For me, the purpose of art is to come to grips with the demons of the past, present, and future; to give form to chaos; to enable us to process fear; and to conceive of a different, more humane future.
Night of the Living Dead centers all the action at a farmhouse, where seven people attempt to ward off the ghouls — without any prior knowledge of how to do so.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.
The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.
Such a designation, evidently, would save agents from wasting time chasing phantoms.
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Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
Just in time for Halloween, the sonic phantoms that have long plagued the ladies of The View have seemingly possessed inanimate objects over on the Live With Kelly and Mark set.
See-through specters haunt the backstage area of the Muppet theater, a Muppet News report warns of man-eating furniture, and Kermit turns the tables on Price during a long talk about acting by sprouting fangs and biting the horror icon’s neck.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
African diasporic people’s contentious history with these formations of motherhood create specters of separation as reproductive injustice.
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