The director Sophia Takal is updating a misogynistic slasher film for the MeToo era. Her producer, Jason Blum, of Blumhouse Productions, talks about the success of horror movies with a political or social message. Simon Parkin shares a story about “deepfakes” that sounds like something out of “Black Mirror”—except that it took place in London earlier this year. And a cartoonist offers his appreciation of the Addams Family: a pitch-dark satire of suburban America that became one of the most beloved cartoons of all time.
Sophia Takal’s “Black Christmas”
A young director revisits a nineteen-seventies slasher film, with toxic masculinity and the MeToo movement in mind.
The Producer Jason Blum on Horror with a Message
Blumhouse Productions is spearheading a new crop of horror films with political and social import, like Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.”
“The Scariest Story Ever Told”
The only thing scarier than a hidden killer, a ghost, a homicidal drifter, or a haunted doll is all four at the same time.
In a Deepfakes World, You’ll Never Know Who’s Calling You
A heist story that sounds like a technological thriller—except that it happened this year, to a hapless executive in London. And it could happen to you.
Charles Addams’s American Family
Addams set out to write a pitch-dark satire of suburban life, and ended up creating one of the most beloved cartoons of all time.
