Demonology in Cinema

The Blues as a Door Between Worlds

The Witch as Parasite, the Children as Harvest

The Coagula as Soul-Theft Ritual

The Horror of Finally Belonging

The Demon Isn't Evil — He's Just Following Orders

The Coven Was Always Already in the Building

House Is a Widow's Devouring Grief Disguised as a Haunted Mansion

The House That Jack Built Is a Man Performing Alchemy in Reverse, Turning Gold Back Into Corpses

Harry Angel Is Already Damned When the Film Begins. The Investigation Is the Proof.

Constantine Damns Himself by Trying to Buy Heaven, Then Gets Saved the One Way That Cannot Be Purchased

The Rite Argues That the Only Real Exorcism Is the One Performed on the Exorcist

The Last Exorcism Punishes a Faker by Making the Thing He Faked Real

The Conjuring Is Built on the Doctrine That a House Is a Body and a Family Is a Soul

The Void Is What a Hospital Becomes When a Man Refuses to Let His Daughter Stay Dead

The Mist Is About the Monster That Grows Inside the Store, Not the Ones Outside It

Leviathan Is What Happens When the Refined Man Drinks From the Sea Floor

Glorious Puts a Cosmic God in a Rest Stop Bathroom Because That Is Where You Actually Meet Him

Ninja Scroll Is an Alchemical Poisoning: Jubei Must Drink the Toxin to Become the Cure

Whiplash Is About a Boy Who Sold His Soul for a Tempo and Called It Greatness

The Tragedy of Macbeth Films the Witches as One Body Because the Voice That Tempts You Is Never Actually Outside You

Dogville Is a Controlled Experiment Proving That Ordinary People Will Enslave a Saint the Moment They Learn She Cannot Leave

L'Argent Traces a Forged Bill Until It Becomes a Murder Weapon

Multiverse of Madness Is a Sorcerer Learning That the Only Universe He Cannot Fix Is His Own Grasping

Rabid Is What Happens When You Graft New Flesh Without Asking What It Will Hunger For

Imprint Is a Hell Realm Where Every Kindness Was Already a Cruelty in Disguise

M Is About a City That Hunts Its Own Shadow and Discovers It Cannot Convict It

Häxan Argues That the Witch and the Hysteric Are the Same Woman, Burned by Two Centuries

Inferno Is a Building That Runs on Alchemy, and the Alchemist Is Death

The Beyond Is What Happens When the Gate to Hell Has No Guardian

City of the Living Dead Is an Apocalypse in the Original Sense: a Tearing of the Veil That Cannot Be Sewn Shut

The House by the Cemetery Is About a Family Moving Into Their Own Buried Past

The Exorcist Is Not About a Possessed Girl. It Is About a Priest Who Loses His Faith and Gets It Back by Dying for It

The Omen Is About How Evil Survives by Being Institutionally Convenient

Mia Became the Thing She Summoned

The Wish to Be Loved Without Being Chosen