The streaming era of horror is starting to wear me down.
With Halloween looming closer, both the Sarah Paulson-led “Hold Your Breath” and body-swap blast “It’s What’s Inside” debuted exclusively on Hulu and Netflix, respectively, this October — despite holding their world premieres at Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance. This furthers a recent trend of horror movies bypassing theaters altogether and getting sent straight to streaming — making a select few festival audiences some of the only people to experience these films on the big screen.
With increasingly expensive costs both at movie theaters and for streaming services, the movie-going experience is a lose-lose for financially struggling college students.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was met with online support after being released from prison for the murder of her abusive mother. While her crime can be absolved, can Gen Z's "unseriousness?"
Welcome to "Maia's Inner Monologue," my new column that gives you a peek into the world of my — rather random — passions, scattered thoughts and latest obsessions. Join me on an adventure into all things downright bizarre.
It rests on our collective conscience to avoid the unnecessary exploitation of a generation who cannot yet spell the word privacy — let alone understand its importance.
I finally understood why the series had been such a big hit: it was an authentic and raw display of what it means to be human, all through the exploration of a complicated love story.
The art of storytelling — from books, to plays, to the big screen — is a timeless form of expression, but we cannot lose ourselves to escapism within these narratives.
