When horror is done right, terrifying, heart-stopping horror, it grabs every one of your senses and makes you hyper-aware of all of them. It lays in wait, biding its time and revealing just enough throughout until the story comes crashing together at the end. It has a grounding in something real and human so that the horror feels even more imminent. Considering that definition, it's not an exaggeration to say that Hereditary is horror done perfectly.

For a period, you think you can call…

Like a lot of the other depraved from my generation, Final Destination means so much to me. It is not only the reason I became enamored with horror. It is the reason I became enamored with movies. It is the reason I watch movies like a puzzle to be solved, whether a prestige drama or a silly franchise about people dying in increasingly wicked ways.

So when I heard that FD was returning, I fell to my knees. And when…

Although it takes place over a single day, Sinners is about centuries. It's about the foundations of our culture, our country and our world. It's about how the trauma of hate and division crosses time, boundaries and races like an illness that can destroy what we love—and how joy is the antidote. That's a lot of thematic heft for a movie that is in equal parts a folk horror, western drama, Blaxploitation thriller, quasi-musical and, oh yeah, a vampire movie.…