The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/melison)
Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn. megelison.com
As the sage Lil Wayne once said, there are two ways to make art: be good or be good at it. A film does not have to be innovative or even have anything new to say for audiences to respond. This film is neither good nor good at it. I didn’t want to sing along, so here I am to heckle.
We were finally finding a way into the grooves of the Akashic record: the information superhighway was the Force, it was the oversoul, and we paid for it by the minute. One of the very first things I ever searched for on Alta Vista was Witchcraft.
With its right hand Eggers’s Nosferatu points at all the sex it can, but its left invokes the imagery and the uncanny nature of folk magic.
There are those who say a witch is born and others who insist a witch is made. This film suggests a third option: that witchcraft can come upon a person as unbidden and inevitable as puberty, and as impossible to understand.
Dickens expressed a general mistrust for organized religion, an admiration for Jesus Christ, and a social commentary that pointed out the corrosive effect of the Catholic church on personal liberty. Does this remind anyone else of every Pagan they’ve ever known?
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