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STORY OF THE SHOT
THE INSIDE TRACK ON DAVI D LYNCH’S MOST TERRIFYING SCE
A war of nerves
Aristocratic scaring
Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth
Creature feature
ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,
MIDWAY THROUGH MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY, the title character stares into the camera and warns: “You shouldn’t be watching this.” He’s talking to two strangers who’ve interrupted him in the bloody af