THE DARK HALL • ARCHIVE
Rankings, essays, arguments, and whatever else Management lets through the door.
LATEST FEATURE • HALLOWEEN COMMENTARY
The Monitor looks back at neighborhood Halloween adventures and makes the case for bringing back house-to-house trick-or-treating.
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The Monitor looks back at neighborhood Halloween adventures and makes the case for bringing back house-to-house trick-or-treating, without giving up Trunk or Treat.
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The Monitor looks at how Tim Robinson and David Lynch use awkwardness, absurdity, and wrong-feeling human behavior for two very different effects.
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The Monitor takes on the impossible and lines up three actors who could actually step into the burned glove of Freddy Krueger.
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The Monitor explores why horror movies can become a strangely effective comfort object when the lights go out.
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The Monitor takes on the hype surrounding Curry Barker’s breakout horror hit and asks whether great-for-now is the same thing as all-time great.
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The Monitor counts down The Dark Hall’s definitive slasher list from #25 to #1.