Food for the Worm
Liza newsletter on horror films and what they say about the people who can't look away
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 22 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 7 months ago |
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EVERYTHING IS FRANKENSTEIN
Note: There are no spoilers in this, but it does describe some aspects of a movie currently in theaters.
Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac, as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, on the set of Frankenstein (2025). Cr: Netflix.
“Ah, why shou...
SURVIVING SUBURBIA
“I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction—if a house is falling upon you, for instance—one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may…”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Idiot”
The hand of a tee...
In search of The Substance
I was prepared to be critical of The Substance (2024). Sometimes it’s like that. You get too in your head about what it all means and find yourself sitting in the movie theater seat haughtily sipping Diet Coke, eye-rolling at the opening cr...
Something funny happened on the way to the morgue
I recently watched the 1960 black-and-white French horror film Eyes Without a Face at the Metrograph Theater in Manhattan.
The movie follows a doctor and his wife as they attempt to harvest a new face for their daughter, whose own was def...
THIS DOES NOT FEEL LIKE HOME TO ME
Editor’s note: The original version of this essay included a fairytale in the beginning, which, for brevity’s sake, has been moved to the end (‘FINALLY, A FAIRYTALE’). I know this is not something you care about, but this is my Substack and...
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