Jim Shady, Author at Wolfbane Blooms

September 21, 2025

Shady’s List of the Truly Terrifying: Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, Or, Why the Denial of Pleasure Is So Pleasurable

October 26, 2017 Jim Shady 4

Jaws… What can old Shady say about the big fish that hasn’t already been said? Well, here’s one thing that’s always struck me about Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic. For a movie that’s all about a ⤇

Shady’s List of the Truly Terrifying: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Or, Horror’s Uncertainty Principle

October 2, 2017 Jim Shady 0

I begin my list of Truly Terrifying movies with Stanley Kubrick’s much-loved, much-loathed 1980 film, The Shining, simply because its weaving together of creepy-as-fuck modernist music with claustrophobic, low-angle camera work and the classic tropes ⤇