Antifa allegedly uses inflatable frog costumes as tactical disguises to hide identities while appearing harmless at protests, ...

‘In Florida, people were told to keep the length of a baby alligator apart. So I included a character wearing an alligator mask in my pandemic-themed masked ball’ When Covid started, everybody was ...

Charlie Polinger achieves a lot with relatively little with his feature directorial debut, “The Plague.” Getting a wide release this week, this slice of psychological horror is quite effective despite ...

The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.” The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

William Golding’s 1954 novel “The Lord of the Flies” strands a group of young boys on an island. There, they must fend for themselves, but in the absence of rules and ethics, they devolve into ...

“There's this desire to push boundaries and wreak chaos,” says the director of capturing the liminal tween years in his Cannes Film Festival break-out. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...

Adolescence and horror fit together like peanut butter and jelly. There is something about the natural elevation of emotion that comes with puberty – something we can all remember even if we’re long ...

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ...

Exclusive: Charlie Polinger's first feature premiered at Cannes and stars Joel Edgerton as the head of a water polo camp made up of boys wreaking havoc upon each other. Adolescence, and especially at ...

Ten years ago, the World Health Organization declared a sound injury epidemic, warning that 50% of people ages 12–35 were at risk of permanent hearing damage from recreational noise exposure. One of ...