Meg Shields

Based in the Pacific North West, Meg enjoys long scrambles on cliff faces and cozying up with a good piece of 1960s eurotrash. As a senior contributor at FSR, Meg's objective is to spread the good word about the best of sleaze, genre, and practical effects.
The Good Place

How ‘The Good Place’ Made a Modern Hell of Technocracy

By Meg Shields 

Hell is other algorithms.

Clue

The Goofball’s Guide to Surviving a Whodunit

By Meg Shields 

5 farcical ensemble whodunits that take the piss out of Murder On the Orient Express.

horror anthology Twilight Zone Rabbit

13 Essential Horror Anthologies

By Meg Shields 

Time to cram some high-density spooks into your Halloween queue.

Satanic Panic Syllabus

The Satanic Panic: A Cinematic Syllabus

By Meg Shields 

Your essential guide to giving Lucifer a film history high five before Halloween.

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Amazon’s ‘Lore’ and the Gains and Losses of Adapting Podcasts

By Meg Shields 

Just in time for Halloween, Lore brings together three of life’s greatest pleasures: podcasts, horror anthologies, and debates about when adaptations are justified.

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Serendipity, Sci-Fi, and Silliness: The Holistic Hijinx of ‘Dirk Gently’

By Meg Shields 

Why Dirk Gently should be your go-to small-screen sci-fi for interconnectedness, coincidence, and the rarer, sexier coinky-dinks.

Blade Runner

What I’ve Seen With Your Eyes: The Influences of ‘Blade Runner’

By Meg Shields 

From architects to comic strips: How Blade Runner blends media to create postmodern poetry.

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As Tom Cruise Gets Older, His On-Screen Love Interests Stay the Same Age

By Meg Shields 

Tom Cruise has an age gap problem and it mirrors Hollywood’s bias against older actresses.

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TIFF 2017 Review: ‘Marrowbone’ Blends Sumptuous Visuals with Gothic Spooks

By Meg Shields 

In his directorial debut, the screenwriter of The Orphanage delivers a suspenseful, twisty slow-burn horror.