Ali Cook’s The Pearl Comb arrives at a moment when genre filmmaking feels increasingly bloated, reminding audiences that horror, intelligent horror, still has the capacity to be intimate, layered, and ...

Michael Casper sticks a label on an aluminum foil lid. It’s 5:45 p.m. on a Friday night in November. Soon, volunteers will arrive at the restaurant-grade kitchen in a Northeast Portland church ...

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The Little Mermaid” it is not. “The Pearl Comb,” the haunting, occasionally chilling, deftly polemical directorial debut of British actor and writer Ali Cook, is a short film set in an English coastal ...