HT reviewer Prahlad Srihari picks his favourite reads of 2023
After 2020’s moody chiller Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia returned withSilver Nitrate, an intoxicating tale about childhood best friends, one a talented sound editor and the other a washed-up soap star, seeking a long-lost horror film haunted by a curse. The search leads the pair into a netherworld of Nazi occultism and quite literal movie magic. The complementary points of view of two brown-skinned film nerds deepen its exploration into how white supremacists co-opted the practices of people of colour and how…