Cole Geissler, a tropical horticulturist at the UConn Botanical Conservatory on Thursday. He stands next to an over 4-foot tall corpse flower that is about to bud. Photo by Kevin Guinan/Staff Writer ...

UPDATE: See the blooming flower in the photo gallery below, photographed April 14, 2026. In 2023, when Tom Clark walked into the botanic garden at Mount Holyoke College, he could smell titan arum, ...

For fans of Tim Burton’s iconic gothic romance, the Corpse Bride Skullector is a must‑have addition to any collection. Inspired by the beloved stop‑motion film Corpse Bride, this limited‑style ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers ...

Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...

Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

He’s a reanimated corpse, cursed to wander the land in a state of existential misery for centuries! She’s a former moll for a two-bit gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You ...

It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a movie that, to me, ...

The Bride! arrives this week, and the delay in its release—it was originally slated for fall 2025—makes perfect sense. That’s not just because the shift put distance between Guillermo del Toro’s ...

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

A doctor uses an initial instead of her first name when publishing academic papers, in order to conceal her gender and be taken seriously as a scientist. A woman who works as the secretary to a male ...