England’s infamous Borley Rectory is the inspiration behind Christopher Smith’s latest film, The Banishing. At the heart of the story...
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There was a time when Western horror routinely questioned religions and their followers. This heated subgenre criticized seemingly untouchable organizations...
The intense fear of the unknown is evident in Michael Nader’s directorial debut The Toll. The drive from the airport to her father’s house should have been straightforward, but someone — or something — has different plans in store for both Cami (Jordan Hayes) and her driver Spencer (Max Toplin). It’s...
As Violation premiered at TIFF 2020 and Sundance 2021, co-directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer revealed the inspiration for their debut feature....
There was a time when people lived their lives according to fables, myths, and superstitions. Modern science has almost universally...
Little Marvin and Lena Waithe’s Prime Video series Them reimagines the struggle so many Black Americans have gone — and still go — through in order to just exist. Set in 1950s Los Angeles, a family of four moves from North Carolina to a white neighborhood in East Compton. The...
Society often mistakes phobias as being nothing more than everyday fears or explanations for irrational disgust. In truth, these extreme...
The horror genre has always been unparalleled in how it handles trauma, but even Alex Noyer’s first feature film Sound...
Even in death, there is no peace for the weary or the ones they leave behind. Someone like Jocelin Donahue’s character in Offseason understands this sentiment. Mickey Keating’s new movie follows a lost woman caught in an uncanny situation after rushing off to her late mother’s birthplace. In time, though,...
With more and more growing concern about what all the future has in store for us in these uncertain times,...
“It took my son, and I’ve been fighting him ever since.” A literal hotbed of otherworldly activity is happening beneath...
“We are so tired of being good little girls.“ There being a great deal of coming-of-age stories about religious folks critically questioning their own indoctrination has to mean something. Those having grown up in a secular home may not fully know the ins and outs of that specific situation, but...