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At this point in 2019, we can agree that horror is, or at least can be, political. New director Orçun...
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Pumpkin spice is back at your favorite coffee shop. Plastic pumpkins and skeleton fill the aisles of craft stores. Spirit...
What puts the ‘haunt’ in a haunted house for you? Is it small spaces? Creepy crawlers? Morphed rooms? Masked monsters? A depraved man with a chainsaw? Haunted houses, and the more modern alternative of extreme haunts, are an annual opportunity to place yourself in the throes of artificial peril. The...
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It all starts with a little girl wanting a chocolate ice cream cone and ends with a showdown of epic...
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Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion...
This past July, I wrote a piece on punk rockers in genre films, and how a new generation of filmmakers who grew up within the punk community are injecting the subculture into their films and its characters. Jovanka Vuckovic is the latest newcomer on the scene and her feature-length debut...
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Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
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Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
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In the face of prevalent everyday violence, desperate people search from something to blame. Grasping at straws, they blame video games for inspiring shootings, stating their simulated violence infiltrate the minds of youth. This claim is ridiculous, which is why director Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm) stretches it to the ultimate...
We all have a monster inside us. Whether it be something we’re not proud of, an insecurity, a secret, or...
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Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson...
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on an Irish fishing trawler) with pure fantasy (sea creatures and some quite literally eye-opening effects!) and asks you to believe in both. The film follows a marine biology student (Hermione...
