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?...
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It all starts with a little girl wanting a chocolate ice cream cone and ends with a showdown of epic proportions. Like an X-Men film but with more heart, Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky’s film Freaks offers a new look at the mutant-humans-fighting-for-rights genre that focuses on emotional beats to...
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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...
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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 vs evil” theme, running barely as thick as a bowl of a 69-cent can of soup. Saint Maud, the debut feature film from Rose Glass, instead dances a terrifying and...
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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...
We all have a monster inside us. Whether it be something we’re not proud of, an insecurity, a secret, or something darker, that monster grows from the inside out. These factors are ones cultivated from a lesser notion, seeds planted deep within ourselves, and it is only a matter of...
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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...
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On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular board game of the same name. After 34 years, that film not only remains hilarious (Flames! On the side of my face!), but it also feels socially relevant in ways...
