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...
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Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion of the penultimate safe space. The perfect cocktail for horror. Keith Thomas’ The Vigil takes that classic, terrifying format and drops it right in the center of an Orthodox Jewish...
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...
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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 on everyone’s sunny day like a thick, heavy vat of hot tar. The film tells the story of a young girl, hidden away from the world by well-meaning but ill-prepared...
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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...
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Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson family in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, and we all know true crime obsession with cults has gripped the cultural zeitgeist. So how can a film stick out from...
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...
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What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this very question as a destitute Korean family tries to climb their way to some semblance of economic success. But to achieve that success, they must lie and cheat their way...
