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October is, historically, a month full of an overwhelming amount of horror content to watch and enjoy as the Halloween...
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The hi-octane scare sequence is a horror fan’s dream. Nothing gets your blood ringing in your ears quite like a...
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In the turmoil-fueled hellscape that is 2020, I’ve found myself more than ever turning to movies (and specifically, horror movies) for escape. That snapshot into an alternate reality where anything is possible and where the cruelties we see played out on CNN seemingly every morning are given further context or...
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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the...
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You might think comedy is the genre for “weird families,” but I’d argue it’s horror. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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The uncomfortable silence of an awkward pause, the suspicion that someone might be talking about you when you leave the room, the isolating feeling of not belonging; these fairly common experiences are the staples of many a high school hallway, work party, or frenemy gathering. But they also are the...
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Plague doctors are due for a resurgence. And no, I’m not saying that because we’re six months into the pandemic...
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Can you whodunnit when the dunnit is a recurring nightmare and the who is maybe not a who at all?...
Joining the tradition of the stalker horror subgenre, specifically the “lady stalker” theme of films like Misery and Fatal Attraction, is Directer Zach Gayne’s Homewrecker, currently running at the 2020 Virtual Edition of the Chattanooga Film Festival. It’s a tightly structured, darkly comic, and effectively uncomfortable horror film that, while...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
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Mirrors, creepy children, and demons: a recipe for a decent, if not groundbreaking, horror movie. Behind You (2020) is the story...
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[Sorta SXSW Review] REMINISCENCES OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION is a Melancholy Nontraditional Ghost Story
Among the many excellent short films set to be showcased at the now-canceled SXSW 2020 was Dean Colin Marcial’s Reminceses of the Green Revolution, a beautiful, reflective meditation on love, youth, and death in early 2000s Philippines. The film was set to open the Narrative Shorts Program Block 1 at...
