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Can you whodunnit when the dunnit is a recurring nightmare and the who is maybe not a who at all?...
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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the...
Fantastical drama Cold Skin tells a tale of loneliness, fear, and humanity in presence of beasts. Isolated at the top of a lighthouse in the Antarctic are two men – trapped by impending madness and creatures that come from the sea. From France, this English-speaking film comes from the genre-familiar hands...
The opening night crowd at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal were treated to the world premiere of Nightmare Cinema....
I’m all about horror films that explore ancient fables and mythical creatures/beings. In Lifechanger, we follow one of these such...
Few horror movies are able to nail a single, lasting image that leaves audiences shuddering in their seats long after the credits roll. For some, that first sentence brings up memories of a subconscious flash of Pazuzu or a the spinning head of young Linda Blair in The Exorcist. Or perhaps more modern...
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Horror Anthologies are hard to nail. Though always entertaining and delightful, few can hold enough steam to carry an audience...
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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...
Few horror films get touted as truly terrifying these days. We’re all either desensitized by violence.. or deterred by Twitter naysayers. (Who still swear that Hereditary undelivered, and The VVitch doesn’t count as horror. Wrong. So wrong.) Argentine horror film Terrified sets a high bar for itself. Who is terrified? The...
Director Nicholas Pesce generated considerable buzz with his directorial debut, The Eyes of my Mother (2016). Now, with Piercing, he...
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For some, a black cat is a bad omen. But in the world of Johannes Nyholm’s (Jätten) newest film, Koko-di...
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Time travel movies are either extremely self-serious or expectedly goofy. Sci-fi films such as Looper and Predestination are dark action films that use time travel to save the world. Comedies such as Groundhog Day and series such as Russian Doll force the protagonists to confront their nasty ways, but through...
