There are few villains as iconic as The Ring’s Sadako. With her contorted crawl, low crackling growl, and waterfall of front-flipped...
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Anyone with a toe in the world of social media can tell you it’s rife with horror potential. Most of...
Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real is a psychological horror that pits a fragile young man against himself and the horrors of his own psyche. The film stars Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger as an odd couple on the verge of insanity. in my spoiler-free review of the film, I called Daniel Isn’t Real “[a...
Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real was an official selection at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival, and quite possibly one of the...
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night was the sleeper hit of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. While the film celebrated...
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Going into a movie blind is my favorite way to discover a film. Nowadays, we carry spoiler boxes in our back pocket – making blind discovery a rare occurrence. We’re so inundated with tweets, reactions, and feedback to films that haven’t even come out yet, it seems some of us...
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Porno is an absolutely hilarious little movie from director Keola Racela about a group of born-again Christian teens under the spell...
The campfire is lit, marshmallows are toasting, and there’s a chill in the air. You and your friends hush to...
Tucked between the groundbreaking documentaries and independent features that always come to the Tribeca Film Festival are a series of short films that defy any sense of normalcy. Branded the ‘genre’ section of Tribeca’s short film menu, these small masterpieces explore humanity in ways that only science-fiction, horror, and fantasy...
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Of all the species of monsters out there, the plant-based kind is especially overlooked. To me, that’s a travesty. I...
Not a lot happens in a place like Harburg, Pennsylvania. Life moves at a slow pace, very little ever changes,...
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A unique achievement of crowdfunded filmmaking, The Unthinkable is an indie disaster movie with the feel of a big budget Hollywood production. But the Swedish film has a character-driven story and surprisingly slow burn pace that speaks to its Scandinavian sensibilities. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it...
