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Conceived, created, and cobbled together all under Covid-19 lockdown measures in Britain, Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth was unleashed on the...
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Every time I’ve sat down to watch the psychedelic cinematography of Alejandro Jodorowsky, it has been a life-changing experience. From...
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Frida Kempff’s psychological thriller Knocking (Knackningar) is an eerie and unsettling tale of mental illness that takes the viewer deep inside the mind of an unstable narrator. The film bends and twists reality in small believable ways until you realize you’ve been under the same spell as your lead the whole time....
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While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the...
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In a time when most of us can relate to themes of loneliness and isolation perhaps more than ever, the...
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[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into the vibrant, violent world of the Video Nasties. As a North American, “Video Nasties” were something I didn’t learn about until well after the British censorship craze has cooled. Heck,...
Why are you screaming? I haven’t even written anything yet. It’s The RETURN month here at Nightmare on Film Street,...
DESCRIPTION: When there’s no more room in horror movie hell, the remakes will walk the earth! On this week’s episode...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music and culture. Since the beginning of this column, I’ve wanted to cover anything by cult director Alex Cox, whether it’d be the toxic love story of Sid and Nancy, the...
I have been admiring Steven Kostanski’s work for years without even knowing it. All this time I was admiring the...
[Editor’s Note: Welcome back, Fiends! If you haven’t already read Chris’s Poor Decisions of Polarizing Remakes – Part One, go...
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Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say is pretty accurate. From the mad mind of Canadian shlockmeister Steven Kostanski (The Void, Leprechaun Returns) comes a heartwarming tale about family and intergalactic warlords, courtesy of the good people...
