Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on...
96.25%
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
95%
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...
78.75%
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
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Shark movies. It’s kind of hard to mess them up. You take your camera-happy (or shy, if you’re Steven Spielberg) sharks,...
70%
The deadly game that destroyed the lives of five high school students is far from over in the first half of Light as a Feather‘s sophomore season. Except this time, the death curse has been passed on to someone else. And the only way to save the new host is...
There are few villains as iconic as The Ring’s Sadako. With her contorted crawl, low crackling growl, and waterfall of front-flipped...
73.75%
Pizza, Satan, and secret societies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a horror-cocktail more universally inviting. It’s no surprise Chelsea Stardust’s...
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It only took one film for comedy veteran Jordan Peele to become Horror’s darling. Get Out catapulted him into an overnight sensation; turning heads and ticket sales, with hushed voices whispering “the new Hitchcock” to any uninformed earhole. The film also created a seat at the table for Peele – and...
Who says the season of scares ends after Halloween? When you really think about it, Christmas is terrifying. And the...
A last-minute addition to the 2018 Fantastic Fest schedule, Richard Shepard’s The Perfection was definitely not a hard decision. Fitting right...
Before even seeing The Wind, it had already garnered originality points. A slow and subtle period piece, described as a “Horror Western”. I’d booked my screening with TIFF before the trailer had even dropped, so I essentially pictured The Others with Nicole Kidman trading out a set of skeleton keys...
