There are many things to love about Aislinn Clarke. She is the very first woman to direct a feature-length horror...
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An eating disorder threatens to consume a young jazz singer in Samantha Smith’s Shapeless. Celebrating its world premiere at 2021...
57.5%
A menacing figure. A group of unsuspecting young adults. A prominent weapon of choice. A real, relevant setting, and a lesson to learn. All of these factors combine to create the genetic makeup of horror’s most renowned subgenre: The Classic Slasher. Whether these flicks stand for meaningful allegories that bring...
As someone who’s a parent, an aunty, a teaching assistant in a primary school and an art technician in a...
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There is no shortage of horror films that center around cults. The word “cult” alone sparks immediate intrigue, and it...
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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,...
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Can you whodunnit when the dunnit is a recurring nightmare and the who is maybe not a who at all?...
Directed by Lee Cronin, The Hole in the Ground is an Irish supernatural horror film acquired by infamous indie studio, A24. The...
From troubling transformations to insidious implications, body horror taps into our most base-level fears. The concept of being trapped inside a flesh prison, or warped into a new one entirely, truly plays on the very means of our existence, spinning new existential dread from within a gelatinous hellscape. Consider then,...
Being queer is pretty cool, but also pretty exhausting. As you search to find yourself in film, television, books, and...
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Thanks to horror movies, I’ve become more and more suspicious of high society-types and what depraved acts might take place...
67.5%
Kyle Edward Ball’s experimental debut feature Skinamarink is an eerie, elongated nightmare plucked straight from the mind of your childhood self. Shot in a way that looks more like a collection of hyper-specific memories rather than a movie, it’s a dread-fueled trip into the lives of two children trying to make...
