Horror
Until Dawn throws everything at its heroes in this time-looping horrorfest, and you can tell director David F. Sandberg’s having a lot of fun in the director’s chair.
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Here’s what you need to know about Death of a Unicorn: It’s a modern fairytale, replete with arch characterizations and storylines straight out of a Brothers Grimm collection. After suffering a grievous loss, our underdog heroes are forced into a situation by more moneyed and evil superiors that makes them consider their principles carefully. When […]
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The enveloping, engrossing Longlegs and the darkness within it are still fresh in my mind as I write this, my second-ever review of an Osgood Perkins film. However, if Perkins was flexing his ‘80s Satanic Panic muscles with Longlegs, consider his adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Monkey to be his twisted version of […]
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Heart Eyes is a sparklingly fiendish delight, a funny and winning combination of the best and cringiest characteristics of modern romantic comedies and slasher films. It’s a perfect blend of holiday-themed masked killer fare and the fast-patter interplay of Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday, all rolled up into a rippingly-paced madhouse of a chase movie. […]
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The beauty and simplicity of the horror tale The Damned lie in its uncomplicated conceit of the invasion of an isolated space. Many films like this have come before, and others will come after, but director Thordur Palsson – working from a lean yet powerful script by Jamie Hannigan – makes a brilliant entry into […]
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Going willingly into You Are Not Me (original Spanish title: Tú no eres yo) is to jump straight into a basket of tension that never empties, right from the opening airport scene to the final cut to black. But you’re also signing up to stay in that basket with few chances of reprieve or payoff, as writers/directors […]
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“I live in the weak and the wounded… Doc.” — Mary Hobbes This quote from Brad Anderson’s criminally underseen and underappreciated Session 9 kept coming to me throughout my viewing of Smile 2. I could almost hear Jurian Hughes’ eerily disjointed voice winding its way through my mind, especially considering the themes of trauma that […]
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I’m going to put this right up front: I’m a fan of the V/H/S anthologies, the same way I’m a massive fan of horror stories told around campfires and short horror collections, like Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark or Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew. Quick doses of horror that build to an […]
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There’s something fiendish about the way Jason Yu’s film Sleep (original Korean title: 잠 [Jam]) operates. A strong case is built for untoward and spooky goings-on, but the staggering amount of ambiguity Yu builds into his script and visuals asks a little more of us than expecting easily resolved conflict. The meat of Sleep is […]
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For 45 years, two cinematic creatures have brought terror to movie theaters and TV screens all over the world. First seen in Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, the ovomorph (known generally as the facehugger) and the xenomorph were nightmares brought to hellish life. To quote one of that film’s characters, the xenomorph is “the perfect organism. […]
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