Horror
Interesting. My last review (Nightsiren) was about a woman returning to her remote village where the citizens treat her with disdain. Similarly, Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You also features a woman living in a town where the inhabitants don’t seem to care for her presence. At all. And like Nightsiren, the reasons are […]
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Where does the horror lie in Tereza Nvotová’s Nightsiren? Is it in the supposed curse that has followed Šarlota (Natalia Germani) from her childhood to the present day? Or is it embodied in the inhabitants of her secluded town to which she’s returned after a twenty-year absence? Is it the witch rumored to live in […]
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What are movies at their very basic but images projected on a screen with accompanying sound? It’s just light reflected into our eyes. But it takes a gifted filmmaker to use every inch of that canvas and every decibel afforded to them, and to use it well. Ari Aster is one such filmmaker, whose stories, […]
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To put it bluntly, Renfield isn’t a game-changer, nor is it earth-shattering, but it’s fun enough to warrant a quick stop at your local movie theater. It’s a setup we’ve seen in countless comedies and action films before, where one member of a toxic relationship tries their best to get out of it. But to […]
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“You’re not Woodsboro,” someone says to an outsider in Scream VI at a pivotal moment. Which, of course, would mean something had not only half of the six Scream films taken place in the fictional town of Woodsboro, where all the mayhem started twenty-seven years ago. Especially since one of the main characters in all […]
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Look. You’re either going to watch or not watch Cocaine Bear simply because of the title. Much like Snakes on a Plane or Sharknado before it, what it says on the tin is exactly what you’ll get: A black bear goes on a coke-fueled rampage. What the title doesn’t tell you is this 95-minute late-night […]
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Calling itself “an unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD series,” Fabián Forte’s Legions (original Spanish title: Legiones) is content to take a completely different approach altogether to the fight against the undead: playing it absolutely straight. That’s not to say there’s no physical comedy or gore in the film; on the contrary, there […]
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When the trailer for M3GAN smashed onto the internet in October 2022, it was an immediate hit. A story about a life-size AI doll charged with protecting an orphaned child from anything, including other kids? And it also danced? There was nothing that social media didn’t love about it, turning shot sequences from the trailer […]
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Who knew the V/H/S series would be as fun as it is? After ten years, a new band of writers and directors have kept this franchise going… and have actually improved upon it. With a tighter and more hilarious frame story – which eventually dovetails into the usual band of hooligans doing hooligan shit – and […]
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The Blackening : Movie Review
The posters for The Blackening might make this horror-comedy look like a horror spoof along the lines of the Scary Movie series or something like Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th… and you’d be very, very wrong if you think that. Quite possibly one of the funniest of its kind […]
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