Author: JP Nunez
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Look at that featured image up there. If you’re a horror fan, you’re almost guaranteed to find that picture irresistible, so it should come as no surprise that I was instantly intrigued by I Will Never Leave You Alone. I’m a sucker for anything ghostly or monstrous, so even before I knew what this movie…
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As I said in our FrightFest curtain raiser, I love movies about people who love movies. For example, I’m a big fan of Scream, The Monster Squad, and The Final Girls, so it should come as no surprise that Test Screening grabbed my attention the minute I heard about it. The name alone sounded like…
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You always want to start a film festival on a good note, so when I had to choose which FrightFest screener to watch first, it was a no-brainer. Broken Bird wasn’t just one of my most anticipated movies of the entire festival. It was also FrightFest’s opening film, so I figured it had to be…
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I love multiverse stories. I just find the idea of alternate realities utterly fascinating, so films like Coherence, Deadpool & Wolverine, and From Beyond are right up my alley. I’m always down to watch a movie that explores this mind-boggling concept, so when I first heard about the found-footage film Hostile Dimensions, it immediately caught…
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In the world of super low-budget horror, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody more beloved than the Adams family, and I don’t mean Gomez and Morticia. I’m talking about the filmmaking team of Toby Poser, her husband John Adams, and their kids. They’ve made some of the best indie horror flicks in recent memory, like…
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My love of music is one of the few things that can rival my love of horror, so it should come as no surprise that Art of a Hit caught my attention the minute I heard about it. It’s a horror film about a fictional rock band from the ‘90s, and as a huge fan…
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If you ask a group of hardcore horror fans to recommend some fun zombie or vampire films, they probably won’t have much trouble rattling off a list a mile long. But if you ask them to name a few good Wendigo flicks, you’ll get little more than a bunch of blank stares. Sure, they might…
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When most hardcore horror fans think of Italian genre cinema, they probably call to mind famous gialli like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Blood and Black Lace, but if you dig a bit deeper, you’ll see that this amazing country has also given us some of the best witch movies of all time.…
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It wasn’t all that long ago that fans were wondering what Neon’s two mysterious 2024 horror movies, Longlegs and Cuckoo, would be about. The company was playing their cards close to the chest with these titles, and that marketing strategy seems to have worked. It helped make Longlegs a surprisingly big hit, and while we’ll…
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We’ve all seen films about hitmen before. Hell, just a few months ago, Netflix released a movie called Hit Man, and it proved to be a big success. These contract killers have been a cinematic mainstay for decades, so at first blush, it might not seem wise to make an entire anthology film about them.…