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During one of the many film festivals I covered last year, a production still of a young First Nations Australian girl with long black hair and piercing white eyes standing in front of a curtain became one of the most haunting, artistic images ever to sear itself onto my brain. It’s a photograph that’s hard…
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If I were to share with you the list of my most anticipated films of 2025, Izzy Lee’s House of Ashes would be circling the top of that list. Izzy Lee is the kind of director with a fearless eye for horror, often taking a politicized issue and intelligently contorting it to something even more…
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This year’s Salem Horror Fest theme is “The Horror Within,” stories and truths about ourselves we haven’t yet entertained, the fundamental aspect of identity, and who we are to ourselves and others. All of the films I’ve seen over the festival weekend massively embody the theme on personal levels, but Get Super Rad’s (Directing duo…
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Influencer horror is probably the subgenre that has taken me the most time adjusting to, but it is absolutely one that is on the rise. Movies like Influencer, #ChadGetsTheAxe, The Seed, Sissy, and Deadstream have blown up over the past few years telling stories about what’s beneath the veneer of internet personalities. My biggest gripe…
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It’s exciting to see where the horror genre is these days, especially in places all over the world. However, it seems that one Southeast Asian region is specifically embracing it, pumping out some seriously formidable horror titles. With its catalog of horror films growing significantly over the last decade, Vietnam is emerging as a force…
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When word of an Until Dawn movie came to light last year, there was a lot of buzz. The PlayStation game, beloved by fans all over the globe, seemed perfectly suited for a horror adaptation. The story of a snowed-in mountaintop retreat where monsters, a masked flamethrower-wielding psycho, a sanatorium, and a collapsed mine all…
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The Little Mermaid dissolving into sea foam, the Evil Queen dancing in a pair of red-hot shoes, and Sleeping Beauty being sexually assaulted and giving birth to twins—these original versions of our modern fairy tales were far from cheerful. In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt adds her dark twist to the story of…
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At the prehistoric dawn of the internet era, back in the days of AOL dial-up, burned CDs, and independent film renaissance, Artisan films took a chance on a longshot title with no-name actors shooting on a handheld camera. The Blair Witch Project cost an eerily low $35,000 to produce, but an aggressive and strategic marketing…
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The American novelist Mary Flannery O’Connor was known for her Southern Gothic morality tales. They mixed Christian Spirituality, moral values, and racial issues. From Dusk Till Dawn also explores faith. It is heavily more focused on the vampiric bloodshed in the latter half of the film, though. Take these two art pieces, throw some sweat,…
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Welcome back, fellow treasure hunters! We’ve finally reached the end of Season 3 of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch. This season has ebbed and flowed with quality, which is clearly brought on by Eric Drummond’s absence. Ryan Skinner added another level of exaggeration that, combined with James Keenan, makes the show fall into Oak Island…