Category: Film
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Earlier this year, while writing reviews for Boston Underground Film Festival, the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) had a fascinating title that featured a collection of movie theater pre-movie and intermission programs, as well as some commercials. The film, Hey Folks! It’s the Intermission Time Mixtape, is a non-narrative film, meaning its presentation has no…
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While I was getting my ticket for Pete Davidson’s horror movie, The Home, I told the clerk at the station that I had heard the movie was getting negative reviews. I informed him that I was a film reviewer, and I didn’t expect much from this particular movie. The clerk agreed. “Just from looking at…
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There are few films brazen enough to go where Todd Wiseman Jr’s future-dystopia Florida-set film The School Duel goes. When it comes to the next generation, there’s plenty to discuss, but consistent gun violence against the most vulnerable in the nation never seems to amount to direct change. In the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy…
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Ava Maria Safai’s Foreigner is one of the most unique and exquisitely realized horror films of this or any other century. In ten years’ time, critics will look back on this film and, if they had bashed it, will resolve to tell you their newly formed opinions on it, much like many did with Jennifer’s…
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Back in the mid-nineties, before the internet took off and streaming platforms were even an idea, network television ruled the airwaves, and the world-premiere network movies and multi-night mini-series were landmark events. As an impressionable youngster, this was how I’d get my regular fix of Stephen King-adapted horror. But, on occasion, you’d also get something…
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Welcome back, fellow ranchers! We’re just four episodes left until the end of Season 6. I wonder what kind of hijinks our intrepid researchers will get themselves into this time! At this time, I don’t have much new information in the world of Ufology, but the heat has been turned back up on Lie Elizondo.…
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Welcome back, fellow treasure hunters! I missed you all last week! The only interesting Ufology news I have is nothing but hearsay. While I believe everything I have read, I would prefer to keep Lie Elizondo’s lawyers out of my DMs. So, let’s get right to the bottom of this week’s episode to see if…
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After a one-week hiatus, Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch is back! You may remember that the “Next time on…” for Season 5 Episode 5 “Detonation Threat” was with Duane Ollinger in the excavator, and suffering from a medical emergency. On top of Duane’s emergency, Josh Feldman gets Duane to agree to approach entering the Keyhole…
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Taiwanese horror has been making serious waves over the last few years, with films like The Sadness, Detention, and Incantation tearing up Western streaming charts. One film in particular, The Tag-Along, became the highest-grossing Taiwanese horror film of all time back in 2015, before being dethroned by Incantation in 2022. The Tag-Along, based on the…
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Having released six features since 2021, Alice Maio Mackay is quickly becoming one of the premier auteurs of cult shockers, changing the landscape of horror cinema. Mackay’s punk rock filmmaking style knows no bounds. Throughout these last few years, she has created a universe of monsters, exploring the subgenre stylings of horror, playing with monsterdom,…