Category: Film
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Bring Her Back is the second feature film from Directors Danny and Michael Philippou, following their 2022 hit debut, Talk to Me. The latter film received worldwide acclaim, grossing $92 million against a budget of $4.5 million, and became A24’s highest-grossing film to date. It told an allegorical story about addiction and the dangers of drug abuse.…
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Train to Busan’s breakout badass Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-Seok) continues his action movie hot streak, following up his fourth Roundup franchise film (four more are on the way) with Holy Night: Demon Hunters. A rough and tumble brawler flick with a bit of a genre kick. Lee plays Ba Woo, a niche private investigator endowed…
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Indie horror projects often surprise me with the level of creative ingenuity on display. Many of these movies get overlooked by the broad majority of movie enthusiasts, but we–the Tubi hunters and physical media bargain bin super-divers of the genre—know there are more than a few diamonds in the rough just looking to be found…
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Final Destination: Bloodlines’ opening sequence features a 1960s restaurant in a tower hundreds of feet up in the air. Iris (Stargirl’s Brec Bassinger), a young woman on a date with her boyfriend, is hesitant to enter the building. Pushing past her mental reservations, she squeezes into an overcrowded elevator (max occupants 8 adults). The bellhop…
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Watch out, David Howard Thornton, there’s a new killer clown on the block…errr… cornfield. Frendo the Clown steps off the pages of Adam Cesare’s book and onto the silver screen for a gory little slice of Mayberry terror. Clown in a Cornfield is now terrorizing moviegoers all over the country, claiming the fifth spot at…
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For the final bit of Salem Horror Fest coverage, a week after the festival has now concluded, I wanted to bring readers’ attention to Conor Soucy’s electrifying short film, The Conduit. Winner of the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Salem Horror Fest 8, The Conduit is a taut, white-knuckle experience that utilizes the…
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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…