Category: Film
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If you’re a hardcore horror fan, you know the name Alexandre Aja. Sure, not all of his movies are bangers (I’m looking at you, The Hills Have Eyes remake), but he’s definitely made a name for himself in the genre. I especially enjoy his 2019 animal-attack film Crawl, so when I heard he was back…
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I’ve had my eye on The Shade for a while. I first heard about this film a few months ago when I saw the trailer, and I thought it looked pretty interesting. I immediately put it on my to-watch list (yes, I keep an actual list), so you can imagine my excitement when I received…
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Before we get into this week’s episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, I’ll be frank with you, I’ve never understood algorithms. You like a few photos of furries on Twitter and somehow you’re served countless photos of furries strewn between UAP/UFO news. (The furries thing is a joke, but I still don’t understand how…
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Hype is a dangerous thing. It can ruin even the best of movies, so when The Substance started garnering rave reviews, I tried my best to remain cautiously optimistic. But I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t easy. This is being hailed as one of the best horror films of the year, and one critic…
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In the spirit of Fear Street, or The Dark Pictures Anthology games, comes the Fresh Hell Presents, three back-to-back releases from writer/director Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills). Armstrong has taken a trio of recurring horror themes to form an informal trilogy loosely connected through their location and a few scenes. The first film on the ambitious…
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As a hardcore horror fan, I watch a lot of innocent people get tortured, tormented, and killed by everything from otherworldly monsters to little old ladies. That’s just how the genre typically works, but every once in a while, a film like The Deserving flips the script on us. This time, the killer is the…
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When JP Nunez and I did our introductory article for FrightFest, we had a feast of horror titles to sort through and whittle down to five that each of us couldn’t contain our excitement for. Scarlet Blue was one of the first I picked. Aurélia Mengin’s sublime color use of reds and blues, mixing a…
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At first blush, I might not seem like the best guy to review the Speak No Evil remake. I wasn’t a big fan of the 2022 Danish original, so I initially had zero interest in this new American version. I started to come around when the early reactions and reviews came out. Not only did…
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In real life, I’m not a fan of cults or evil entities, but if you give me a movie about either of those things, I’ll happily eat it up. And if a film includes both of them, I’ll be chomping at the bit to see it, so when I first heard about Voice of Shadows,…
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Last year, one hundred and nineteen million Americans became enthralled by true crime podcasts, according to Audiochuck and Edison Research. Our cultural obsession with the brutal acts of others can be almost as curious as the acts themselves. Is the devil in the details, or are we just caught up in the web of intrigue…