Category: Film
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In 1974, a moment in Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter made our hearts stop as Charlotte Rampling saw Dirk Bogarde at the desk of the Vienna hotel she was staying in. Any audience watching, knowing what the picture was about, remembers it vividly as it sends Rampling’s character, Lucia, into a spiral of trauma. Bogarde’s…
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Good werewolf films are notoriously hard to find. Sure, there are a handful of diamonds in the rough, but they’re few and far between. For some reason, this subgenre is just awash in mediocrity, so I’ve been pretty down about it for the past several years. But when I first heard about Blackout, I felt…
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It seems as if we’re celebrating an arachnid Spring in horror this year. Wyrmwood director Kiah Roache-Turner’s Sting is about to spread the creepy crawlies in theaters next week (April 12). Then there’s Chandler Riggs’ horror take on Spider-Man, The Spider, a fan-made film garnering widespread attention for an imminent YouTube direct release. And finally,…
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I have to be honest, I can’t say I’ve been terribly excited for The First Omen. Sure, I love the original The Omen just like everyone else, but do we really need to know more about Damien’s backstory? I wasn’t convinced that we did. In fact, I was concerned that the movie might tell us…
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I hate spiders. With a burning passion. I hate all bugs, but spiders are the worst. There’s just something about them that grosses me out in the worst way possible, so like any self-respecting arachnophobic horror fan, I’ve been dying to see Sting ever since I first heard about it. I couldn’t wait to confront…
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What’s the measure of a good horror film? According to some people, it’s the killer Bs: blood, boobs, and F-bombs (that last one technically starts with an F, but you get the picture). In other words, horror movies need to be rated R, and if they’re just PG-13, there’s no point in even making them.…
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David Lynch’s 1997 noir film, Lost Highway, featuring an embarrassing amount of Marylin Manson, is at least Wikipedially about jazz musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), who murders his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette), whom he suspects of having an affair with porn facilitator and pimp Andy (Michael Massee). While awaiting execution, Fred falls into a psychogenic…
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I’ve been deliriously excited for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Not only am I a huge kaiju fanatic, but this film also features two of my favorite fictional characters of all time, so I couldn’t wait to see them team up to face a threat neither one could defeat alone. I bought a ticket…
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After ten films, a crossover, a reboot, and an upcoming television series, you’d think every avenue in the Friday the 13th franchise had been thoroughly exhausted. Honestly, finding any originality in the slasher genre is difficult. However, on rare occasions, the horror gods favor us with something special. Last weekend, The Boston Underground Film Festival…
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What’s the movie you’ve watched more than any other? For me, it’s The Devil’s Rejects. On the surface, that may seem odd to pick due to its graphic nature and pleasantly unpleasant leads (who weave the line of protagonist and antagonist). When I was growing up, we would take one family vacation a year, and…