Category: Film
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Indie films are kind of my jam. If you’ve read any of my work on this or any other site, there’s a good chance it was for an underdog movie made by passionate people. When it was announced that A Most Atrocious Thing would have its World Premiere at the Make Believe Film Festival, I…
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If you’re a fair-weather horror fan who only takes in the biggest Hollywood horror titles and rarely ventures into the mid-level or microbudget worlds of the macabre, then the name Graham Skipper might not ring a bell. But for the rest of us, the prospect of new Graham Skipper material is always great news. Skipper…
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Almost a hundred years ago, the archetype for the first suburban community was developed. A well-marketed staple of the American dream, a suburban home was a sign of prominence and social status. People were escaping a life of inner-city crowding and, if you ask those marketers, potential violence for a safer, cleaner living space away…
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I’ve been a huge fan of the Ghostbusters franchise ever since I was a little kid. I love the original two movies and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (although I never saw the remake), I watched the animated series back in the day, and I even had the “real-life” Ghostbusters appear at my birthday party one year. So…
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I’ll start honestly. I had low expectations for Michael Mohan’s latest film Immaculate. The Voyeurs, Mohan’s last film, which also starred Sydney Sweeney, struck me as a knockoff of Polanski’s Apartment trilogy mixed with a heap of Rear Window. But more than anything, it was a bit lifeless. Then, I saw the jumpscare heavy trailer…
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I’ve been aching to see Late Night with the Devil for a while now. I first got wind of the film when it was making its rounds on the festival circuit last year, and the positive buzz it garnered made it an absolute must-watch for me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch it at any…
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During the Christmas season a year ago, I gifted myself my first Vinegar Syndrome subscription. Filling my 2023 with endless B-movie entertainment from robust psycho-erotic thrillers to beguiling straight-to-video actioners, these eyes have seen things they’ll never understand, and gleefully so. Some of the stuff out there from the bygone heyday of video rentals aren’t…
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If you’re not familiar with Well Go USA, you need to remedy that. They’re one of the best genre distributors out there, and they especially excel at bringing Korean films to the States. For example, they’ve introduced American audiences to modern classics like Train to Busan and The Wailing, and just last month, they gave…
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more dementedly sadistic horror movie than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sure, the film isn’t particularly gory, but despite that lack of on-screen blood and guts, the insanity of the Sawyer family still hits you like a ton of bricks. It’s a visual and psychological assault on our sense…
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To riff on the opening line of another recent review of mine, horror and religion go together like peanut butter and jelly. It’s a classic combination that’s given us some of the greatest horror films of all time, like The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, and The Witch, so when I first heard about Sheeps Clothing,…