Category: Horror Reviews
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I first heard about Párvulos when Sean Parker and I covered the Fantasia International Film Festival a few months ago. Sean reviewed the film and had great things to say about it, and he wasn’t alone. Most critics who saw it seem to have enjoyed it, so naturally, I became interested in checking the movie…
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I have to be honest, I initially wasn’t planning on watching Ghost Killer. In fact, up until just a couple of days ago, the film wasn’t even on my radar. There are so many great movies at Fantastic Fest that some inevitably have to fall by the wayside, and this was slated to be one…
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It’s not often that movies play at the same festival twice, but somehow, The Birthday has managed to do just that. The film had its first festival run about 20 years ago, and it even played at the inaugural Fantastic Fest back in 2005, but it quickly faded into oblivion. Thankfully though, a bootleg version…
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I’m a big fan of meta-horror. Whether it’s classics like Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and Scream or more modern gems like The Cabin in the Woods and The Final Girls, I love horror movies that comment on the genre itself. So naturally, when I heard that the Indonesian flick The Draft! was a meta-horror comedy…
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Do we really need a prequel to Rosemary’s Baby? More to the point, do we really need a prequel about a D-level side character whose fate we already know? I don’t know about you, but when I first heard about Apartment 7A, I was skeptical. Horror prequels don’t have a great track record, and at…
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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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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…