Tag: IFC Films
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The Little Mermaid dissolving into sea foam, the Evil Queen dancing in a pair of red-hot shoes, and Sleeping Beauty being sexually assaulted and giving birth to twins—these original versions of our modern fairy tales were far from cheerful. In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt adds her dark twist to the story of…
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Exaggeration is often a key component of what makes a great horror movie—emphasizing the tension, overstating the viscera, and aggrandizing a beast. When the stakes are high, the audience is on the edge of their seat. Then comes the undertones. The social commentary in parallels, symbolism, and allegories that aren’t there to be noticed on…
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Twenty years ago, Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead introduced the world to a pair of super believable best friends. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s incredible chemistry led the pair to multiple team-up efforts, even beyond Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy. Pegg and Frost have since become household names. However, 2024 has been particularly loaded with Nick…
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I’m not going to lie, when I first heard about Out Come the Wolves, I immediately thought of Rancid’s seminal 1995 album with almost the exact same name. That’s just how my punk rock-saturated brain works, but as irrelevant as that connection is, it proved to be quite fortuitous. It piqued my interest, and when…
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As a horror lover and reviewer, very little creeps up and surprises me. The ones that do often make the year-end lists. Reading about director Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity over the last few weeks as it was released in US theaters and seeing the photos of the film’s wooden doll, I wasn’t sure what to…
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Oddity has been on my most-anticipated list ever since I first got wind of it. It was made by Damian McCarthy, the guy who burst onto the horror scene with the 2020 gem Caveat, and if you’ve seen that film, you know it’s one of the best and most inventive creepfests in recent memory. I…