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    ‘Hunted’: A Preventable and Disappointing Take

    by Anna Campion January 24, 2021
    by Anna Campion January 24, 2021

    Slasher films occupy a niche role in the canon of horror films. I’m talking Halloween, Child’s Play, Happy Death Day, all the best sleepover movies when you’re 14. Often considered one of the lower horror…

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    Bret Easton Ellis and Crispin Glover Team Up for the Painfully Dull ‘Smiley Face Killers’

    by Chris van Dijk December 12, 2020
    by Chris van Dijk December 12, 2020

    Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one years old when he published his first novel: Less Than Zero. Success followed, and with the publication of the highly controversial third novel, American Psycho, came fame. As an…

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    Vince Vaughn Channels His Inner Teenage Girl to Remarkable Effect in Christopher Landon’s ‘Freaky’

    by George Clark December 9, 2020
    by George Clark December 9, 2020

    Christopher Landon’s latest horror-comedy Freaky is an utter delight. Starring Kathryn Newton, Uriah Shelton, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, and the one and only Vince Vaughn, the film follows Kathryn Newton’s Millie who, after swapping bodies…

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    Grief-Stricken Grandparents Venture into Satanism in ‘Anything for Jackson’

    by Chris van Dijk December 8, 2020
    by Chris van Dijk December 8, 2020

    The horror genre is a good starting point for an aspiring filmmaker. From a financial standpoint, you will likely attract more investors if your low-budget film happens to be a horror film. Most of them…

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    ‘Habitual’, Indie Horror By the Numbers

    by Brian Connor November 15, 2020
    by Brian Connor November 15, 2020

    Night Of The Living Dead. Paranormal Activity. The Blair Witch Project. All micro-budget horror films that made an absolute fortune at the box office. Which, unfortunately, leads hundreds of people to think making a horror film…

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    FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘The Nights Before Christmas’

    by Lisa Geurts October 27, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts October 27, 2020

    Watching a Christmas film around Halloween felt a little odd; however, scary stuff mixed with Christmas is an excellent combination. It’s still a common phenomenon to share ghost stories at Christmas time, after all. Let’s…

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    FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘The World We Knew’

    by Lisa Geurts October 26, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts October 26, 2020

    British gangster noir meets the haunted house genre in the gripping and visually stunning The World We Knew. The film opens right where we need to be: gang members have a robbery go wrong, and they flee…

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    FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Benny Loves You’

    by Lisa Geurts October 25, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts October 25, 2020

    Loner Jack throws away some of his old stuff after his parents die in a freak accident, including his childhood teddy bear, Benny. But, in a twist of fate, Benny springs to life! He desperately…

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    FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Don’t Look Back’

    by Lisa Geurts October 23, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts October 23, 2020

    Don’t Look Back starts with a haunting montage of (what looks like) real-life footage bystanders shot on their phones of people being attacked… or worse. Immediately, you begin thinking about what role you would play…

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    FrightFest Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Dangerous to Know’

    by Lisa Geurts October 22, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts October 22, 2020

    Writer’s Note: the following discussion of Dangerous to Know includes brief mentions of suicide. It is difficult not to be utterly impressed by Dangerous to Know. The film is an ultimate passion project, made almost entirely by director…

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    ‘The Mortuary Collection’ Is at Once Horrifying and Adorable

    by Patricia Henderson October 16, 2020
    by Patricia Henderson October 16, 2020

    When I noticed the name Clancy Brown in The Mortuary Collection‘s description, it was all the motivation I needed. He is one of my favorite character actors. In fact, he’s so good, he even makes…

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    ‘Tales from the Hood 3’ Fails to Live Up to the Identity of the Franchise

    by Chris van Dijk October 13, 2020
    by Chris van Dijk October 13, 2020

    The original Tales from the Hood from 1995 was an enjoyable mixture of horror schlock and social commentary, emulating the spirit of the classic HBO TV series, Tales from the Crypt, with its whimsical attitude…

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    ‘Death of Me’ Is a Waste of Time for the Audience, But a Nice Paid Vacation for the Cast and Crew

    by Chris van Dijk October 6, 2020
    by Chris van Dijk October 6, 2020

    It’s not easy being a horror buff in 2020. By now, a lot of intriguing horror films should have already come out: from Spiral, the new Saw movie starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson;…

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    Why Many Are Wrong About ‘Antebellum’

    by Lisa Geurts September 24, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts September 24, 2020

    Upon finishing Antebellum, I needed about half an hour to gather my thoughts. I then needed another two hours when I saw the overall critics and audience consensus on Antebellum was definitively disappointed. Did I…

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    ‘Spiral’ is Excellent Queer Commentary Through a Horror Lens

    by Lisa Geurts September 16, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts September 16, 2020

    In Spiral, we follow Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) as he moves to a small town with his partner Aaron (Ari Cohen) and Aaron’s sixteen-year-old daughter Kayla (Jennifer Laporte). They instantly notice the town is not accustomed to…

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    Fantasia Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘The Mortuary Collection’

    by Nick Kush September 13, 2020
    by Nick Kush September 13, 2020

    At this point, we should pay attention anytime Shudder picks up a horror movie out of a festival. Or, when they pick up a film in general, for that matter. The service’s original programming is…

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    ‘Uncle Peckerhead’: Upsetting in the Wrong Ways

    by Anna Campion August 31, 2020
    by Anna Campion August 31, 2020

    Horror-comedy is an absolutely fascinating genre. It’s an excellent means of psychological and social commentary, while also being light and often so outlandish that one has to laugh between the jump scares. In my experience,…

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    ‘Random Acts of Violence’ is a Grisly Critique of Horror Entertainment

    by Nick Kush August 20, 2020
    by Nick Kush August 20, 2020

    The most ingenious line from Wes Craven’s Scream (among many other great soundbites from a continually prescient movie) is Billy Loomis noting, “movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative.” Jay Baruchel’s Random Acts…

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    ‘Host’ Provides Good Scares as Both the Viewers and Characters Deal with the Pandemic

    by Lisa Geurts August 14, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts August 14, 2020

    Host was filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic (so quite recently…) and completely via Zoom. It’s based on director Rob Savage pranking his friends on the software, which went viral. (For all the fun, you can find…

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    ‘Sputnik’ Orbits Your Ethics in this Solid Creature Feature

    by Chris Wager August 12, 2020
    by Chris Wager August 12, 2020

    Sputnik is a perfect example of how to take a premise that has been done almost perfectly in the past and show the audience that there is room for more. Once you look past the…

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    ‘The Rental’ is Well Worth a VOD Rental

    by Brian Connor July 23, 2020
    by Brian Connor July 23, 2020

    Promising to do for Airbnb what Unfriended did for Skype, The Rental takes two genre types and blends them to chilling effect. Two couples, comprised of Silicon Valley tech-bro Charlie (Dan Stevens) and his partner…

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    ‘The Pool’ Goes Off the Deep End

    by Brian Connor July 22, 2020
    by Brian Connor July 22, 2020

    Clearing up after a film shoot, Day (Theeradej Wongpuapan) takes a break to float in a 6-meter deep pool on an inflatable. Unfortunately, it’s a slowly draining pool and after a little nap, he wakes…

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    ‘Lake Of Death’ is a Little Too Old Fashioned

    by Brian Connor July 17, 2020
    by Brian Connor July 17, 2020

    For a country with a population of only five million people, Norway punches above its weight in the world of scary movies. Maybe it’s the unfathomable depths of the fjords, maybe it’s the long dark…

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    ‘Relic’ is a Masterclass in Independent Horror

    by Collin Willis July 9, 2020
    by Collin Willis July 9, 2020

    When I saw Relic at the Sundance Premiere in January (it feels like an eternity ago), I was floored. Catching up with the film before sitting down to pen this, soon to be, overwhelmingly positive review,…

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    ‘The Beach House’ is a Great Place to Stay for Horror Fans

    by Brian Connor July 7, 2020
    by Brian Connor July 7, 2020

    Young couple Emily and Randall (Liana Liberato and Noah Le Gros) travel to a getaway beach house for a weekend of relaxation. On arrival, they find the beach house double-booked with an older couple Jane…

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    Above All Else, ‘Scare Package’ is Extremely Likable

    by Lisa Geurts June 24, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts June 24, 2020

    What a FUN movie Scare Package is. Shot by seven different directors, the film is packed with diverse storylines. I am reasonably familiar with the anthology genre, and I like that it is mainly just…

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    Should’ve Stayed Home from ‘The Dinner Party’

    by Lisa Geurts June 13, 2020
    by Lisa Geurts June 13, 2020

    What I expected from The Dinner Party was a wonderful combination of horror films Would You Rather and Ready or Not. Even though those movies are both about playing a traditional game with a horror spin, and The…

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    ‘The Wretched’ Adds Up to a Better-Than-Average Horror Movie

    by Chris Wager April 28, 2020
    by Chris Wager April 28, 2020

    Pop quiz hotshot, when a witch moves in next door with the power to make you forget about ever having kids with a meer whisper, what do you do? The Wretched takes some elements from The Burbs, The…

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    ‘The Other Lamb’: Horror that Isn’t Scary

    by Anna Campion April 7, 2020
    by Anna Campion April 7, 2020

    Cults. They’re fascinating, aren’t they? Groups of people who are convinced of one belief system or one way to live at the expense of their best interests, charismatic leaders, and often weird outfits. The cult…

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    ‘The Invisible Man’ is the True Start of the Year in Horror

    by Aubrey McKay March 4, 2020
    by Aubrey McKay March 4, 2020

    With a new calendar year, we are usually bombarded with a large number of bad movies. Whether it is big studios dumping films that don’t look too promising, betting on a movie star to bring…

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