horror
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“Watcher” is an infuriating little movie. A really well made one, but infuriating nonetheless. Directed by Chloe Okuno, (making her feature debut, previously directing the “Storm Drain” vignette from “V/H/S/94”), “Watcher” explores what happens when people don’t fucking listen to women. A lot of us can relate, I’m sure. Former actress Julia (Maika Monroe, “Longlegs,”
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Despite, as previously mentioned, being afraid of everything as a kid I also had a raging case of FOMO, especially when it came to things I wasn’t supposed to see, watch, listen to, etc. The more forbidden a piece of media was, the more I coveted it. Like many of the disaffected suburban youth of
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2024 was such a great year for horror. My absolute favorite movie I watched last year was director Damian Mc Carthy’s (“Caveat,” which I also strongly recommend) “Oddity.” All of my boxes are thoroughly ticked by “Oddity;” a mysterious murder, things not being as they seem, girls’ girls, cursed artifacts, and comeuppance. What more could
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“The Night House” began its life as an idea for an entry in the “Hellraiser” franchise, which explains a lot (including director David Bruckner directing the 2022 “Hellraiser” installation, which is one of the best “Hellraiser” films in recent history). I believe watching it with that knowledge made it better, so I’m putting that out
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Talk to me about “Talk to Me” and we can geek out together. One of my top five films from the past five years, it grabs you from the beginning and doesn’t let go. It even shakes you a couple of times. Knowing “Talk to Me” was the Philippou brothers’ feature debut makes it even
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This one’s for the theater kids. Hear me out; “Zombie Strippers!” is an incredibly loose reinterpretation of Eugene Ionesco’s play, “Rhinoceros.” A surrealist critique of fascism, the original “Rhinoceros” is set in a small town where citizens mysteriously start to turn into (spoiler alert) rhinoceroses. I have a special place for this play in my
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I tried something a little different for this entry; I gave a second chance to a movie I didn’t particularly care for the first time around. My spouse and I were looking for something to do on a day off, and decided to take in some questionable cinema (in public). We took our seats and
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I feel like I saw almost nothing about “Cobweb” in the usual places (mainly r/horror, with which I have a love/hate relationship) when it was released, and reviews were mixed, which I think is why a lot of people never ended up seeing or hearing of it. I watched it for the reasons I assume
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Let’s spend some time with Gaspar Noé (“Irréversible,” “Enter the Void”) and his motion sickness-inducing filmmaking style! “Climax” is a movie almost exclusively starring professional dancers who adlib and dance their way through the worst acid trip ever. When “based on a true story” popped up on the screen my interest was piqued; upon further
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