Author: Meagan Navarro

‘The Toxic Avenger’ – Macon Blair on the New Toxie and the Actor Beneath the Makeup [Interview]

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Writer/Director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore) introduces a very different Toxie in his Troma remake, The Toxic Avenger. Here, it’s the downtrodden Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) who’s dunked into the toxic sludge that transforms him into a monstrous crusader against an evil corporation headed by greedy CEO Bob Garbinger (Kevin Bacon). Blair […]

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‘Your Lucky Day’ Fantastic Fest Review – Propulsive Siege Thriller Takes Aim at Corrupt American Dream

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Writer/Director Dan Brown’s feature debut, Your Lucky Day, elevates a simple concept with palpable tension and intense confrontations. A convenient store at Christmastime transforms into a harrowing battleground when a winning lotto ticket emerges, creating an intense thriller filled with surprise escalations and propulsive action. It’s not just the narrative turns and bleak authenticity that makes Your Lucky Day winsome, […]

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‘Pet Sematary: Bloodlines’ Fantastic Fest Review – Prequel Favors Scares Over Story

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In Stephen King’s 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary, long-term Ludlow resident Jud Crandall relays some of the town’s lengthy history with the cursed burial ground that resurrects the dead to nightmarish results. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, the prequel to the 2019 remake, explores some of that history without any purpose other than to deliver entertaining jolts and a […]

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‘The Origin’ Fantastic Fest Review – An Ambitious High Concept Stone Age Thriller

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Andrew Cumming’s feature directorial debut, The Origin, executes its high concept with impressive ambition. Not only does it travel back 45,000 years in time to tell the survival thriller, but Cummings and screenwriter Ruth Greenberg developed a fictional language for its characters. Combined with a handsomely shot production, it ensures that The Origin beguiles, though it struggles to mine suspense […]

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“The Fall of the House of Usher” Review – Mike Flanagan’s Final Netflix Series Remixes Poe to Macabre, Mixed Results

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Creator Mike Flanagan’s latest and final series collaboration with Netflix, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” takes on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Much like “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” Flanagan’s latest uses a classic short story as the central narrative framework to remix a variety of Poe’s macabre poems and short stories but with Flanagan’s signature […]

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review – Chaos Reigns in Macon Blair’s Gory Comedy Reboot

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Writer/Director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore) answers a very specific question for his sophomore directorial feature: what if Troma’s 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger was rebooted with a much bigger budget? Armed with a new Toxie and story, Blair’s version comes packed with reverent nods to the original and retains its specific […]

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‘No One Will Save You’ Review – Brian Duffield Delivers Nerve-Fraying Sci-fi Twist to Home Invasion Horror

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Writer/Director Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, Love and Monsters) continues his streak of housing affecting metaphors within thrilling genre features with his latest, No One Will Save You. In this instance, a woman alienated from her community finds herself contending with highly intelligent, hostile aliens from another planet. In Duffield’s capable hands, a journey through self-forgiveness gets transformed into a propulsive, […]

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‘When Evil Lurks’ Trailer – ‘Terrified’ Director Unleashes Unstoppable Demonic Carnage

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After terrifying audiences with Terrified back in 2017, filmmaker Demián Rugna is back with new horror movie When Evil Lurks, and a new poster and trailer unveiled today gives a glimpse at the putrid evil affecting a town and spreading shocking violence. Shudder and IFC Films will be presenting When Evil Lurks in theaters on October 6, followed by the film’s Shudder premiere […]

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‘The Last Video Store’ Clip – A Cursed VHS Tape Is Ready to Kill

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The Last Video Store, set to premiere this Friday at Fantastic Fest, pays tribute to the format wars and the video stores of yesteryear through a cursed VHS tape that unleashes terror. Bloody Disgusting has been provided with a clip that demonstrates a horrific fate far worse than late fees for store employees and patrons. […]

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‘No One Will Save You’ – Brian Duffield Talks Elaborate Alien Mythology and Avoiding Familiar Tropes [Interview]

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Up next from filmmaker Brian Duffield (Spontaneous) is No One Will Save You, an intense sci-fi psychological thriller that begins streaming September 22, exclusively on Hulu. The film introduces Brynn Adams (Kaitlyn Dever), a creative and talented young woman who’s been alienated from her community. And that’s before she’s awoken one night to actual aliens that have […]

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‘Shaky Shivers’ Director Sung Kang on Celebrating ’80s Practical Effects and Falling for Horror Fandom [Interview]

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Actor Sung Kang is most widely known for playing fan-favorite Han in the Fast & Furious franchise, among other roles outside of horror, including a voice role in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. That he chose gateway horror Shaky Shivers for his feature directorial debut might seem unconventional. However, after speaking with the filmmaker, the charming tale of friendship among zombies […]

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The Horror Queers Podcast Returns to Fantastic Fest with ‘A Decade of Queer Horror’ Live Event

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The latest edition of Fantast Fest is set to commence at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, from September 21st – 28th, unleashing a slew of face-melting premieres, cinema celebrations, and live events. That includes a special event from Bloody FM’s Horror Queers Podcast, marking their return to the festival. “We are so thrilled to be […]

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A24 Teams Up with AMC Theaters for October’s ‘Thrills & Chills’ Film Series

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AMC Theaters‘ ongoing Thrills & Chills programming, dedicated to horror and suspense, will be devoted to A24‘s horror favorites in a new partnership between AMC Theaters and A24 for the Halloween season, per IndieWire. A24 takes over the horror slate throughout October in “A24 Presents: October Thrills & Chills Film Series.” “Participating U.S.-based AMC Theaters […]

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“The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” Season 5 Sets Halloween Premiere

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 “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” has quickly become a Halloween season staple on horror streaming service Shudder, and that streak continues with the groundbreaking reality series’ fifth season set to premiere on Halloween. “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” will premiere on Tuesday, October 31 on Shudder and AMC+. New episodes air weekly. The fifth season promises to […]

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New Screams Alert: ‘The History of Metal and Horror’ Doc is Now Available on SCREAMBOX

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Throw up the devil horns: feature documentary The History of Metal and Horror celebrates the unholy union of heavy metal and horror, and it’s available to stream on SCREAMBOX. Delve into the history of the intersecting genres now with the doc exclusively streaming on SCREAMBOX. The History of Metal and Horror is “The documentary that […]

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