You know how people always feel like there’s too many games coming out? Well one of the year’s most exciting games is actually 50 games in one! UFO 50, a collaboration between the devs behind Splunkey, Downwell, and many other indie classics, just came out, and it presents players with a collection of fifty original […]
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Filmmaker Benjamin Barfoot brings the creep factor in Daddy’s Head, an eerie creature feature centered on grief. Set in the immediacy of a sudden, tragic loss, Barfoot’s sophomore feature initially appears to be yet another monster metaphor that draws clear parallels to The Babadook. Luckily, Daddy’s Head forgoes the obvious metaphor for a gnarlier, oblique […]
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Charles Burn crafts a methodical masterpiece about self-discovery and main character syndrome that’s cast against Super 8 science fiction and the power of cinema. “I didn’t know it would be like this. I thought making a movie would be a lot more fun.” It’s hard to compare to the euphoria that’s experienced from a good […]
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In 2012, Kerry Bellessa’s Amber Alert was not well received by critics and viewers, particularly because of the main characters and the choices they made. So it was surprising when the same director returned twelve years later with what is essentially a remake of a rather divisive movie. The plot is, more or less, the […]
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Monsters as metaphors are nothing new to the world of fiction, allowing creators to find novel ways to explore the unknown through horror tropes. The genre has seen a surplus of films using this device in the 10 years since Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released to critical and commercial success, and we can now add […]
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While I think space horror sometimes feels like a known quantity as a subgenre, Mouthwashing, from developer Wrong Organ, constantly kept me on my toes. From its strange title to its jarring opening, it kept me off balance in all the ways good horror should. Right off the bat you can feel the intriguing mix […]
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The latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Amazon, House of Spoils, explores the high stress restaurant environment with a witchy twist. Writer/Directors Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy (Blow the Man Down) deliver a culinary visual feast when it comes to the food and the inner workings of the kitchen, one that happens to be a […]
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Erotic thrillers are a bit of a lost art, enjoying a Golden Age in the ’80s before tapering off in the mid-’90s around the time the genre was parodied in 1993’s Fatal Instinct. By the 2000s, notable entries in the the genre had all but disappeared thanks to its success on the direct-to-video market and […]
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Writer/Director Stuart Ortiz, one half of the filmmaking duo known as The Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial), is no stranger to blurring fact and fiction. The filmmaker used a reality TV show to send a film crew to their doom in the 2011 found footage gem Grave Encounters. Ortiz’s latest, Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, […]
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Adult Swim’s highly anticipated Junji Ito adaptation is animated cosmic and body horror of the highest degree that’s guaranteed to disturb seasoned genre fans. “Become one with me and the spiral.” Junji Ito has become one of the manga industry’s most prolific body horror storytellers and Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror is definitely regarded as one […]
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Nick Frost is no stranger to horror comedies, having starred in such modern classics as Shaun of the Dead and Attack the Block. This year, the actor has already starred in Krazy House (review), and now he is reuniting with that film’s director Steffen Haars in Get Away, a frequently amusing folk horror comedy that relishes in bloodshed […]
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Home invasion films are a dime a dozen nowadays, with this year alone seeing the wide releases of The Strangers: Chapter One and Abigail. But surplus can often breed creativity, with filmmakers forced to seek innovative ways to make their films stand out from the pack. That’s just what Jason Krawczyk (He Never Died) does with Don’t […]
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It’s been a year of horror prequels, with The First Omen and A Quiet Place: Day One renewing faith in the prequel’s ability to find unexpected, poignant story threads still left to explore, especially with talented voices driving them. That Apartment 7A, the prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, stacks the talent in front of and the […]
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Every horror fan has their blind spots, those subgenres or movements in movies that they just haven’t gotten around to for whatever reason. The two biggest for me are giallo (which thanks to the Criterion Channel I’m currently working on) and the films of the first decade of the 21st century. For me it was […]
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Netflix’s ‘Twilight of the Gods’ mixes Norse mythology with sex, magic, and extreme violence as its strives for a mythical quest that’s truly for mature audiences. “The age of petty Gods must end.” The past decade has been a goldmine for subversive tales about Gods and mythological warriors, whether it’s American Gods, Ragnarok, KAOS, or […]
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