It turns out that the effervescent but neurotic wit and charm that made Hugh Grant an enduring romantic lead actor translates quite well to horror. His disarming villain, an impish type who delights in psychological and theological warfare, elevates Heretic, the latest from writer/director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (65, Haunt). The self-contained chamber […]
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In the cold open for Dead Talents Society, the new film by director John Hsu (2019’s Detention), a young woman enters hotel room 414. Bizarre events quickly add up, including a whole wall that is suddenly plastered with glamour pictures of a woman. Then the closet door creeps open and the woman from the picture […]
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It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike […]
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Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat set the bar high for herself in 2017, with her debut feature Revenge delivering a visceral, feminine twist to the rape-revenge thriller that climaxed in an epic bloodbath. So much that it seemed nearly impossible to top. Yet the filmmaker does just that with sophomore effort The Substance, transforming a familiar concept […]
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Indigenous horror has become increasingly popular in recent years, particularly in Canada where efforts are being made to seek out, fund, and promote First Nation stories (see also: Slash/Back and the late Jeff Barnaby’s work like Blood Quantum and Rhymes for Young Ghouls). With Seeds, we can add Kaniehtiio Horn’s name to the list. The […]
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We’ve discussed several times in these Lifetime reviews that the mystery is often the most superfluous element. The films are very rarely trying to surprise or fool the audience. In fact, the reveal is often right there in the title (see: She’s Obsessed With My Husband). Much like Stepmom from Hell, however, co-writers Geoffrey D. […]
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The opening credits for The Perfect Couple are fun and cute. As Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals” plays, the cast of Netflix’s new limited series – from the police officers to the housekeeper to Nicole Kidman herself – perform a coordinated wedding dance on the beach. It’s the kind of clichéd bit one expects to see at […]
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Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton reunite with director Tim Burton to venture back into the whimsically macabre realm that made the 1988 classic Beetlejuice an enduring fan favorite. The long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, appropriately takes place 30-something years after the Ghost with the Most tried to con his way back to life with […]
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“Why true crime?” is a question you may have asked others or perhaps yourself, depending on where you fall within the true crime industrial complex that has permeated popular culture. Even classifying true crime as “popular culture” feels irresponsible, but that’s exactly what it is: the massive popularity of the Serial podcast and Netflix serial […]
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There are two types of people that are going to be attracted to The Casting of Frank Stone: Dead by Daylight fans, looking for a new game set in the universe of their favorite asymmetrical multiplayer game, or Supermassive fans, who want to see the latest cinematic game from the studio behind Until Dawn and […]
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In a time where CGI and other digital technology reign as the kings of cinema special effects, Full Moon Features has released a film with old school SFX and a production timeline nearly half a century-long, spanning from conceptualization to release, with The Primevals. And this timeline length is no exaggeration. The road to this […]
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‘Terminator Zero’ turns to a striking anime aesthetic that breathes fresh life into the flailing sci-fi franchise and helps it break exciting, new ground. Why are we still telling Terminator stories? What started as a fascinating and frightening horror/science fiction calling card for a scrappy James Cameron has increasingly faced diminishing returns. Terminator told the […]
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Horror is almost an afterthought in director Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance. The director behind domestic drama Precious and musical biopic United States vs. Billie Holiday draws inspiration from the true story of Latoya Ammons, focusing on the plight of a single mother struggling to survive when her new home harbors an evil that means them […]
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Director Alex Proyas‘ vision of James O’Barr’s comic book, The Crow, firmly rooted itself in the pop culture pantheon, a defining film of the ’90s for its dreamy gothic style and the tragic on-set passing of its star, Brandon Lee. Proyas‘ take on The Crow was so singular and successful that it launched a film […]
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Five years ago, the co-op board game Horrified set you up against Universal Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Invisible Man. It mixed clever co-op mechanics reminiscent of classic games like Pandemic with an iconic property to great results. Since then, they released Horrified: American Monsters and Horrified: Greek Monsters, standalone sequels to the […]
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