The slasher first established itself as the dominant art form of 1980s horror by capitalizing on the calendar. Arguably beginning with Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978), the formula began to solidify by setting brutal killing sprees on the dates of beloved holidays. With the subsequent success of Friday the 13th (1980), directors clamored to […]
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A Quiet Place: Day One shifts gears from previous entries, but not quite in the way you’d expect. Set in a bustling New York City where the noise levels are at a constant 90dB, the equivalent of a scream, it’s possibly one of the worst places to be for an invasion by extraterrestrials who hunt […]
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The Greater Philadelphia area’s new non-profit horror organization dedicated to supporting indie horror, Delco Horror Haven, hosted their second film premiere event this past Saturday with the screening of Porch Pirate. This is the first full-length feature film from the Philly-based Baby Goblin Productions. Porch Pirate tells the story of young, low-rent thief Bobby (Dru […]
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Rock ‘n roll and performative Satanism may be a match made in heaven, but conservative attitudes used to mean that musicians had to tread carefully when subverting religious standards in their performances. Thankfully, decades of pushed boundaries have led to mainstream audiences finally becoming a bit more lenient when it comes to musical blasphemy. That’s […]
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At only 19 years old, Australian Alice Maio Mackay is already an accomplished filmmaker. Known for low budget, indie genre films like So Vam (2021) and Bad Girl Boogey (2022), Mackay routinely tells exceptional stories about characters running from monsters and masked killers from the horrifying perspective of what it’s like to fight for your […]
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In Southern California, there is a hotbed of paranormal activity known as the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The area called the Borrego Triangle boasts stories of UFOs, eight-foot-tall ghost skeletons, and a furry cryptid known as the Borrego Sandman. Filmmaker Zeshaan Younus and producer Trevor Dillon crowdfunded, assembled a small cast, and spent a week […]
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Death comes for all of us and when it does, those we leave behind will have to figure out how to grieve. There is no handbook or right or wrong way to do it; it is just one of the awful, unavoidable experiences that is part of being human. Sometimes grief means honoring the life […]
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Québécois filmmaker Ariana Louis-Seize’s French-language rom-com, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, bears a lot in common with offbeat vampire features like What We Do in the Shadows and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. The absurdly long title, of course, is one of the more obvious commonalities, but it’s also in the quirky lead […]
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Director Joshua John Miller has a distinctly personal perspective on William Friedkin’s seminal horror classic The Exorcist: his father, Jason Miller, played the reluctant protagonist Father Karras. Yet, seeing his father die on screen in a horror movie isn’t the sole source of inspiration behind The Exorcism, an ambitious, personal piece of meta-horror. Miller and […]
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The latest edition of the Tribeca Film Festival draws to a close in New York City, leaving another strong year for new genre premieres, retrospectives, and events in its wake. Tribeca 2024 unveiled the new premiere of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s ultra-bleak The Devil’s Bath, raucous slasher AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead, goopy sci-fi horror […]
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Prior to booting up Still Wakes the Deep, you’re confronted with the usual suite of options that you’d expect to find in any contemporary videogame. It’s your opportunity to customise things like the gamma levels, the assorted presentation settings, your HUD preferences and of course, the language that you’ll be hearing throughout the ensuing 5-hour […]
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Joko Anwar, a driving force behind Indonesia’s modern film industry, is the creator of Netflix’s new anthology series Nightmares and Daydreams. The Satan’s Slaves filmmaker slips in and out of these seven episodes, with his fingers directly on the pulse of a select few. However, even when not personally directing or writing, Anwar’s unique touch […]
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Death Down the Aisle begins with the tantalizing image of a bride, Malorie (Jess Brown), dressed in a wedding dress splattered with blood. This is a brief (unnecessary) in media res opening before writer Audrey C. Marie jumps the action back to earlier in the day. It’s the day of the wedding, Malorie is preparing […]
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Seafarers are superstitious folk. It’s unsurprising, given the ocean’s volatile nature, that sailors would look for omens to embrace or avoid in the hopes of a safe voyage. It’s a failure to properly honor nautical superstition just before a shipwreck that kickstarts Beacon, a paranoid psychological thriller that traps two strangers together on an almost […]
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Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala already established a reputation for bleak, atmospheric horror with their debut feature, Goodnight Mommy, and their bleaker follow-up, The Lodge. Their latest, The Devil’s Bath, continues that trend with their most despairing effort yet, mining period horror from history. It’s an affecting yet grueling depiction of life in […]
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