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‘Exhuma’ Review – South Korea’s Box Office Hit is a Fun Folk Horror Surprise

Meagan Navarro Choi Min-Sik, Exhuma, Movies, Reviews

South Korea’s current box office champion multiple weeks in a row, Exhuma, offers an unexpected and entertaining take on folk horror. While dense in lore and spiritual worldbuilding, the latest horror offering from writer/director Jae-hyun Jang (Svaha: The Sixth Finger, The Priests) balances its grim, sometimes bloody folkloric terror with levity and heart. Anchored by four “ghostbusters” of sorts, […]

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Lifetime’s ‘Danger on Party Island’ Needs More Party and More Danger [Review]

Joe Lipsett Adam Harper, Andrea Prevatt, Annie Cook, Danny J Boyle, Hannah Maryse Robinson, James Bobo, Kate Dailey, lifetime, Lindsey Desbach, Mackenzie Thompson, Mia Rose, Movies, Reviews

Lifetime’s latest thriller drops viewers into the action right from the jump. Under desaturated grey/blue skies, introverted lawyer Mel (Lindsey Desbach) rides a ferry to Feng Key island. She’s headed to the titular party island not for a vacation, though; she’s there to identify the body of her drowned younger sister, Georgia (Andrea Prevatt). It’s […]

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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review – The Nostalgia Tank Is Running on Empty in Familiar Ghostbusting Tale

Meagan Navarro featured, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Gil Kenan, McKenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Reviews, topnews

It’s been almost forty years since Ghostbusters introduced the plucky foursome fumbling their way through spectral encounters, using a now iconic Manhattan firehouse as their operations base. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, set two years after the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, further entrenches the Spengler family and newcomers into the franchise by returning to where it all began: New York City. Frozen […]

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‘Alone in the Dark’ Review – Classic and Modern Survival Horror Collide in Mostly Successful Remake

Harrison Abbott alone in the dark, Reviews, Video Games

For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion for a brief period in the late-noughties — when games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 pivoted in a more action-oriented direction — but generally they have been […]

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“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Episode 4 Review – Danai Gurira Writes an Exceptional Hour of TV

Noah Levine Reviews, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, TV

“What We,” written by Michonne herself, Danai Gurira, is the fourth episode in AMC’s “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” Serving as an emotional climax for Michonne and Rick’s journey, the episode unravels much like a play (which makes sense given Gurira’s background as a playwright). Confined to an abandoned apartment building in the […]

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‘In Search of Darkness’ Book Review: A Must-Have for ’80s Horror Fans

Brian Keiper Books, In Search of Darkness, Reviews

In 2019, the documentary of 80s horror In Search of Darkness became an instant hit with horror fans. Now, a beautiful coffee table style companion book is available and is a must-own for all fans of one of horror’s greatest eras. The book is a walk down the horror aisle of the best mom and […]

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‘Sasquatch Sunset’ SXSW Review – Cryptid Comedy Overstays Its Welcome with Gross-Out Humor

Meagan Navarro Reviews, Riley Keough, Sasquatch Sunset, SXSW, SXSW 2024

There’s a lot to appreciate about co-directors David Zellner and Nathan Zellner‘s unique cryptid comedy, Sasquatch Sunset. A slice-of-life chronicling of a nomadic sasquatch family, possibly the very last of their kind, bridges the short gap between humans and cryptids in its showcasing of family drama to comedic effect. That the fiercely committed cast remains completely unrecognizable under head-to-toe prosthetics […]

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‘Civil War’ SXSW Review – Alex Garland’s Anti-War Movie Provides a Sensory Assault

Meagan Navarro A24, Alex Garland, Civil War, Kirsten Dunst, Movies, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2024

“Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home: don’t do this,” Kirsten Dunst’s veteran photojournalist Lee tells another in Civil War. “But here we are.” The sentiment sums up writer/director Alex Garland‘s anti-war messaging, told through a visceral assault on the senses as it plunges its characters on a road trip […]

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‘Cuckoo’ Review – High-Concept Horror Movie Gets Weird, Quirky, and Playful

Meagan Navarro Cuckoo, Dan Stevens, Hunter Schafer, Movies, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2024, Tilman Singer

Writer/Director Tilman Singer continues his streak of experimental high-concept horror with his sophomore effort, Cuckoo. The filmmaker boldly marches to the beat of his own drum, examining heady themes of grief, reproduction, and gendered expectations through inventive, playful horror. That Cuckoo plays it fast and loose with details and plotting means that this body horror entry will likely polarize, […]

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‘Herencia Diabólica’ – 1993’s “Mexican Child’s Play” Finally Has a Blu-ray Release [Review]

Geof Capodanno Child's Play, Herencia Diabólica, Home Video, Movies, Reviews, The Syn Bin, Vinegar Syndrome

Did you know that there is a Child’s Play-inspired film from Mexico? If you didn’t, you can thank Vinegar Syndrome’s new label Degausser Video for making 1993’s Herencia Diabólica available for the masses to watch. Or at least for the VS hardcore fanbase, Chucky completists and anyone else who needs something like this in their […]

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‘Immaculate’ SXSW Review – Sydney Sweeney Gets Fierce in Conventional Religious Horror Film

Meagan Navarro Immaculate, Movies, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2024, Sydney Sweeney

A horror movie set in an Italian convent with a title like Immaculate communicates all there is to know about the plot. A young American nun, Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), travels to her new post in the remote countryside, only to discover she’s miraculously pregnant soon after taking her vows. Director Michael Mohan and screenwriter Andrew […]

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‘Monkey Man’ SXSW Review – Myth and Ultra-Violence Collide in Dev Patel’s Bloody Actioner

Meagan Navarro Dev Patel, Monkey Man, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2024

Dev Patel (The Green Knight, Slumdog Millionaire) has much more on his mind than straightforward action homage with his high-octane directorial feature debut, Monkey Man. At the SXSW world premiere, Patel told the enrapt audience that he poured his soul into his hyper-violent actioner, and broke two toes, a hand, tore a shoulder, and battled an eye infection […]

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‘Arcadian’ SXSW Review – Nicolas Cage Creature Feature Highlighted by Inventive Monster Designs

Meagan Navarro Arcadian, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2024

While Nicolas Cage gets a proper hero’s moment or two in director Benjamin Brewer and writer/producer Mike Nilon’s Arcadian, the post-apocalyptic creature feature belongs to its young stars. Playing like a cross between a poignant coming-of-age story and intense survival horror, Arcadian does just enough to set itself apart from similar fare. However, its ultimate appeal and magic lie in the inventive monster […]

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[Review] Graphic Novel ‘Tender’ Is Brilliant Feminist Body Horror That Will Make You Squirm & Scream

Daniel Kurland Beth Hetland, Comics, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novel, Reviews, Tender

Beth Hetland’s debut graphic novel, ‘Tender,’ is a modern tale of love, validation, and self-destruction by way of brutal body horror with a feminist edge. “I’ve wanted this more than anything.” Men so often dominate the body horror subgenre, which makes it so rare and insightful whenever women tackle this space. This makes Beth Hetland’s […]

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“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Episode 3 Review – This Series Continues to Surprise and Delight

Noah Levine Reviews, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, TV

Coming off an exceptional second episode last week (which featured an awesome nod to Dawn of the Dead, a stand-out performance from newcomer Matthew Jeffers as Nat, and the wonderful full reunion between Rick and Michonne), “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Episode 3 (“Bye”) finds Michonne still undercover within the CRM as a […]

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