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“The Horror of Dolores Roach” Review – Sweeney Todd-Like Cannibal Comedy Series Spins its Wheels

Meagan Navarro Justina Machado, Prime Video, Reviews, The Horror Of Dolores Roach, TV

Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, isn’t shy about its influences. Giving a contemporary, gentrification spin on the Victorian cannibalism tale of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new series from creator Aaron Mark injects winking nods at every turn and then some, including a reference to William Shakespeare’s Titus […]

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‘The Callisto Protocol’ DLC Review – “The Final Transmission” Fails to Improve on a Flawed Base Game

Aaron Boehm Krafton Inc., PC, playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Reviews, steam, Striking Distance Studios, The Callisto Protocol, The Final Transmission, Video Games, xbox one, Xbox Series

In Thomas Wilde’s review of the Callisto Protocol last December, he wrote that the game could have used more time in development to reach the full potential of what developer Striking Distance was going for. In the last seven months, the game has received patches fixing bugs and adding new game modes, including New Game+ and a […]

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‘Superposition’ Review – A Character Driven Doppelgänger Thriller

Paul Lê BIFAN, Karoline Lyngbye, Mikkel Bak Sørensen, Movies, Reviews, Superposition

In the film Superposition, city dwellers Stine (Marie Bach Hansen) and Teit (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) trade Copenhagen for Sweden. Their young son Nemo (Mihlo Olsen) and their dog Tarzan are in tow. As Stine tries to overcome her writer’s block at their isolated cabin in the woods, Teit conceives a podcast documenting their year-long stay. No […]

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‘Bldg. N’ Review – Japanese Haunted Apartment Movie Can’t Fill Its Own Vacancy

Paul Lê BIFAN, Bldg N, Movies, Reviews, Yosuke Goto

In true fashion, the inspiration for the Japanese horror film Bldg. N is an urban legend. In the early 2000s, there was a media storm about the “poltergeist apartments” in Tomika, Gifu. This new complex lured many tenants with its cheap rent, but they gradually cleared out once the paranormal activity began and the news coverage became […]

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‘Disorder’ Review – Mongolian Horror Movie Slyly Plays With Perception

Paul Lê Batdelger Byambasuren, BIFAN, disorder, Movies, Reviews

Since Mongolia doesn’t often produce genre films, Disorder is a rare treat. Batdelger Byambasuren’s debut certainly comes across as horror in that first minute, seeing as it opens with a young woman trapped inside a burning room, screaming for help. The film then reveals the sequence was a mere nightmare. However, an external shot of […]

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‘Aliens: Dark Descent’ Review – Brutal Tactics and Nail-Biting Experience Captures the Essence of ‘Aliens’

Reyna Cervantes Aliens, Aliens Dark Descent, Reviews, Video Games

I’m of the mindset that there has never been an excellent modern video game based on the Alien franchise. Alien: Isolation was an exercise in misery, taking what should’ve been a well-crafted 4-8 hour horror experience and stretching it beyond the 20-hour mark. Aliens: Fireteam Elite was a fun-as-hell co-op shooter, but repetitive gameplay and light content at launch kept it […]

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‘Bad Girl Boogey’ Review – Queer Slasher Provides Gruesome Kills and Profound Social Commentary

Michelle Swope Alice Maio Mackay, Bad Girl Boogey, Chattanooga Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival 2023, Movies, Reviews

Is it possible to be filled with so much hatred and bigotry that you project it onto an inanimate object? That’s just one of the many timely themes explored in 18-year-old Alice Maio Mackay’s thrilling new slasher Bad Girl Boogey, which follows a terrifying, mysterious masked killer who horrifyingly targets transgender and queer victims in […]

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‘Creepshow’ 4K Ultra HD Review – Scream Factory Gives Fresh Life to the Quintessential Horror Anthology

Alex DiVincenzo Creepshow, George A. Romero, Home Video, Reviews, scream factory, Stephen King

Although far from the first horror anthology, Creepshow quickly established itself as the quintessential one. After several stalled attempts to work together, George A. Romero and Stephen King — two undisputed masters in their respective fields, each in their prime — finally collaborated in 1982. With both creators having grown up on EC horror comics […]

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‘Trim Season’ Review – A Bewitching Exploration of Gender, Magic, and Marijuana

Michelle Swope Chattanooga Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival 2023, Movies, Reviews, Trim Season

Cannabis is known to have many medical benefits and can be helpful with conditions like cancer, chronic pain, and PTSD. There is also evidence of marijuana being connected to spirituality and being used for ritualistic purposes throughout history. Trim Season is a fantastical and thought-provoking commentary on gender and the magical benefits of cannabis. Trim […]

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‘Tearsucker’ Review – Disappointing Stalker Story Becomes an Essay on Misogyny

Michelle Swope Chattanooga Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival 2023, Movies, Reviews, Tearsucker

It’s incredibly frustrating, to say the least, that the film industry still has so much work to do when it comes to supporting and promoting the work of female filmmakers. In fact, the industry continues to send the clear message that audiences don’t want to see stories from a female perspective told by female directors, […]

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‘Invoking Yell’ Review – Macabre Found Footage Tale from Chile Opens The Witches Bible

Michelle Swope Chattanooga Film Festival, Chattanooga Film Festival 2023, Invoking Yell, Movies, Patricio Valladares, Reviews

How far would you be willing to go to become famous? This is the question a group of three twentysomething women ask themselves when they decide to form a black metal band in Chile in the late 1990s. The band calls themselves Invoking Yell and plans a trip to a remote location in the wilderness […]

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“The Walking Dead: Dead City” Review – Episode 2 Surprises with the Return of Brutal Negan

Noah Levine Reviews, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City, TV

Our journey into apocalyptic New York City continues with “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Episode 2, titled  “Who’s There?” Continuing right where Episode 1 left off, Maggie and Negan are chasing a strange, long haired woman (Eleanor Reissa) who has swiped their bags. During the pursuit, the duo encounter ziplines that allow for traversal between […]

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‘God Is a Bullet’ Review – Maika Monroe and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Shine in Unrelenting Gauntlet of Violence

Meagan Navarro God is a Bullet, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Reviews

Writer/Director Nick Cassavetes channels the same grit of Alpha Dog for his latest, God Is a Bullet, adapted from Boston Teran‘s based-on-true-events best-selling novel. Only this time, the filmmaker doubles down on the bone-shattering violence… and the runtime. God Is a Bullet uses the sleazy criminal world, a talented pair of leads, and visceral violence to offset a straightforward narrative. Bob […]

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“Skull Island” Review – Netflix Animated Series Goes Big on Monster Adventure

Meagan Navarro Monsterverse, Netflix, Reviews, Skull Island, TV

That Legendary Television and Netflix’s animated series “Skull Island” comes from creator/writer/executive producer Brian Duffield makes perfect sense. The writer behind Underwater, Love and Monsters, and Spontaneous has already established an affinity for larger-than-life monsters, a sense of adventure, and an uncanny knack for tugging at the heartstrings in the process. All three of those elements capture the essence of the monstrously […]

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‘Camp Pickens’ Review – Archie Horror Tackles the Slasher Genre with a Fun Anthology Comic

Reyna Cervantes archie horror, Camp Pickens, Comics, Reviews

Did y’all know Archie Comics has a horror line? The company has been steadily delivering on their love of horror with titles like the zombie-filled Afterlife with Archie, the vampire slayer driven Vampironica, and the gory werewolf tale Jughead: The Hunger. Archie Horror manages to bring back the feeling of classic comics like Tales from […]

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