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“Yellowjackets” Season 2 Review – Episode 2 Raises New Questions and Drives Characters Toward Madness

March 31, 2023 Meagan Navarro Reviews, Showtime, TV, Yellowjackets

The season two premiere of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” edged us closer to the long-anticipated turn to cannibalism for the survivors trapped in the wintry wilderness. Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) attempted to work through her grief and guilt over Jackie (Ella Purnell), leaving her frequently visiting and conversing with the frozen corpse. A scuffle that resulted in Jackie’s […]

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‘Malum’ Review – ‘Last Shift’ Reimagining Takes a Bigger and Bloodier Approach

March 31, 2023 Meagan Navarro Anthony DiBlasi, Jessica Sula, Last Shift, Malum, Movies, Reviews

In a rare turn of events, director/co-writer Anthony DiBlasi gives a new update to his own 2014 horror film Last Shift with Malum. DiBlasi reunites with Last Shift co-writer Scott Poiley, creating an expanded story that strengthens the original narrative and offers even bloodier occult mayhem. DiBlasi’s Malum serves as a perfect introduction to his twisted demonic realm while supporting his original film […]

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‘Smoking Causes Coughing’ Review – Absurdist Humor, Buckets of Gore, and Rubber Monsters!

March 29, 2023 Alex DiVincenzo Movies, Quentin Dupieux, Reviews, Smoking Causes Coughing

Smoking Causes Coughing is ostensibly a riff on Power Rangers/Super Sentai, Ultraman, and other tokusatsu-style media in which spandex-clad superheroes battle intergalactic monsters, but — as is the case with writer-director Quentin Dupieux’s (Rubber, Deeskin) entire filmography — his latest genre-bending slice of French absurdity is predictably unpredictable. The Tobacco Force is a team of […]

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‘Enys Men’ Review – Abstract Folk Horror Movie Favors Symbolism Over Conventional Storytelling

March 29, 2023 Meagan Navarro Enys Men, Mark Jenkin, Movies, Reviews

The old, familiar adage defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result feels at home in writer/director Mark Jenkin’s abstract folk horror feature Enys Men. Mundane, repetitive tasks eventually give way to an unhinged voyage without easy answers. While Jenkin embraces a cryptic narrative, the strong form of visual storytelling […]

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‘#chadgetstheaxe’ Review – Screenlife Horror-Comedy Is a Fun Skewering of Social Media Stardom

March 28, 2023 Matt Donato #chadgetstheax, Movies, Reviews, Travis Bible, Unnamed Footage Festival 2023

Horror’s technological evolution into Screenlife nightmares like Spree or Deadstream continues with Travis Bible’s #chadgetstheaxe, the latest skewer-happy examination of dangerous social media obsessions. It’s becoming a more challenging subgenre that requires intense authenticity in performances and digital details, especially since actual YouTubers are starting to become parodies of themselves. Bible and co-writer Kemerton Hargrove […]

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‘Dr. Giggles’ Blu-ray Review – The Doctor Is Now in High Definition Thanks to Scream Factory

March 27, 2023 Alex DiVincenzo dr. giggles, Home Video, Reviews, scream factory

After a genre-defining golden age from 1978 to 1984, slashers continued to proliferate cinemas throughout the rest of the ’80s. By the time the ’90s rolled around, however, diminishing returns for franchises and newcomers alike made it seem as though the slasher well had run dry. But, like its bottomless repository of knife-wielding villains, the […]

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“Yellowjackets” Season 2 Premiere Review – Deeply Satisfying Return Takes a Step Toward Cannibalism

March 24, 2023 Meagan Navarro Reviews, Showtime, TV, Yellowjackets

The inaugural season of “Yellowjackets” ended with winter’s arrival for the wilderness survivors in 1996 and a slew of unsettling developments for the present. The wait between seasons may finally be over but don’t expect the same when it comes to answers. “Yellowjackets” Season 2 begins with a deeply satisfying premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” that hurdles […]

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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review – Epic Action Spectacle Stretches Itself Thin But Delivers the Goods

March 24, 2023 Matt Donato Chad Stahelski, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves, Movies, Reviews

To dub John Wick: Chapter 4 one of the weaker sequels in franchise canon says more about the bulletproof exterior of Chapter 2 and Parabellum. Director Chad Stahelski abides by the country-hopping, Gun-Fu trademarks of Mr. Wick’s odyssey thus far, delivering everything longtime fans desire. Keanu Reeves headshots his way through nightlife bodyguards, action superstars […]

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‘Dredge’ Review – Eldritch Horror Fishing Game Is One of the Most Exciting Indie Titles in Years

March 23, 2023 Harrison Abbott Black Salt Games, DREDGE, Reviews, Video Games

As with any other medium, gaming phases through discrete cycles, with successive genres falling in and out of favour. The ‘90s were the heyday of mascot platformers, military shooters were all the rage towards the end of the noughties and, most recently, we’ve been living through the era of the FOMO-inducing live service. We are […]

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‘Inside’ Review – High-Concept Psychological Thriller Starring Willem Dafoe Exposes Survival’s Gross Side

March 17, 2023 Meagan Navarro Inside, Reviews, Willem Dafoe

Air, water, food, and shelter rank at the top of the basic necessities required for human survival. In Inside, writer/director Vasilis Katsoupis and co-writer Ben Hopkins wield psychological torment to posit that art should also be considered a necessity. For its art that drives a man forward in this single-location thriller that attempts to hinder survival at every turn. […]

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‘Resident Evil 4’ Review – Capcom’s Updated Remake Perfects the Survival Horror Experience

March 17, 2023 Reyna Cervantes Resident Evil, resident evil 4, Reviews, Video Games

There was a time when I personally believed that Resident Evil 4 never needed a remake. The original game that was released in 2005 has held up fantastically over the years and become such an influence on third-person action and horror games. Hell, we’re still seeing that influence in the series today as the exceptional […]

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‘Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania’ Review – Worlds Collide in Fully Satisfying DLC Update

March 17, 2023 Reyna Cervantes Castlevania, Dead Cells: REturn to Castlevania, Reviews, Video Games

I’m going to come clean and admit that Dead Cells missed my radar entirely when it first released back in 2018. The “MetroidVania” style roguelike challenges players with zipping through an ever changing environment while progressively growing stronger with each run, facing challenging bosses along the way. Where Dead Cells stands out from the crowd […]

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‘Boston Strangler’ Review – Austere Period Drama Tackles Gender, Obsession and True Crime

March 16, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alessandro Nivola, Arjun Bhasin, Bill Camp, Boston Strangler, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, David Dastmalchian, John P. Goldsmith, Keira Knightley, Matt Ruskin, morgan spector, Reviews, Ryan Winkles, true crime

The latest film from writer-director Matt Ruskin begins in media res as an attentive neighbor overhears an attack on a female tenant in the unit next door. As he bangs on the door, the words “Inspired by a True Story” appear onscreen as the attacker turns up the radio to disguise the murder. There are […]

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‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review – Gnarly Crowd Pleaser Forges Bloody New Ground for the Franchise

March 16, 2023April 21, 2023 Meagan Navarro Evil Dead Rise, featured, Lee Cronin, Reviews, SXSW, SXSW 2023, topnews

Bloody Disgusting’s Evil Dead Rise review is spoiler-free. A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates as a declaration that the latest installment of this franchise will fit snugly within the world of Evil Dead while branching out into new terrain and ideas. That means a […]

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‘Bio Zombie’ Blu-ray Review – Vinegar Syndrome Brings 1990s Hong Kong Zombie Movie Back to Life

March 15, 2023 Alex DiVincenzo Bio Zombie, Home Video, Reviews, Vinegar Syndrome

The impact of George A. Romero’s Dead movies reached far and wide. After 1968’s Night of the Living Dead defined the modern zombie as we know it, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead kick-started zombie cinema in earnest. Not only did it herald a horde of undead movies domestically, the infection spread internationally — although the […]

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