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“Tales of the Walking Dead” Review – Season Finale “La Doña” Swings Big With Supernatural Haunted House Story

Noah Levine Reviews, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead, TV

For the season finale of the first “The Walking Dead” anthology series, “Tales of the Walking Dead” delivers an unexpected supernatural haunted house story set amidst the zombie apocalypse. Directed by Deborah Kampmeier (“Clarice”), “La Doña” follows a survivor couple – Eric (Danny Ramirez) and Idalia (Daniella Pineda) – as they make an eerie, candle-lit […]

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‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review – Glamorous Sci-Fi Thriller Struggles to Surprise

Meagan Navarro Don't Worry Darling, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Movies, Olivia Wilde, Reviews

Florence Pugh once again finds herself starring in a genre film where an idyllic community uses welcoming perfection as a veneer to hide more insidious secrets. Don’t Worry Darling sees Pugh as a doting ’50s housewife in a picturesque suburban community who quickly finds herself alone in realizing something’s deeply amiss. While the thriller boasts no shortage […]

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“Inside No. 9” Season 7 Review – British Anthology Series Just Keeps Getting Better

Paul Lê Inside No. 9, Reece Shearsmith, Reviews, Steve Pemberton, TV

Inside No. 9, one of the best anthology series in recent years, returns with a seventh installment. Creators and co-stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are back to make audiences laugh and shiver with these six diverse tales of various genres. And fans of the eerie and unexplained will surely enjoy this new batch of […]

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‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review – Naomi Watts Delivers a Captivating Performance

Meagan Navarro Goodnight Mommy, Movies, Naomi Watts, Reviews

Naomi Watts (The Ring, Funny Games) once again leads an American remake of an acclaimed international horror film. This time, she stars in an English language update of the 2014 Austrian horror movie by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, Goodnight Mommy. This remake may not drastically shake up the story, but it does alter its […]

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‘Venus’ TIFF Review – Jaume Balagueró Gives Modern, Bloody Update to Lovecraft Story

Meagan Navarro Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balaguero, Movies, Reviews, TIFF, TIFF 2022, Venus

Producer Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast) enlisted horror director Jaume Balagueró (REC, Sleep Tight) to helm the newest entry in his feature film series “The Fear Collection.” Balagueró teamed with Verónica scribe Fernando Navarro to co-write Venus, a blood-drenched and modern update to H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House.” A violent crime thriller gets applied to the Lovecraftian tale, […]

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‘The People’s Joker’ Review – A Queer Coming of Age Batman Tale

Joe Lipsett Bri LeRose, Christian Calloway, David Liebe Hart, Griffin Kramer, Kane Distler, Lynn Downey, Movies, Nathan Faustian, Reviews, The People's Joker, TIFF, TIFF 2022, Vera Drew

The People’s Joker opens with a disclaimer: “This film is a parody and is at the present time completely unauthorized by DC Comics, Warner Brothers, or anyone claiming ownership of the trademarks therein…” The fact that the film, which was directed, cut and performed by Vera Drew from a script by Drew and Bri LeRose, […]

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“Vampire Academy” Review – Peacock Series Is a Convoluted Bore

Joe Lipsett Andre Dae Kim, Andrew Liner, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Daniela Nieves, J. August Richards, Jason Diaz, Joseph Ollman, Julie Plec, Kieron Moore, Marguerite MacIntyre, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Nikol Kollars, Peacock, Reviews, Rhian Blundell, Sisi Stringer, TV, vampire academy

Each of the first four episodes of Vampire Academy, the new YA series from creators Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre, opens with a quick sequence outlining the three principal roles that characters occupy. The first are the Moroi, vampires (some royal, some not) who have magical Elemental powers, but are basically powerless to defend themselves. […]

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‘Baby Ruby’ Review – Maternal Horror Movie Seeks to Destigmatize Postpartum Psychosis

Meagan Navarro Baby Ruby, Reviews, TIFF, TIFF 2022

Motherhood is terrifying. Every aspect of becoming a new mother breeds terror and anxiety, from giving birth to a mother’s identity post-baby, and countless horror movies have explored just about every facet of it over the decades. Yet horror always finds something new to say. Writer/Director Bess Wohl’s debut feature, Baby Ruby, uses psychological horror to put […]

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‘The Blackening’ Review – All-Black Slasher Is Equal Parts Comedy and Commentary

Joe Lipsett Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Diedrich Bader, Grace Byers, Jay Pharaoh, Jermaine Fowler, juneteenth, Melvin Gregg, Movies, Reviews, Sinqua Walls, The Blackening, TIFF, TIFF 2022, TIFF 22, Tim Story, Tracy Oliver, X Mayo, Yvonne Orji

Director Tim Story’s slasher The Blackening has a killer premise: if all of the characters are Black, who dies first? In the adaptation of 3peat’s Comedy Central short, co-writers Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver strand a group of friends at a remote cottage in the woods for Juneteenth (yes holiday horror!). Unbeknownst to them, the […]

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‘MaXXXine’ – Ti West Teases That Third ‘X’ Movie Is Inspired by the VHS Boom of the 1980s

Meagan Navarro Maxxxine, Mia Goth, Pearl, Reviews, Ti West, X

Ti West’s X prequel, Pearl, screened last night at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of its Midnight Madness lineup. The most shocking part, perhaps, is what came after the screening. A quick VHS-style teaser popped up post credits to reveal a 1985 setting and a title card: MaXXXine. A third movie that’s coming soon from West and […]

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‘Pearl’ Review – Mia Goth Has That ‘X’ Factor in Ti West’s Gorgeous Technicolor Nightmare

Meagan Navarro Maxxxine, Mia Goth, Movies, Pearl, Reviews, Ti West, X

Bloody Disgusting’s Pearl review is spoiler-free. Writer/Director Ti West nestled his ode to independent, exploitation filmmaking into ‘70s set slasher X. For its prequel, West rewinds the clock much further to pay tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Mia Goth reprises her role as the repressed killer Pearl, this time exploring a much different, younger side. Pearl makes for […]

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‘Immortality’ Review – New Video Game Crafts Haunting Hollywood Tale for Players to Dive Into

Aaron Boehm immortality, Reviews, Video Games

Many developers try to make ‘cinematic’ games. Quantic Dream and Supermassive create interactive movies, featuring scenes punctuated by quick time events or story choices, while Kojima Productions inserts long, lavishly directed sequences, generally requiring no interaction from the player. Immortality, the latest game from Sam Barlow’s Half Mermaid, shows its love of cinema in a […]

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‘Sick’ Review – Kevin Williamson’s Return Is a White-Knuckle Slasher That Goes Hard

Joe Lipsett Bethlehem Million, Dylan Sprayberry, Gideon Adlon, John Hyams, Katelyn Crabb, Kevin Williamson, Movies, Reviews, Sick, TIFF, TIFF 2022, TIFF 22

Sick, the new slasher/home invasion film written by Kevin Williamson and Katelyn Crabb, opens with a mini-scroll. In addition to reminding audiences about the early onslaught of COVID, orders to self-isolate and the early death toll, there is a key establishing date: April 3, 2020. The date is paramount in establishing the context for Sick. […]

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‘The Eternal Daughter’ TIFF Review – A Gothic Family Drama That Struggles to be Memorable

Joe Lipsett Carly-Sophia Davies, Joanna Hogg, Joseph Mydell, Movies, Reviews, The Eternal Daughter, TIFF, TIFF 2022, Tilda Swinton

Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter begins like so many Gothic stories before it: a car driving along a foggy backwoods road en route to a nearly deserted mansion. The house in question is actually a hotel – one where Julie (Tilda Swinton) and her mother (also Swinton) will be staying for a few days to […]

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‘The Retaliators’ Review – A Nightmarish Rock and Roll Tale of Grief and Revenge

Michelle Swope ice nine kills, Movies, Reviews, The Retaliators, Tommy Lee

Sometimes people get away with awful things. While everyone agrees there should be punishment for crimes like rape and murder, people often debate what the appropriate consequences should be for committing these kinds of crimes. After Jeff and Darren Geare’s younger sister was viciously assaulted and raped in 2004, it took 12 years for her […]

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