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“Stranger Things 4” Volume 2 Review – The Action-Heavy Fight Against Vecna Sets the Stage for Final Season!

Meagan Navarro Netflix, Reviews, Stranger Things, Stranger Things 4

The first volume of “Stranger Things 4” ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, seven episodes deep into a super-sized nine-episode season. The characters remained splintered, this time on a global scale, but significant reveals behind the season’s big bad, Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), laid the groundwork for the final confrontation. Volume 2 may pick […]

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‘Night Shift’ Review – Cat and Mouse Invasion Thriller Maintains Suspense Through Simplicity

Meagan Navarro Chattanooga 2022, Chattanooga Film Fest, night shift, Reviews

Like its title, Night Shift operates on simplicity. A lone woman in a massive factory experiences the worst possible first day of work ever when a break-in occurs. That simplicity allows directors Greg Swinson and Ryan Thiessen to cut straight to the thrills, creating a sustained level of suspense and violence throughout. It makes for an effective […]

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‘The Third Saturday in October’ Review – Slasher Homage Experiments With Nostalgia

Meagan Navarro Chattanooga 2022, Chattanooga Film Fest, Movies, Reviews, The Third Saturday in October, The Third Saturday in October Part V

For horror fans, a title like The Third Saturday in October reads as a playful spin on popular slashers like Friday the 13th. For college football fans, it’s a day on which the Alabama–Tennessee football rivalry game usually takes place, at least until 1992. Writer/Director Jay Burleson melds them together in a retro-styled slasher parody meant to be viewed after […]

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‘The Third Saturday in October Part V’ Review – Infectious Slasher Homage Recreates the Video Store Era

Meagan Navarro Chattanooga 2022, Chattanooga Film Fest, Reviews, The Third Saturday in October Part V

The Third Saturday in October Part V is technically the second entry in a slasher series– there are no Parts II, III, or IV- and the recommended starting point in your viewing. Described as a “kids movie for adults,” Part V captures the video store era, in which your rental selections were limited by availability and frequently led […]

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‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ CFF Review – ‘The Langoliers’ Gets an Innovative, Experimental Reworking

Meagan Navarro Chattanooga 2022, Chattanooga Film Festival, Movies, Reviews, The Langoliers, The Timekeepers of Eternity

The Langoliers, a 1995 TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s 1988 novella, usually ranks somewhere among the most forgotten or worst of King adaptations. At best, television’s limitations and the ‘90s CGI date the miniseries, especially once the eponymous creatures start chomping up the scenery. Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos laboriously re-edits the miniseries using paper collage techniques and […]

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‘Flux Gourmet’ Review – Peter Strickland Explores Art Through Humor, Farts, and Culinary Frights

Meagan Navarro Flux Gourmet, Peter Strickland, Reviews

Writer/Director Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric showcased the filmmaker’s unique ability to capture the senses, often sensually while exploring surreal social commentary. His latest, Flux Gourmet, once again delivers an immersive sensory experience, this time pushing further into absurdist humor with occasional toe dips into gross-out horror. While not as strong as previous efforts, Flux Gourmet’s satirical exploration of creative […]

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‘The Quarry’ Review – A Worthy Slasher Successor to ‘Until Dawn’

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Since Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn was released in 2015, it’s grown into a cult classic in a lot of circles. Fans of slashers movies, fans of choice-based narratives, fans of Hayden Panettiere and Rami Malek–Until Dawn featured something for everyone and carved its spot in horror gaming canon. But just like the myriad of sequels […]

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‘The Witch 2: The Other One’ Review – Next Chapter in Violent Action-Horror Saga Gets Bloodier and More Complex

Meagan Navarro Movies, Reviews, The Witch 2: The Other One, The Witch: Part 2 – The Other One, The Witch: Part Two – The Other One

Park Hoon-jung’s sci-fi action-horror The Witch: Part 1: The Subversion, or The Witch: Subversion, introduced a hyper-violent world of superpowered youth. It followed Ja-yoon (Da-mi Kim), an amnesiac teen who’d once fled a lab as a child and unlocked painful memories and supernatural abilities when the lab’s enforcers came to retrieve her. Part 1 ended in a bloodbath and […]

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‘Next Exit’ Tribeca Review – Supernatural Drama Ponders Life’s Meaning on Road Trip Toward Death

Meagan Navarro Mali Elfman, Movies, Next Exit, Rahul Kohli, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

Writer/director Mali Elfman’s directorial feature debut sets its story after the world has finally solved one of its most elusive questions; is there life after death? Next Exit answers that question straightaway by introducing a society that’s widely embraced the presence of ghosts, especially those of loved ones. But not all hauntings are welcome, and Elfman’s supernatural drama […]

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‘Attachment’ Tribeca Review – Romance Gets Complicated by Family Tradition and Possession

Meagan Navarro Attachment, Gabriel Bier Gislason, Movies, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

A meet-cute and whirlwind romance gets complicated by overbearing parents, and clashing religions make for a familiar setup to the romantic comedy. Writer/Director Gabriel Bier Gislason reinvigorates the concept by framing it through the lens of horror in Attachment. It’s not just an overbearing mother and Orthodox Judaism presenting roadblocks to budding love, but an ambiguous and eerie […]

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‘Family Dinner’ Tribeca Review – The Easter Holiday Brings Slow-Burn Psychological Torment

Meagan Navarro Family Dinner, Movies, Peter Hengl, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

Writer/Director Peter Hengl’s feature debut, Family Dinner, combines the discomfort and cringe of awkward family dynamics at the dinner table with holiday horror. In this instance, the holiday is Easter, a rarity in the genre space. Family Dinner unfurls its methodical slow-burn tale in the days leading up to Easter Sunday, centering volatile relationships and strict, peculiar holiday traditions to […]

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‘Huesera’ Tribeca Review – A Folktale Transforms Modern Maternal Fears Into a Nightmare

Meagan Navarro Huesera, Movies, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

La Huesera, the bone woman, is a Mexican folk tale of an older woman who wanders the desert and collects bones, often of wolves. Once she obtains all the animal’s bones, she sings by the fire and brings the animal back to life. The legend often tells of revived wolves transforming into women, running free […]

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‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review – The Trilogy Ends with a Tired Whimper

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Bloody Disgusting’s Jurassic World Dominion review is spoiler-free. The events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom saw Isla Nublar destroyed and its dinosaurs unleashed into the world by the film’s end, setting up a sequel that threatened to knock humanity out of the food chain’s top spot. Jurassic World Dominion picks up four years later. But instead of an […]

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‘Swallowed’ Overlook Review – Carter Smith’s Return to Body Horror Struggles With Tonal Shift

Meagan Navarro Jena Malone, Movies, Overlook, Overlook 2022, Reviews, Swallowed

Carter Smith’s feature debut, 2008’s The Ruins, unleashed brutal body horror, not for the squeamish. While the director’s latest, Swallowed, presents a return to the realm of body horror, it adheres closer to the queer life crisis theme of Smith’s Into the Dark: Midnight Kiss with its overarching narrative. Body horror incites a metamorphosis for its lead character and the […]

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‘After Blue’ Review – Psychedelic Phantasmagorical Voyage Overstays Its Welcome

Meagan Navarro After Blue, Bertrand Mandico, Reviews

Writer/Director Bertrand Mandico unleashes his wild imagination and flair for the surreal on screen in his trippy, sensual feature After Blue. Mandico fuses the western genre with sci-fi and fantasy, though never as straightforward as that may sound. While the heady plunge into a sumptuous dreamscape offers an immersive sensory experience unlike any other, After Blue’s overindulgent pacing and […]

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