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‘Lord of Illusions’ 30 Years Later – Is Clive Barker’s Forgotten Movie Worth a Revisit?

Geof Capodanno Clive Barker, Home Video, lord of illusions, Movies, Reviews, Umbrella Entertainment

Note: This review is based on the Director’s Cut. Umbrella Entertainment resurrected a forgotten flick from the mid-90s with their Blu-ray release of Lord of Illusions last year. Back in 1995, writer-director Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) ventured outside his normal horror otherworld playground to deliver this unconventional story that is part film noir and part […]

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Arrow Video Brings the Ultimate Presentation of ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ to 4K for Halloween [Review]

Alex DiVincenzo Arrow Video, Home Video, Michael Dougherty, Reviews, Trick r Treat

The bungling of Trick ‘r Treat by Warner Bros. — shelving it after well-received festival screenings before unceremoniously dumping it straight to DVD in 2009 — is well-documented, but had it received a traditional theatrical release and underperformed, there’s a chance it may have never entered the cultural zeitgeist. Instead, its authentic cult roots allowed […]

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‘Psychonaut’ Journeys to the Darkest Recesses of the Mind But Gets Lost On the Way Out [Review]

Daniel Kurland BHFF, BHFF 24, Brooklyn Horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Fiona Dourif, Julia Batelaan, Movies, Psychonaut, Reviews, Thijs Meuwese

Psychonaut begins with a concise definition of its titular concept — a person who explores altered states of consciousness within the human mindscape — only to infinitely double-down on the idea’s most terrifying consequences. Yes, a psychonaut explores altered consciousness, but they’re also subjected to the many dangerous and destructive impulses that flood the human […]

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Marvel’s ‘Alien: Romulus’ Prequel Comic Book Delivers Inessential Backstory to the Movie [Review]

Harrison Abbott Alien, Alien: Romulus, Comics, Reviews

When Alien: Romulus hit multiplex screens this summer, it raised a handful of questions. Some of the more burning queries included: “Who is the father of Kay’s baby?” (to which the answer is resoundingly grim), “Is Rain’s dream home of Yvaga all it’s cracked up to be?” and “Who, of sound body & mind, would […]

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‘Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered’ Keeps Its 2011 Immaturity, for Better and for Worse [Review]

Harrison Abbott grasshopper manufacture, Nintendo Switch, PC, playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Reviews, Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered, steam, Video Games, xbox one, Xbox Series

“Johnson’s Boner can now turn into a HOTBONER! While holding aim, hold the secondary fire button to charge, then release it to deploy your sticky payload.” Were that tutorial popup to appear in literally any other video game, it might raise an eyebrow or two. Yet by the time you’ve reached the relevant juncture in […]

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‘Gazer’ Is Nihilistic Neo-Noir That Runs Cold [Review]

Daniel Kurland Ariella Mastroianni, BHFF, BHFF 24, Brooklyn Horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Gazer, Movies, neo-noir, Reviews, Ryan J. Sloan

Gazer, at its core, is a film about voyeurism and humanity’s innate compulsion to not just want to be voyeurs, but to understand and make sense of the people who are being spied on. People, by nature, have an urge to act as a storyteller and connect disparate ideas, even if they don’t naturally go […]

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‘Don’t Move’ Review – Netflix’s Inert Survival Thriller Plays It Safe and Bland

Meagan Navarro don't move, Movies, Netflix, Reviews, Sam Raimi

The hook for Netflix’s high-concept thriller Don’t Move, produced by Sam Raimi, dangles the potential for a breathless thrill ride. A suicidal woman finds herself at the mercy of a killer who’s injected her with a paralytic, lending a new twist to the conventional cat-and-mouse thriller scenario. The scant 90-minute runtime only furthers the expectation […]

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‘A Nurse’s Revenge’ Is a Classic Lifetime Thriller [Review]

Joe Lipsett Carissa Murray, Daniel West, David Benullo, Joe Sterry, Kristina Clifford, lifetime, Movies, Noémi VanSlyke, Reviews, Shea Pritchard, Tammy-Anne Fortuin

With a title like A Nurse’s Revenge, there’s no pretense about who the “villain” of the piece is. Thankfully this is never an issue for screenwriter Daniel West, who delivers a classic Lifetime film that never disguises the fact that it’s a thriller, not a mystery. The opening of the film is particularly efficient in […]

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‘A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead’ Screams Tension While Offering an Emotional Narrative [Review]

Harrison Abbott A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, PC, PlayStation 5, Reviews, saber interactive, steam, Stormind Games, Video Games, Xbox Series

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is not the first horror game to feature blind enemies that are hypersensitive to the sounds you make. House of Ashes has its gnarly space-vampires that rely on echolocation to get around, The Last of Us has its iconic Clickers — caked in fungi that obscures all but their […]

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‘The Line’ Is a Scathing Indictment of Frat Culture [Review]

Joe Lipsett Alex Russek, Alex Wolff, Austin Abrams, bo mitchell, cheri oteri, Denise Richards, Ethan Berger, John Malkovich, Lewis Pullman, Reviews

There’s a micro and a macro narrative at work in writer/director Ethan Berger’s fraternity thriller The Line. On one hand, it’s a small-scale drama about Tom Backster (Alex Wolff), a promising young man who begins to question his involvement in a fraternity at prestigious Sumter College. On the grand scale, it’s a scathing indictment of […]

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‘Grafted’ Feels Like ‘The Substance’ Meets Takashi Miike [Review]

Daniel Kurland BHFF, BHFF 24, body horror, Brooklyn Horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Grafted, Joyena Sun, Movies, New Zealand, Reviews, Sasha Rainbow

It’s incredibly human to want to be seen and accepted, warts and all. It’s a deeply vulnerable experience and territory that can be ripe for horror as characters reach troubling breaking points in order to become popular and stop feeling like an outcast. People will do whatever it takes to fit in, even if that […]

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‘Family Pack’ Review – A Charming Adventure Through Time… with Werewolves

Meagan Navarro Family Pack, Jean Reno, Netflix, Reviews

Netflix’s Family Pack, based on the game Werewolves of Millers Hollow created by Philippe Des Pallières & Hervé Marly and published by Asmodee Group, isn’t the first feature based on a werewolf whodunnit mystery game that’s designed to induce paranoia amongst players. It’s also not the first to mine that setup for laughs over scares, […]

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“The Lake House” DLC Is a Tightly-Paced Welcome Addition to the ‘Alan Wake 2’ Mythology [Review]

Aaron Boehm Alan Wake II, control, epic games, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Remedy Entertainment, Reviews, The Lake House, Video Games

One of the things that makes Alan Wake 2 a masterpiece is its ability to juggle multiple tones. It’s a dark detective story. It’s a metafictional surrealist horror story. It’s got humor, scares, and even a full-on musical number. Remedy flexed their tonal muscles earlier this year with Alan Wake 2’s first DLC, Night Springs, […]

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‘Jimmy and Stiggs’ Is a Neon-Soaked, Cocaine-Fueled Alien Assault [Review]

Daniel Kurland Alien, BHFF, BHFF 24, Brooklyn Horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Jimmy & Stiggs, Joe Begos, Matt Mercer, Movies, Reviews

2020’s COVID-19 pandemic was a weird, isolating time, particularly for filmmakers and natural storytellers. Joe Begos’ Jimmy and Stiggs isn’t about the pandemic or even set during that period, but it’s a movie that was born out of this event and is very much in conversation with this challenging, reflective, isolating time. And it’s DIY […]

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‘Sayara’ Is Harrowing Revenge Horror That’s Ruthless & Relentless [Review]

Daniel Kurland BHFF, BHFF 24, Brooklyn Horror, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Can Evrenol, Duygu Kocabiyik, Movies, Reviews, Sayara

Revenge stories are one of horror’s most popular sub-genres that range from arthouse endeavors, to gritty grindhouse fare, to pulpy “torture porn” and everything in between. Turkish filmmaker Can Evrenol, who previously struck gold with the surreal and suffocating Baskin and Housewife, tries his hand in this territory and strikes a rich vein that bleeds […]

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