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Angel Dust (1994) is an energetically bleak film about the terrific ease with which we surrender our minds. Anyone who has been on the Yamanote loop service in Tokyo at 6 p.m. on a Monday knows something about silent surrender…
It’s been regularly cautioned that The Golden Glove isn’t for the faint of heart, and while that might be a fair assessment, such warnings may needlessly scare off potential admirers. Anyone going into a film depicting the inner workings of a real-life serial killer already knows…
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BY VIOLET LUCCA | October 31, 2021
One of the earliest memories I have is of my father pointing over to an abandoned rowboat in Dublin’s River Tolka and quite matter-of-factly stating that “a monster lives in there.”
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BY GLENN McQUAID | October 31, 2021
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BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | October 31, 2021
The TV is always on in Fatal Pulse. Set in 1991, the underground horror legend Damon Packard’s latest film is drenched in pinkish-bluish gel lighting, a movie-world glow enveloping all in its path—especially antihero Trent Dupont...
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BY CHLOE LIZOTTE | October 31, 2021
An interesting piece of Australian horror history is that one of the first examples of the genre wasn’t meant to be a feature film at all. Night of Fear was originally intended as the pilot of a TV series called Fright, but was—not at all surprisingly—rejected.
BY LAURA KERN | November 23, 2023
When Paul Vecchiali passed away early this year at the age of 92, he left behind a prolific legacy of films. An established director and the founder of the progressive production company Diagonale, he died more highly regarded in Europe than in the U.S., where he was practically unknown...
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | November 15, 2023
The way horror film series typically work is that the first entry is notable, for whatever reason—it’s a great movie, it’s popular, it infiltrates the news cycle/culture—and then subsequent...
BY COLIN FLEMING | October 31, 2023
The directorial debut of veteran character actor Charles Martin Smith, Trick or Treat (1986), tells a story grounded in rites, rituals, and rock.
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 31, 2023
Beware the autumn people. You know who you are. Curled up under a blanket each October rereading Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
BY TOM PHELAN | October 31, 2023
The title of Demián Rugna’s new horror opus is something of a misnomer: moving at a swift pace over the course of 99 minutes, When Evil Lurks lurches right into motion rather than lurks. The film hits the ground running...
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | October 30, 2023
Pauline Kael’s New Yorker review of The Exorcist was published the first week of January 1974, just after the film’s intentionally provocative Christmastime release.
BY NICHOLAS RUSSELL | October 13, 2023
It’s often said that you can pick your friends but not your family. Yet in an age of mass communication, it’s never been easier to track down an absentee dad or quietly unfriend...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | October 8, 2023
Sébastien Marnier’s second feature may be cursed with a generic English title, but the film immediately dispels any semblance of the ordinary with one of the most...
BY LAURA KERN | October 8, 2023
RAVENOUS
At this crazy moment, when film history is caught in the grip of multiple clichés that grind on and on and on...
BY KENT JONES | September 10, 2023
The question of possession looms over The Haunting (1963), with regards to both Hill House, the labyrinthine Victorian mansion in which most of the action takes place...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | September 10, 2023
The influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on motion pictures can be traced back to the early years of cinema, and reanimating the dead has since grown into...
BY LAURA KERN | August 18, 2023
Last night I watched myself sleep then I flew away, a young boy named Dalton writes...
BY NICHOLAS RUSSELL | Updated July 11, 2023
One of the most revelatory film experiences of my childhood was watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat with my grandparents when I was 10. I can’t remember the exact circumstances...
BY WILLIAM BOYLE | June 9, 2023
I’ve reached a place of acceptance where I can admit without shame that I watch scary movies...
BY MELISSA LYDE | January 31, 2023
