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Consider the Dies Irae. Eight dire notes to remind you that you are going to die. This musical phrase from a 13th-century plainchant about Judgment Day booms famously over the opening helicopter shot in The Shining.
The directorial debut of veteran character actor Charles Martin Smith, Trick or Treat (1986), tells a story grounded in rites, rituals, and rock. Its inaugural sequence, a bravura portrait of suburban teenage alienation, locates its protagonist, baby-faced headbanger Eddie...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 31, 2023
One need only watch a few moments of Peter Strickland’s films to realize that the British-born, Hungary-based director is a stickler for detail.
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | June 24, 2022
Within Michael Mann’s oeuvre of slick urban crime dramas and thrillers, his lone horror-fantasy film The Keep is an overlooked outlier, virtually ignored since its initial release in 1983.
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | October 31, 2021
Birthed during the cultural thaw that immediately followed the end of the Franco dictatorship, Basque writer-director and designer Iván Zulueta's 1979 feature Arrebato erupts like a massive discharge of so much repressed anxiety and despair.
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BY LAURA KERN | Month 00, 2021
Beast is a lot of movies in one package - fractured fairy tale, belated-coming-of-age story, psychological drama, regional horror film - but above all it's a calling card for its leading lady, Jessie Buckley.
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BY STEVEN MEARS | Month 00, 2021
In what could be the fastest-resulting rape revenge movie, a drunken lout brutally forces himself on Ida, the young woman who doesn't return his affections, during a party over Labor Day.
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BY LAURA KERN | Month 00, 2021
Beast is a lot of movies in one package - fractured fairy tale, belated-coming-of-age story, psychological drama, regional horror film - but above all it's a calling card for its leading lady, Jessie Buckley.
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BY STEVEN MEARS | Month 00, 2021