Item 1 on my list of demands to be met before returning to regular Mass on Sundays is the canonization of...
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It’s both a mystery and a shame that Joel Anderson has directed only one feature, emerging out of nowhere to unleash a film that has slowly gained cult status...
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There is a deep sense of overwhelming sadness that pervades Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter. Oil workers for or North Industries, run by Ed Pollack...
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Like the best fairy tales, which often portray darkness through the lens of childhood innocence, Laurín tells a dreamily surreal story of hardened...
BY LAURA KERN | March 17, 2022
Four brave souls accept the offer (and sizable amounts of cash) from its new owner to spend one week at Belasco House...
BY LAURA KERN | December 26, 2024
A lipstick and makeup mirror slip from fear-frozen hands, a sack spills corn flour along a grassy trail, a ball floats atop a geyser of water, the rattlesnake whir of castanets...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 29, 2025
While it predates the entire Italian zombie phenomenon, the Spanish/Italian co-production...
BY LAURA WYNNE | November 16, 2024
Jean Rollin’s debut, The Rape of the Vampire, was the only film to premiere in Paris during...
BY LAURA WYNNE | February 15, 2025
Marie Belloc Lowndes’s 1913 novel The Lodger—an expansion of her short story of the same name—has been an enticing proposition for filmmakers...
BY COLIN FLEMING | June 3, 2025
Meet the right ghosts in your formative years—or help someone else to do the same in theirs—and a lifelong love of the stories and films in which they feature...
BY COLIN FLEMING | October 31, 2025
“On the rare occasion, a special child appears…” I first watched The Lords of Salem in an empty multiplex in Easton, PA, in 2013. After 10 minutes, I had to go ask...
BY LAURA WYNNE | October 26, 2024
