Stir of Echoes
Writer/director David Koepp paid the ultimate tribute to an author he reveres, the oft-adapted Richard Matheson, with a top-notch screen version of his 1958 novel, A Stir of Echoes.
The Day of the Beast
A rare case of a film striking the perfect horror-comedy balance, The Day of the Beast is also an extremely rare example of a buddy flick found within genre cinema.
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Night of Fear
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.
The Golden Glove
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.
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Protected: Isolation
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Influencer
The word alone induces twinges of dread and disgust: “influencer,” along with its evil siblings “vlogger,” “social media personality,” “YouTuber,” and “TikTok sensation,” have made our depreciating society even grimmer.
The Dark Joys of Abandoning Reason
Quentin Dupieux’s singular brand of outlandish humor reaches gory new heights with Smoking Causes Coughing.
Jethica
A stalker situation gone berserk; a cursed trailer home situated in the flat vastness of chilly, rural New Mexico; a provocative, post-coital admission of murder: Jethica would seem equipped for full-blooded horror if its wider ambitions weren’t so clearly apparent.