Bryan Bertino scares the daylights out of me. It’s axiomatic that horror movies are the stuff of nightmares, but I can’t think of another director whose movies so thoroughly approximate…
“This phrase ‘point of view’ has to be taken seriously,” said Serge Daney, referencing Fritz Lang’s great and Gothic Moonfleet (1955).
BY FRANK FALISI | January 13, 2025
I say “hello” into a telephone and Chucky says “hi” back. I realize that I perhaps haven’t adequately prepared myself for what this might feel like. He clears his voice and I clear mine. In that stillness, the panic passes.
BY FRANK FALISI | September 3, 2024
Though she’s not generally counted among the canon of horror’s distinguished performers, perhaps none can boast a more sprawling and diverse corpus than Carla Gugino.
BY KELLI WESTON | May 9, 2024
I’ve reached a place of acceptance where I can admit without shame that I watch scary movies between my fingers and am squeamish when...
BY MELISSA LYDE | January 31, 2023
Lucile Hadžihalilović has an exquisite talent for exploring the unique, manic hells that flow forth from helicopter parenting. That particular euphemism, however, is perhaps a bit too polite...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | August 12, 2022
Jennifer Reeder is a proudly Chicago-based, truly independent filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in the business.
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BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | May 10, 2022
Befitting a story of blue-collar desperation, Session 9 is extremely economical in its telling. From the moment the film starts...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | October 31, 2021
Lucile Hadžihalilović has an exquisite talent for exploring the unique, manic hells that flow forth from helicopter parenting. That particular euphemism, however, is perhaps a bit too polite...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | August 12, 2022
Jennifer Reeder is a proudly Chicago-based, truly independent filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in the business.
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BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | May 10, 2022
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
