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#Manhole is a tense thriller that will keep your guessing until the very end.
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★1/2 out ★★★★★ If you have a conventional sense of social norms.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ if you are a Troma fan and appreciate trashy and depraved satire.
Inensity: 🩸🩸 for scatalogical nastiness
Lloyd Kaufman and team Troma return to their Shakespearean roots and turn this loose-bowel take on The Tempest into a skewering of the social norms of today's culture. This is the strongest, funniest, and most consistent Troma film I have seen since the '80s Troma glory days but it also pushes the censorship limbo bar so low that there may not be room to go more lowbrow than this.
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I will give points to A Creature Was Stirring (2023) for trying to do something that was original. A were-porcupine (A Porcupinecanthrope?) is a new addition to the monster lexicon. It's a parenting horror piece. Also, a home invasion. And a drug horror story. The problem is that in execution, it never finds its proper footing, and the narrative gets lost.
★★★ out of ★★★★★
If a film title contains the word “haunting” does that automatically qualify it as a horror film? Horror has a deep and weird history with “The Haunting of…” films. Haunting in Connecticut, The Enfield Haunting, Haunting of Bly Manor, Haunting of Hill House, the Haunting of Julia, and even the Haunting of Sharon Tate. So many hauntings.
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Abigail pits a group of misfit criminals up against their captive, a little ballerina dancer named Abigail. Much to their surprise, she's a powerful vampire. The movie is action packed, with plenty of gore and laughs, but is a station to station production that while fun, telegraphs its moves well in advance. It's empty calories, but, for many fans, sometimes this is exactly what you crave.
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What do you get when you combine the voice talents of Sid Haig, Jordan Peele, and Robert Englund with a cast of creepy life-size puppets and a story that might as well have been written by Philip K Dick? It’s called Abruptio.
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Intensity 🩸🩸 for violence and slow-burning self-destruction
After Midnight is a languid, beer-soaked monster metaphor for a romantic relationship in freefall. It's a well-executed break-up movie, with terrific indie horror bona-fides, but it is also certainly not for your average horror movie fan.
★★ out of ★★★★★ When a little boy sleeps, his dreams… and his nightmares, come to life. Despite the simple...
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When slasher fans create their own movie.
Sex, drugs, rock and roll... and murder in an enjoyable but bad low-budget 90’s horror flick.
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It's all fun and games until when someone dies.
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There is no thumbs up icon for this clichéd slog about a ghost girl on a warpath.
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A disappointing sequel to a randomly fun haunted house movie.
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The Creeper is back and way less scary than ever!
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As per the norm: gruesome punishments and crooked cops at least two steps behind.
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Can a doctor Google folk legends in time to save a little boy?
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A found footage anthology, complete with a hand-written note of spookiness!
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Save yourself 90 minutes and just laugh at the trailer.
We have a very special guest! A very twisted and brilliant one at that. Emerging director Marc Martinez Jordán is here to break down his bloody debut shocker: FRAMED.
★★.5 out of ★★★★★
An exceptionally silly film that breathes some new life into a rather (un)dead horror sub-genre — zombies. As We Know It takes a couple interesting pokes at horror comedy, zombies, and the process of getting to know people that you might really hate.
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Argentina's genre darling Tamae Garateguy returns with her latest period piece/nunsploitation/occult/LGBTQ/feminist manifesto! With its World Premiere at this year's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), Garateguy's given us a lot to unpack.
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Films like Scream and its ilk are self-referential in a coy way that employ a major wink of the eye towards the audience. They’re cute and bashful about their oblique references to horror films of the 1970s and 80s. When a film names itself Bad CGI Gator it’s anything but coy, and instead opts for brash aesthetic that screams “I DON’T REALLY CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE TITLE OF MY FILM!”
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Bad Things actually has some really good things going for it. Not all these things are bad. Bad Things also has one of the coolest and most well preserved 1970/80s remote travel lodge hotels. The location is perfectly roiled in soiled dreams, loneliness, and unmet expectations. The hotel is just drenched in melancholy. But sadly, that’s Bad Things biggest problem — not the melancholy, but the fact that they wasted this incredible set.
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From producer and Japanese horror stalwart, Takashi Shimizu, comes a meandering social-horror tale of a young woman returning to visit her small hometown only to discover that life there was never as rosy as it seemed.
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Hold your breath! Black Mold is gonna get you! When two photographers try and capture the beauty of decaying structures, they get more than they bargained for in an abandoned industrial facility. Strong character studies and lovely cinematography bolster this film, which could have been more decisive about its third act structure.
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Intensity: 🩸🩸 for light body horror and paranoia
There are elements of a great survival horror tale here, but the end product is inconsistent in this half-thawed stew of madness and isolation.
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In keeping with the latest trend in J-Horror, Bldg. N (a.k.a., N-Goto) is based on true events that happened at an apartment complex in Gifu Prefecture back in 2000. Ghosts! Cultists! Corpses! Hooray!