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Joseph reviews Takeshi Kushida's FrightFest feature MY MOTHER'S EYES, "which blends psychological and physical horror in a remarkable studied but immediate manner. "
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We know them. We love them. They’re little rapscallions, religious zealots, and outcasts. But that’s why we love them! That said, the question is not whether we love them, but rather do we need to go back to the exact same Children of the Corn story 11 times. Really, it’s been 11 times and we’re not even counting the TV series.
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Joseph reviews French mystery thriller OUR FATHER, THE DEVIL.
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Joseph reviews the German shocker HOME SWEET HOME: WHERE EVIL LIVES, which screened at FrightFest.
THE KNOCKING (2023)
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HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (2023)
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Joseph reviews two solid films from London's Pigeon Shrine FrightFest.
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What do you get when you combine Doug Bradley, religious horror, practical effects, signals from space, and a cool retro vibe? Who cares! It's DOUG BRADLEY!
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A tense, character-driven survival flick played against a background of feuding paramilitary groups and an epidemic of zombie infection.
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In the latest installment to the cringe-inducing horror sub-genre, Home Invasion Horror, we get a fair-to-midland entry with a little heart. Think Funny Games, but less terror, suspense, and sadism. Just some light torture and some fun cameos.
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Hundreds of Beavers is a genre and expectation defying film. It is a black and white "silent" black comedy, using furries and Looney Tunes manic comic violence to huge effect. This indie darling has been racking up best-of-film awards at numerous film festivals, and The Scariest Things can thank the Popcorn Frights Film Festival for this screening. One of the funniest things you are likely to see, and a big theater showing would be a blast. (Only horror adjacent though)
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Imagine if Terrance Malik directed a horror film. This isn’t the start of a bad joke with an equally bad punchline. Would it have gore? Chainsaws? Over the top supernatural happenings? Or would it be a somber and contemplative affair? If you know the films of Terrance Malik then you know the answer.
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In the proud Canadian tradition of sex, disease, and madness, Wintertide follows a woman struggling with depression in a post apocalyptic winter where the sun hasn't come up in 100 days and people are turning into unthinking strays, gone mad from isolation and lonliness.
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101 Books to Read Before You're Murdered gives you the joy of the school book fair- but makes it scary!
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Japanese time-looping science fiction comedy RIVER is a whimsical delight!
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A struggling married couple who have been evicted from their home makes a fateful decision to sleep the night in their car on a wooded road. At times thrilling, and at other times head scratching, this film has a great heart but a flawed mind. Convincing performances by Tedra Milan and Michael Reagan make this worth watching.
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Skinamarink with real scares! Found footage follies! The year of Australian horror! Puzzle Box is the complete horror spook show!
If you haven’t been paying attention 2023 really is the year of Australian horror.
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Sorry Charlie is a one-woman showcase for actress Kathleen Kenny, who plays Charlie, a crisis hotline volunteer who survives a serial rapist attack, but is convinced that he is still stalking her. A great cat and mouse thriller with a compelling central figure who has managed to avoid being just another victim.
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Pandemonium is a philosophical, black comedy horror trip...to hell!
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Horror maestro André Øvredal has turned the story of Dracula into a 19th Century period piece version of Alien. A doomed ship of sailors are unknowingly transporting Dracula in his coffin to England, and a merchantman sailing vessel is a perfect hiding place for the devil that is Dracula. The much anticipated movie is dreadful, as in FULL OF DREAD. About as scary as you're going to be able to get with Dracula.
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Tourists in Eastern Europe meet the wrong locals in Eight Eyes.
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Signs, Omens, Feng Shui and a serial killer...MAD FATE
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In SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, Nicolas Cage's character is hell bent on revenge.
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#Manhole is a tense thriller that will keep your guessing until the very end.
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Remember Witchboard? The Tawny Kitaen led Ouija Board camp classic? How well does it hold up to today's standards? It's earnest. It tries hard. But it's as stiff as the Ouija Board itself. Read on for more conclusions!
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The Czech Republic is serving up one of the best Sci-fi thrillers of the year!
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It’s not a sharksploitation film unless someone yells “get out of the water!"
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep is a lush and dreamy warning to stay out of the woods.
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Joseph reviews new "Supernatural --- or is it?" shocker COBWEB.
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After one look at him, decide for yourself whether Vincent Must Die.
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Do weird-looking albino kids give you the chills? What about oddball kids that have been indoctrinated into a religious fervor? What about strange kids set in a 1980s Giallo-esque Spanish village? Well, Tin and Tina has all this and more.
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The slow-burn folkloric feature The Seeding follows an oblivious photographer who gets trapped in the bottom of a desert crater, whose only inhabitant is a lovely young woman, and a pack of nasty feral boys preventing his escape. What do they want? What does SHE want? This was one of BiFan's Bucheon Choice film selections.