Category: HORROR
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Despite its best efforts, My Best Friend’s Exorcism is a horror-comedy that is neither funny or scary. The latest in a line of 1980s set nostalgia trips, My Best Friend’s Exorcism is ripped straight from the pages of Grady Hendrix’s novel of the same name. There’s an annoyingly catchy pop soundtrack, terrible hair, worse fashion…
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Ultrasound
Multiple genres collide in director Rob Schroeder’s debut feature film Ultrasound. As the film opens, we meet Glen (Vincent Kartheiser), driving on a rainy night before his car runs over a crudely put together spike strip of nails and wood. He finds refuge in the nearby home of Art (Bob Stephenson) and his wife Cyndi…
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The Black Phone
After a stint in the MCU with Doctor Strange, Scott Derrickson returns to the horror genre with The Black Phone. Based on a short story by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, The Black Phone is Derrickson’s return to the genre where he made his name with the likes of The Exorcism of Emily Rose…
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DASHCAM
Back in 2020, British director Rob Savage gave us one of the most memorable horror films in recent years in Host. His use of Zoom at the height of the pandemic was used to great effect when a group of friends thought it would be a good idea to hold an online seance. What Host…
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We’re All Going To The World’s Fair
Despite a promising start, and a standout performance from Anna Cobb, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a mix of ideas that never gel and have no pay-off for the audience.
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Master
Over the past few years we have been inundated with sequels, reboots and re-quels of the established horror elite. This year alone has already brought us new entries from the Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchises, and we haven’t even got to Halloween Ends yet. Mainstream horror is still alive and kicking, and, more importantly,…
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion
It’s the dawn of the millennium, and James (Harry Shum Jr.) is working in a Chicago studio as he transfers old television broadcasts over to a new digital format. His nights are lonely and his days lonelier. James lost his wife some years earlier after she disappeared. He attends a support group, and busies himself…
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Titane
Titane is one of the most brutal, bizarre and twisting films that has been released in a long time. Director Julia Ducournau has followed up her debut effort, Raw, with a film so outlandish and unconventional but at the same time so desperately beautiful that you can see why it won over the awarding bodies…
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Scream
It has been 26 years since Wes Craven’s Scream arrived in cinemas, and the fact that we are still getting films of this quality in the franchise is remarkable in itself. There has rarely been a low since the Ghostface killer first arrived, and the calibre of the Scream films has maintained, if never bettered,…
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Malignant
The latest offering from director James Wan, is a return to his roots. After helming Aquaman and Fast & Furious 7, Wan returns to the horror genre where he made his name. Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring have all had an impact on the horror landscape, but it’s here in Malignant where Wan directs his…
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