In Review
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🇵🇸Palestinian Film Fest 2024 Review - A House in Jerusalem
Factually, this film is about the stain that the 1948 Nakba left on its people. Symbolically, it’s about children who are trapped in a cycle of trauma that they will never outlive. It’s terrifying to think of the thousands of children who this story now belongs to, but it is important not to look away.
Film Review - Baghead
Based on his 2017 short film of the same name, Alberto Corredor’s Baghead is a horror film about a young woman who inherits her father's pub, only to find out there's a supernatural entity in the basement with the ability to take on the form of dead loved ones.
Film Review - Thanksgiving
Leaving little room for seconds, Thanksgiving reminds us to be thankful for the simple pleasures that horror brings, and not unlike the dishes that might adorn a festive dinner table, there's plenty of corn to go around.
Film Review - Five Nights at Freddy’s
Serviceable but not particularly functional, Five Nights at Freddy's is a horror film that's as clunky and awkward as the lumbering animal robots it revolves around.
Film Review - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
While Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is not the most audience (or even fan) friendly experience around, it's a devastating look at a life cut short.
Film Review - The Exorcist: Believer
Despite some initial promise, The Exorcist: Believer is a half-hearted attempt at best, and complacent with mediocrity at worst.
Film Review - It Lives Inside
Overall, It Lives Inside illustrates itself to be a unique conceptual endeavour which struggles under the weight of its own potential. Although somewhat competent in facets of its execution, it ultimately sabotages its potency and settles upon a derivatively restrained final product which unfortunately struggles to leave a lasting impression.
Film Review - The Nun II
While The Nun II isn't exactly breathing new life into the genre, horror fans should find themselves satisfied, offering a course correction after the first entry underwhelmed.
MIFF 2023 Film Review - Late Night With the Devil
Late Night with the Devil is destined to be a halloween cult classic.
MIFF 2023 Film Review - Phenomena
Featuring Argento at his most feverishly creative, Phenomena lives up to its title, providing an experience that's as difficult to rationalise as it is rare to come by.
Film Review - Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter
Voyage of the Demeter's real problem is that the audience already knows where the map leads, and the film does little in its way to add any bite.
Film Review - Talk to Me
Talk to Me is another solid addition in the outback horror canon - a beating heart, pumping with fresh blood.
Film Review - Insidious: The Red Door
It might appeal to die-hard fans who want to see how it all ends, but for casual viewers who are looking for a fresh and exciting horror experience, it winds up feeling more like this door could've stayed shut.
Film Review - The Boogeyman
The Boogeyman is a decent horror film that delivers on the prerequisite jumps and jolts, despite sometimes falling into the trappings that come with elaborating on succinct source material.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Audition (2K Restoration)
With gut-wrenching violence and disruptive themes, and its critique of gender roles and cultural norms in Japan, cinephiles and fans of the more gruesome side of life ought to catch this slow-burning, thought-provoking thriller.
Film Review - The Pope’s Exorcist
While The Pope's Exorcist won't be everyone's cup of tea, for horror fans willing to drop their guard a little bit and embrace a film that's more silly than scary, it's just good, dumb fun.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Beaten to Death
Beaten to Death is an uncompromising and particularly nasty slice of Ozploitation that mostly delivers on the bluntness of its title, with a few neat cinematic tricks up its sleeve.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - The Outwaters
The Outwaters is a found-footage horror film that takes the genre to new extremes of experimentation.
Film Review - Evil Dead Rise
Lee Cronin's latest stab Evil Dead Rise carves out new horizons for the horror franchise, while still boasting enough of the strengths of what came before.
Film Review - Scream VI
We've gotten particularly nasty Ghostfaces two years in a row, but since their creator's passing, the actual films seem trapped in a creative rut, doomed to sacrifice the slick edge that the series was once celebrated for in service of broad appeal.