Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (2007) is less a movie and more being shoved into a Party City in late September. It is a haunted hayride where you’re not entirely sure all the people on the trail are actors. It is lighting a three-wick candle that has a […]
At Fantastic Fest this year, I was not only fortunate enough to receive accreditation so I could see movies and report back, but I was also lucky enough to see four very different films that I might not see otherwise. I am back now, my fedora with the […]
The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is familial and imperial history reaching back to World War II and even further. And if there are not precisely demons in the film, well, there are things that are close enough.
Sachin Hingoo saw a couple of pretty filthy movies at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and is better for it!
It’s already steamy where I am–90 F and a thunderstorm is coming in. Everyone is getting their Pride outfits and do’s together. Summer is basically here. Maybe you’re getting ready to go camping or making plans for a trip to the beach. Maybe you’ve even booked a hotel […]
It would be pretty easy to say that by the sixth entry into the Final Destination franchise–leaving aside that we perhaps need to stage an intervention with this series’ creatives about the meaning of the word ‘final’–that the gimmick has run dry. What evolved, or rather, did not […]
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