The line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival has been announced: Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire; Iko Uwais and Julie Estelle return in Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel’s Headshot; Morgan Spurlock’s Rats; Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe; Adam […]
At The Feminine Critique Emily and Christine watch The First Power and Blood Creek. “Welcome to this super occult and horse-stomping heavy episode, where Christine humors Emily on a trip back through memory lane for 1990’s The First Power and Emily humors Christine’s weird fascination with 2008’s Blood […]
“It could be said that the length and breadth of Indonesian horror queen Suzzanna’s career was, to a certain extent, determined by the number of vengeful female spirits that could be found in Indonesian folklore. Fortunately for her, there were a lot. The Queen of the South Seas, […]
For anyone with a body, it’s no surprise that there is a genre of film dealing entirely with our seemingly never-ending battle with our own mortal coils. The human body is often private enemy number one for those who inhabit it, and there are times when it seems […]
Fusion argues for adaptations of Octavia Butler’s science fiction and horror. “There is no better time for Octavia Butler’s work to be adapted. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she did not deal with robots, mechanized suits of war, or quantum physics. She eschewed these to explore aliens, mutants […]
This week our friends at the Projection Booth watch Georges Franju’s Eyes Without A Face, “an atmospheric ‘anguish story’ about a young woman who’s lost her face and the overbearing father who works to give her a new one.”
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