Tag: review
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Interview with Grafted director Sasha Rainbow – Offscreen Central
Sasha Rainbow’s narrative feature debut tells a poignant story of beauty, blood, and a search for belonging. Unafraid of showing the reality of the world we live in, Rainbow’s creative and trailblazing approach to documentary filmmaking lends itself beautifully to the world of horror. Offscreen Central had the opportunity to talk with director Sasha Rainbow…
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Bystanders – Review
Directed by Mary Beth McAndrews, Dread Central’s fearless editor-in-chief, Bystanders certainly brings a fresh perspective to the rape-revenge genre. The premise is par for the course when it comes to what audiences expect from this genre: Abby and her friends are drugged and assaulted by boys at a party, then left in the woods while…
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Grafted – Review | MovieJawn
Beauty is a bloody endeavor in the New Zealand coming-of-age horror story Grafted, because there is no better way to explore the extent someone will go to feel comfortable in their own skin than through the lens of body-horror.
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The Damned – Review | Offscreen Central
Now streaming is Thordur Palsson’s The Damned, an icy film for us to cuddle up while we hang on to these last couple months of winter. Hiding in the darkness of these long chilly nights are the ghosts of our past, haunting us with the guilt we harbor.
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Why Lily-Rose Depp Deserves Her Flowers | Offscreen Central
Beginning her acting career in the world of horror with 2014’s Tusk, Lily-Rose Depp has thrust herself back into the genre and into the throws of a gothic nightmare. Nominated in 2017 and 2019 for multiple Most Promising Actress awards, that promise is coming to fruition with her revelatory performance as Ellen Hutter in Robert…
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Session 9 – Video Essay | JoBlo
What better setting for a horror film than a haunted insane asylum? Whether it’s the patients in a film like The Ward, or the ghost hunting crews of films like Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum or Grave Encounters, it’s always thrilling to watch characters navigate these chilling halls, unsure of what might be lurking. One such film…
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The Creep Tapes – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
First premiering ten years ago, Creep (2014) has become a cult classic, especially for fans of found footage. Known by various names like Josef and Wolfy, Mark Duplass’s character has become everyone’s favorite fictional serial killer. His charm lures you in and it is not until it is too late that you notice the strangeness…
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Drive Back – Screamfest Review | MovieJawn
One little sub-genre, or you could even say micro-genre, that I enjoy is “vacations gone wrong.” Sometimes this means films of the “torture porn” variety like Hostel, or killer plants like The Ruins, and everyone’s favorite backwoods murderous cannibal families like in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, or Wrong Turn. With…
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Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
It is no surprise that one of my favorite films of Fantastic Fest 2024 is by Stuart Ortiz, better known as half of the directing team The Vicious Brothers. Both as a fan of found footage and a life-long resident of the Inland Empire, I was primed to be the target audience for Strange Harvest,…
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Halloween Horror Nights 2024 Mazes Ranked
Happy Halloween! I have always been a lover of haunted houses and themed attractions, even as a child walking through homemade mazes in the yards of neighbors’ houses. As I grew older, it was be no surprise that I graduated to regularly attending the seasonal haunts at the amusement parks that scatter southern California. Now,…
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Your Monster – Review | Offscreen Central
My new comfort film just dropped! We are in a renaissance of quirky little romantic comedies about girls and their monsters (see also: Lisa Frankenstein). This heart-warming film starring Melissa Barrera is about living life as your authentic self and not letting others take your voice. “Surrounded by people who are so willing to throw…
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DRAINED – Screamfest Review | MovieJawn
Stylish and humorous, yet dark and twisted, Drained will take a bite out of the hearts of those who have had their share of unhealthy coping mechanisms–but it will have you coming back for more.
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What Happened to Dorothy Bell? – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
Found footage and the paranormal goes together like peanut butter and jelly, and Danny Villanueva Jr.’s second feature was perfectly put together with love like the sandwiches your grandma prepared for you
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Daddy’s Head – Fantastic Fest Review
Benjamin Barfoot’s sophomore feature turns grief into a creature that will reach into the back of your skull, forcing you to relive childhood nightmares you thought you had forgotten.
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Preview: 24th Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival
Founded in 2001 by Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin, this festival has a long history of giving a platform to horror, thriller, and sci-fi filmmakers, earning it the nickname “the Sundance of Horror.” Premiering now legendary horror titles like Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity in 2007 and helping contribute to the success of filmmakers like Issa…
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Azrael – Review
“Many years after the rapture Among the survivors Some are driven to renounce Their sin of speech” This is all we know about the world of E.L. Katz’s latest feature. Writer Simon Barrett takes on a chilling challenge, testing his craft as a storyteller when a lean script takes away any chance to rely on…
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Little Bites – Fantastic Fest Review | MovieJawn
Musician-turned-director Spider One’s personal film about the fears of parenthood, Little Bites, just had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest! The film opens on Mindy as a bell beckons her downstairs to a small dark room. Behind this wooden door is a creature who feeds on her one little bite at a time. Despite her…
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Clawfoot – Review | MovieJawn
As a huge fan of M.F.A. (2017), so much so that I included it in my examination of female-directed rape-revenge films for my Master’s thesis, I was excited at the opportunity to check out the newest thriller to star Francesca Eastwood: Clawfoot. Coming from the mind of April Wolfe, who previously wrote Black Christmas (2019),…
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Night of the Harvest – Review | MovieJawn
Happy Halloween, sirens! I’m sure everyone is starting their ’31 Days of Halloween’ watchlists but if you are still searching for more festive horrors to feast your eyes on, check out Night of the Harvest. “The film opens on the night before Halloween with a masked killer lurking in the shadows. With kills that pay…
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Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape – Fantastic Fest Review | Offscreen Central
The allure of Girl Internet Show is not just the belly-aching guttural laughter but the underlying ideas that Kati Kelli expresses through her strange creations. Due to its unconventional nature, it is unsure what the future is for Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
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