horror film

Film Review: “Soft & Quiet” — White Tyranny

December 28, 2022
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Watching the action unfold may well make audience members extremely uncomfortable, even leave some traumatized. That may well be the point.

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Film Review: “We Summon the Darkness” — The Evil Eighties

April 17, 2020
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A fun and original slasher/romp that lovingly embraces a number of ’80s horror tropes.

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Film Review: “Climax” — Mental Blitzkrieg, Cinematic Version

March 9, 2019
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Climax may be the director’s most fully realized attempt so far to suggest a state of madness onscreen.

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Film Review: “Midnighters” — A Long Night Indeed

March 16, 2018
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Mostly, indie horror seems constrained, not by lack of funds, but by lackluster creativity and a sort of sloppy artlessness.

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Arts Remembrance: William Peter Blatty — Cultivating the Horror Cinema Landscape

January 16, 2017
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William Peter Blatty may have created a comparatively small body of work, but he played a major role in the evolution of American horror.

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Film Review: “Southbound” — Going Nowhere

February 12, 2016
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It’s Twilight Zone eerie, as we embark on an anthology film of connected horror stories all happening on the Lost Highway.

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