Tag: Horror
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Backrooms is all dread. No destination.
Kane Parsons can build a room. He just can’t build a movie. Yet. Backrooms is a first person, existential dread fest for thos raised on internet.
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THRASH a cliche-filled joke
THRASH, basically, has every lazy convenience, stereotype and cliche an amateur would think is clever enough to write.
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Beetz is a bad ass but THEY WILL KILL YOU misses the mark
On the surface, it seems like a creative, campy project. As you get more and more immersed, however, it becomes less and less imaginative.
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The Moment Lets Charli XCX Laugh at the Machine
Two things can be true at the same time. There’s no better way to describe pop sensation Charli XCX. She’s authentically underground and a commercially successful icon. That coexistence is on full display in her mockumentary The Moment from A24. The heavily meta movie follows Charli as she plays a heightened version of herself. She’s…
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Luc Besson’s DRACULA a great addition to vampire genre
SPOILER-FREE PLOT SUMMARYPrince Vladimir of Wallachia (played by Caleb Landry Jones) heads out to lead his people to victory in the war against the Ottomans. After the battle, he’s told by a servant that the caravan of his beloved wife, Elisabeta (Zoë Bleu), was attacked and she fled on horseback. He sets out to find…
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Don’t sleep on WE BURY THE DEAD
SPOILER-FREE PLOT SUMMARYWhile on a business trip, the husband of physiotherapist Ava Newman (played by Daisy Ridley) is among those lost by an accidental toxic explosion in the Indian Ocean. When she can’t get a hold of him, Ava enlists as a clean up crew worker in at attempt to find him. She flies to…
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Fiennes rescues BONE TEMPLE
SPOILER-FREE PLOT SUMMARYPicking up right where the 2025’s 28 YEARS LATER left off, the Jimmy’s have captured Spike (played by Alfie Williams) and he’s forced into a battle to the death with a member of the gang. Fearful, but realizing there’s no way out, he manages to cut his opponent’s femoral artery and he bleeds…
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Alfie Williams shines in 28 YEARS LATER
If you want to know why some people discount the horror movie genre, 28 YEARS LATER is exhibit A.
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THE SURFER prompts more questions than answers
An American business man (played by Nicolas Cage) takes his son to an Australian beach he grew up surfing at before his grandfather passed away and sold his beachfront home. After decades of sacrifice, he’s finally saved up enough money to buy that same house so he can enjoy the sunrise, sunset and surf spot…
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Coogler, cast deliver in SINNERS
Set in the 1920’s South, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) escaped the slave trade and made a name for themselves during Al Capone’s reign in Chicago. They’ve taken what they’ve learned — and earned — and come back home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, in order to buy a building and…
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