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FANTASTIC FEST ’26 REVIEW – POSTHUMOUS

“You need to let your guard down and trust me. Will you let me in?” After a drunk-driving accident, Zoe (Sophie Lowe) ends up back at her childhood home with her emotionally distant father, Neil (David Roberts). Yearning for comfort, she unearths a box of videotaped messages from her long-departed mother celebrating every one of

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FANTASTIC FEST ’26 REVIEW – GODMOTHER

“You have no idea what I’d do to take that ride again.”  Theo (Paige Evans) and Colby (Cameron Cuffe) are on the way to enjoy a couples weekend in the desert at a picturesque Air BnB … along with Theo’s free-spirited sister Katie (Riley Dandy), invited along at the last minute after a bad breakup. 

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THE SERPENT’S SKIN

In The Serpent’s Skin, we follow Anna (Alexandra McVicker) who leaves her small, transphobic hometown to start a new life in the city with her sister. When Anna is able to repel a would-be attacker with witchy abilities, her powers reach out across the veil to Gen (Avalon Fast – the writer/director of Camp, one

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DEVIL’S WORKSHOP

In DEVIL’S WORKSHOP (2022), Directed by Chris von Hoffmann, struggling actor Clayton (Timothy Granaderos; that I just saw in WHO INVITED THEM) can’t deal with the fact that his acting class rival, Donald (Emile Hirsch) gets every part he auditions for even though he’s a terrible actor. When they both get callbacks for a coveted

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Pet Sematary (2019)

It’s always tough for Directors to take on a remake, especially when the original has established itself as a campy classic within the giant catalog of available Stephen King adaptations. But while I’m sympathetic to the challenges Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer faced, I feel like their version of Pet Sematary just did NOT work. {some spoilers

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The Nun

Whelp, the folks that dreamed up The Conjuring universe have FINALLY made a movie that I like. Actually, not just liked: LOVED. The Nun is dripping with Gothic Horror goodness, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and watching it feels *almost* like you’re watching a classic Hammer Horror flick. The action takes place inside a giant, mysterious castle in fog-covered

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Phantasm: Ravager – Reggie the ice cream man does not mess around

{Cross-posted to Three Imaginary Girls} “I could really go for a Rocket Pop right now” So begins the saga of Reggie in Phantasm: Ravager, the fifth — and apparently final — installment of the Phantasm universe. The pony-tailed ice cream truck driver has been on a journey to defeat The Tall Man and save his friends from

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Deadly Blessing

This 1981 entry into the Craven canon unfortunately suffers from extreme BOREDOM.  Deadly Blessing is about Martha (Maren Jenson, who played Athena in the 70s Battlestar Galactica) a woman whose husband is an ex-Hittite, and who is being stalked by a mysterious figure in black who likes to murder people in various ways. It doesn’t

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Lovely Molly

{Cross-posted to Three Imaginary Girls}  Opening with a “found footage” sequence (expected by Director Eduardo Sanchez, one-half of the writing and directing team that brought us The Blair Witch Project) packed with intense emotion, Lovely Molly then backtracks to start at the beginning. Scraping together money to start their new life together, young married couple Molly and Tim

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