Tag: gore

KILLING FAITH

Part frontier Western, part plague parable, and part supernatural fable, Ned Crowley’s Killing Faith is a haunting ride through the badlands of 1849 Arizona. Guy Pearce delivers a riveting performance as a once-respected physician turned ether-addicted husk, who reluctantly agrees to escort former slave Sara (DeWanda Wise) and her young daughter Faith (Emily Ford) across

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FANTASTIC FEST ’25 REVIEW – DOLLY 

Creepy dolls, buzzing flies, and a broken music box welcome us into the world of DOLLY, setting the stage for one of 2025’s bloodiest and most unsettling horror offerings. Director Rod Blackhurst leans into classic Grindhouse with a gritty aesthetic and explicit gore, at the same time twisting that nostalgia into something disturbingly fresh. Chase

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FANTASTIC FEST ’25 REVIEW – SILENCIO 

A fever dream of blood, sex, and pastel nightmares, Eduardo Casanova’s SILENCIO isa hallucinatory vision where starving immortals wander through centuries, feeding on scraps of human blood while bickering, fucking, and mourning in equal measure. The film opens with a woman placing a nude Polaroid into a museum exhibit, before taking us back to the

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FANTASTIC FEST ’25 REVIEW – APPOFENIACS 

apophenia / a-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə / noun the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things. Opening with a man watching what looks like porn, we slowly realize the video is of his girlfriend having sex with someone else. After he rage takes over and he “accidentally” shoots her, we’re introduced to

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FANTASTIC FEST ’25 REVIEW – MOTHER OF FLIES

It’s no secret that I am a HUGE fan of all things the Adams family does, so I was very much anticipating their latest – and MOTHER OF FLIES did not let me down.  After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Mickey (Zelda Adams) convinces her father (John Adams) to take her deep into the

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LEIGH WHANNELL’S WOLF MAN NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL, 4K UHD, BLU-RAY, AND DVD 

Y’all know I’m a physical media girlie, so when I saw WOLF MAN was coming out on 4K, I was pretty stoked. The better to see all of the incredible practical F/X in the latest film by Leigh Whannell, whose 2020 feature, THE INVISIBLE MAN, is one of my favorite films of all time.  WOLF

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100 Days of Horror 2023: The Last 50

Finally logging the second half of this year’s challenge of watching new-to-me horror every single day for 100 days, leading up October 31st! If you missed following along on Instagram, here are the last 50 films – features, shorts, and for the first time, I included a series! – I’ve watched this year: Day 51:

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100 Days of Horror 2023: The First 50

I took a year off from this last year to do the standard “31 Days of Horror,” but I’m back again with a (let’s face it, kind of insane) challenge of watching a new-to-me horror movie every single day for 100 days, leading up October 31st! To allow myself some grace, I am including both

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RENFIELD DRACULA SUCKS EDITION NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL, BLU-RAY & DVD 

By focusing on Dracula’s long-suffering lapdog, RENFIELD puts an action-packed twist on the iconic bloodsucker’s story. For hundreds of years, Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has attended to his master’s every need – bringing him victims, fighting vampire hunters with the aid of some magical bugs, and keeping his cape free of wrinkles. While attending an abuse

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Maximum Rampage Edition of COCAINE BEAR now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD

You know exactly what you’re getting into with COCAINE BEAR when the first notes of “Jane” by Jefferson Starship start pumping … leading into a scene with a coked-out drug trafficker (Matthew Rhys doing THE MOST) tossing duffel bags of drugs out of a plane, then accidentally killing himself by jumping too high and smashing

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