Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A California kid with creative parents grows up to make a living in the entertainment industry. The end. This cliché does and most emphatically does not describe filmmaker Staci Layne Wilson—dad’s a Rock & Roll Hall of […]
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Tom Holland has enjoyed a successful career in Hollywood. As a writer, Mr. Holland wrote one of the most ambitious sequels in film history with Psycho II, starring Anthony Perkins twenty-two years after everyone’s favorite mama’s boy first tore onto the scene. As a director, […]
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It’s billed as an homage to Lucio Fulci, and at times, it feels superior. We Are Still Here, which is Ted Geoghegan’s debut full-length film as a director, touches the Fulci basics: it’s got gore, an isolated house in New England, a troubled family dealing […]
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Richard Cranor’s Star Leaf is a film about many things, including aliens, personal demons, rules, deceit, horror, and lastly—surprisingly—marijuana. For a film that is about three friends trekking through the thick wilderness of the Pacific Northwest to find and toke up on an extraterrestrial strain […]
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It’s pretty much impossible to imagine Italian horror cinema without also thinking of Goblin. Their eerie cinematic soundscapes provided the soundtrack to sudden bloody death and the arrival of demonic evil. I would argue that their soundtrack to Suspiria is not only the best modern […]
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Christopher Lee passed away on June 7, 2015 after hospitalization for respiratory problems and heart failure. The news of his passing was not made world-wide until June 11, only after his wife of 54 years was able to reach all family and friends with the […]
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Der Samurai is the first feature film from German writer/director Till Kleinert. The film stars Michael Diercks as Jacob. Jacob is a police officer in a small non-distinct rural village. He is a quiet, unassuming man who’s inexplicably disrespected by the occupants of the small […]
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Whether it be television, film or literature, mankind’s untimely demise in the form of the apocalypse has been microwaved so many times, it’s long since tasted like rubber. Thankfully, there are authors like Tim Lebbon who can still manage to take an overused theme and […]
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Director Romain Basset’s 2014 film Horsehead takes the viewer on a surreal journey into a young woman’s oneiric labyrinth as she deals with nebulous and frightening memories. After watching it, more questions than answers remain. It’s Basset’s first full-length film and what a film it […]
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Bigfoot builds its indie street cred in Valley of the Sasquatch, a film by director John Portanova that ambitiously breaks all the conventions of monster horror movies, but not always successfully. It’s a bizarre, dark film that strives to bring a human element to the […]
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