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Before The Substance, Coralie Fargeat got Revenge.
Coralie Fargeat has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention and accolades for The Substance, so I want to talk about her previous movie instead: Revenge. Around 2018, my then-coworker recommended I check out this super-bloody movie on streaming. I didn’t know anything about the director at the time, but I’m generally a fan of revenge movies. The title had…
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Heart Eyes: Good Rom-Com, Better Horror
Finally, after weeks of being promised horror by various marketing campaigns, Heart Eyes delivers. This delightful slasher/rom-com combo delivers on all fronts, hitting the highlights for both genres. Horror-comedy is a usually tough genre for me, but Josh Ruben made Werewolves Within, so I was pretty confident going in. Spoiler Free Review My main issue with horror-comedy usually comes down…
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My Bloody Valentine 3-D: Gore With a Heart
Yes, I’m actually going to cover My Bloody Valentine 3-D and the original in back-to-back weeks. And honestly, I’m doing it for no other reason than it’s one of my favorite horror franchises, and it’s Valentine’s season. My Blood Valentine 3-D follows much the same general ideas as the original. After a cave-in, miner Harry Warden snaps…
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Companion: Stylish Satire on Toxic Relationships
This year we have been blessed by two Valentine’s themed, horror-adjacent movies. Companion is arguably much less horror than February 7th’s Heart Eyes. This sci-fi thriller still has a high creep factor, a respectable death toll. It also and asks some unsettling questions about the transactional nature of relationships. In short: I loved it. About Horror I’m not…
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My Bloody Valentine: Happy Valentine’s Horror
Happy Valentine’s Season! I’m taking a break from the chronological review of slashers to focus on more seasonal fare, starting with My Bloody Valentine. For this review I’m watching the unrated, almost-director’s-cut of My Bloody Valentine from Scream Factory. To get this out of the way, this is not an unbiased review, although I will try my best. My…
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Presence: Good Movie Bad Horror
How you feel about Presence may largely depend on how many trailers or ads you’ve seen for the movie. They are effective haunted house trailers that claim that Presence is one of the “scariest movies of the year”, and that it “leaves your heart on the floor”. Wildly out of context audio plays over clips…
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And Then There Were None: Slasher Adjacent
Just to be clear, And Then There Were None is not a slasher movie, at least not in this interpretation of the story. It is a well-known murder mystery that uses elements that later become tropes in slashers and other horror movies. The aspects of the story that are most interesting to me in the…
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Wolf Man: Where wolf?
Writer and director of Wolf Man, Leigh Whannell, has proven himself to be one of the most reliable creators in horror. Saw and Insidious are clever and scary. He also wrote Dead Silence, which is an underrated gem. After 2020’s The Invisible Man, I understand why anyone would trust him to update a classic Universal…
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Incantation: Horror Found at Home
Today, we are looking at Incantation, Taiwan’s highest grossing horror movie. I’ve always had an interest in international horror. I touched on my whole “movie snob” era here, but at least I got to watch a lot of good movies out of those insufferable years. Japanese films were a gateway into a broader world of…
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Exhume: Real Life Inspiration Gone Wrong
Amazon recommended 2017’s Exhume to me based on other movies I’ve watched, which now has me seriously reconsidering my viewing habits. Advertised as based on a true story, Exhume uses the atrocities committed at a Florida school for boys as the backdrop for its haunted tale. Sadly, Exhume fails to handle this delicate subject, or…