Tagged: horror

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TIFF 2022: Sick, by David Bax

We’ve had a lot of “Covid movies” already, even though the pandemic is still an ongoing concern and far from being in our rearview. The movies that have attempted to address it head-on have mostly ranged from middling (the anthology...

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The Cast of Cthulhu: Glorious

Jessica Scott returns to discuss yet another Shudder exclusive, the glory hole horror film, Glorious. Glorious begins as a film about a sympathetic man trying to work his way through a difficult breakup but becomes an often comedic and horrifying examination of a...

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Smile: Even Though It’s Breaking, by David Bax

Anyone who spends an above average amount of time thinking about horror movies–or reading and listening to other people’s thoughts on them–is familiar with the idea that horror and comedy work along similar lines, evidenced by the fact that screams...

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Monday Movie: Images, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Images originally ran as a Criterion prediction. The plethora that is Robert Altman’s filmography bears many fruit and Images is among of his best, under-appreciated films. First off,...

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The Cast of Cthulhu: The Ritual

Viewed through the lens of the Lovecraft Mythos that was expanded on after his death, The Ritual is a very well written, acted, and directed neo-Lovecraftian inspired film, its jötunn serving as the Cthulhu of the Scandinavian woods. The Ritual, a 2017...

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Beast: Shallow Pleasures, by David Bax

Taking into account both human and animal safety, relying completely on CGI when it comes to a movie featuring multiple instances of hand to hand combat with a furious lion is obviously the ethical way to go. All of the...

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