Out in Theaters: ‘ANOTHER EVIL’
Steve Zissis and Mark Proksch achieve strong comedic effect as bumbling daywalkers haphazardly conjoined to expel evil forces from a family summer home, giving us an infrequently uproarious, mostly…
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Out in Theaters: ‘RAW’
Make no mistake, 'Raw' will prove difficult to swallow for most, what with its unblinking depiction of human-on-human consumption, but those with a stomach of steel will be treated to…
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SXSW ’17 Review: ‘TRAGEDY GIRLS’
Mean Girls meets Scream in Tyler MacIntyre’s trendy satirical midnight horror-comedy Tragedy Girls. Like Heathers for the social media age, MacIntyre’s coming-of-age serial killer misadventure satirizes iPhone-obsessed culture as two popular girls go on a killing spree in order to gain followers, accrue likes and establish a brand. A fucked-up ode to friendship first and foremost,...
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SXSW ’17 Review: ‘GAME OF DEATH’
Upon reading that Game of Death was an amalgam of a web series stitched together into a feature, I feared the worst. The formats, though not incongruous, ostensibly serve different ends – one drives towards a rollercoaster of micro-climaxes, the other tells a rounded whole narrative arc. It’s a case of a dozen acts versus...
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SXSW ’17 Review: ‘PREVENGE’
A case of in utero homicide, Prevenge comes born of triple-threat Alice Lowe’s fertile but twisted mind. Taking duties as writer, director and star in this slop-rock ballad of killer prepartum impulses, Lowe weaves her story of a knocked up avenging angel in the strangest of circumstances. Pregnant at 37, art found itself mimicking reality...
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS’
That ‘The Girl With All the Gifts’ feels like a spiritual sequel to Danny Boyle’s ’28 Days Later’ should be praise enough. Though it lacks in overalls scares, there are…
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Out in Theaters: ‘XX’
Like any anthology, the female-directed horror short collection ‘XX’ embodies the problems native to the anthology format - shallow character development, thinly sketched narrative arcs, with short-term investment wielding sparse…
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Out in Theaters: ‘A CURE FOR WELLNESS’
Gore Verbinski's 'A Cure for Wellness' is a deliciously nasty serving of horror-thriller whose oddities amplify as it stretches on. Long-winded but absorbing, it plays like a symphonic homage to…
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Out in Theaters: ‘SPLIT’
In addition to being a platform for James McAvoy to display his considerable range in truly zany fashion, 'Split' represents the once fallen M. Night Shyamalan solidifying his place as…
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Out in Theaters: ‘OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL’
‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ is an awesome rarity in that it’s an excellent sequel to a truly horrible original film. Mike Flanagan (Hush, Oculus) mixes uncomfortable comedy with legitimate scares…