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[Fantastic Fest 2024]: What Happened To Dorothy Bell?
Having had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024, the found footage chiller What Happened To Dorothy Bell? directed by Danny...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 30, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Beezel](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_3b9855893e3042858ea64e3ea0294dc2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_3b9855893e3042858ea64e3ea0294dc2~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Beezel
Home is certainly where the hurt is in director Aaron Fradkin’s supernatural horror film Beezel , where the home in question is...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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[[Fantastic Fest 2024]: V/H/S Beyond
Released in 2012, V/H/S was a fresh take on the horror anthology format. Utilising the subgenre of found footage, it based its set up...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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[Fantastic Fest 2024]: Apartment 7A
In 1968 a screen adaptation of an Ira Levin novel took the cinematic world by storm. Lauded by theatre goers and critics alike, the...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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![[Fantastic Fest 2024]: Respati](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_eeed9bbbf7e04b5e905cd25a853f9319~mv2.webp/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,al_c,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_eeed9bbbf7e04b5e905cd25a853f9319~mv2.webp)
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[Fantastic Fest 2024]: Respati
With offerings such as 2019’s Impetigore, 2017’s Satan’s Slaves and the recently released Dancing Village: Where The Curse Begins (2024),...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 25, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Inherit The Witch](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_580bb94b90c547eeb0d60b5c015fb153~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_580bb94b90c547eeb0d60b5c015fb153~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Inherit The Witch
Directed by Cradeaux Alexander, Inherit The Witch is a dark psychological horror that explores inherited trauma through a supernatural...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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[Review]: The Substance
Hollywood is hell. Especially for women. Even more so for women of a certain age. In a society that views them as disposable and...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 19, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Invoking Yell](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_aa5be2bbb4eb417f9155fe89d779adc1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_aa5be2bbb4eb417f9155fe89d779adc1~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Invoking Yell
The heavy metal subgenre of black metal is one that centres itself on dark and occult-esque themes, but is surrounded by a certain level...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 18, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Wolves Against The World](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_da728ce6aeb54eeca3f80dea8f8396a8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_da728ce6aeb54eeca3f80dea8f8396a8~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Wolves Against The World
From director Quinn Armstrong comes the second instalment in the Fresh Hell trilogy, Wolves Against The World . Exploring far-right hate...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 15, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Subservience](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_4deca203d01b40b4b439c8066f625c11~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_4deca203d01b40b4b439c8066f625c11~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Subservience
Directed by S.K Dale, Subservience is a science-fiction thriller starring Megan Fox as an artificially intelligent fembot who, after...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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[Review]: La Perdicion
Directed by prolific Italian filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo, La Perdici òn is an exploration into the depths of hell and ruin...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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[Book Review]: Millennial Nasties – Analyzing A Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence by Ariel Powers-Schaub
Once the 20th century ended and the world was ushered into the new millennium, a new era of horror was born. Nastier, meaner and grimmer,...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Generation Terror
Having its world premiere at this year’s FrightFest was Generation Terror , a documentary directed by horror doc maestro Sarah Appleton (...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 30, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest]: Members Club
Having had its world premiere at this years FRIGHTFEST, Marc Coleman's Members Club is a wildly ridiculous horror comedy centred around a...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Cold Wallet
The latest directorial effort from Cutter Hodierne is an odd beast – a cold, crisp tech thriller that finds its focus on a trio of...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: A Desert
There are moments when a film can turn, develop unexpectedly from one thing into another. This is the case with A Desert . To go into...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Never Have I Ever
Occasionally a film comes along and morphs in front of your eyes, becoming something unexpected. And this is the case with Damon...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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![[FrightFest]: Things Will Be Different](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_85d5c4a040ef4e83a2b04fa0e9909248~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_85d5c4a040ef4e83a2b04fa0e9909248~mv2.webp)
[FrightFest]: Things Will Be Different
Michael Felker’s Things Will Be Different  is a fascinatingly engaging take-on the time travel movie. Siblings on the run, having...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Test Screening
Movie fans are always seeking it out - the new dizzying cinematic high. Even better if we can get it before everything else. This desire...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: So Unreal
Cinema is capable of crafting beautiful, compelling visions of possible futures. Many of these don’t become our reality but they can...

Russell Bailey
Aug 28, 20242 min read
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