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[Fantasia 2024]: Carnage For Christmas
Having its Montreal premiere at FANTASIA 2024 is Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage For Christmas , a festive slasher whodunnit and a spirited...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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[Sohome Horror Pride 2024: The Piper]
The opening gala film of the SOHOME HORROR PRIDE 2024 film festival, The Piper  is an aurally intense fairytale horror that holds true to...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 19, 20242 min read
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[Review]: Confessions Of A Serial Killer
Released a full year before Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer (1986), Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985) directed and written by Mark...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 18, 20242 min read
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![[Review]: Blackwater Lane](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_3da8dc4253fc4c1bad229f638f87803e~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_3da8dc4253fc4c1bad229f638f87803e~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: Blackwater Lane
Horror/thriller Blackwater Lane directed by Jeff Celentano and written by Elizabeth Fowler is a crime-mystery-by-numbers exploring the...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 7, 20242 min read
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[Review]: The Exorcism
Another day, another Russell Crowe exorcism movie. It’s an oddly specific category of movie, but one that in its initial outing of last...

Sarah M
Jun 24, 20243 min read
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[Review]: New Life
Writer-director John Rosman’s feature New Life is a fresh and emotive spin on a often-times stale horror sub-genre. The film plays out a...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 14, 20242 min read
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[Review]: The Moor
Between the years of 1963 and 1965, a crime of such abhorrence was carried out in the north of England that the entire country was shaken...

Amber T
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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[Review]: Nightwatch:Demons Are Forever
Thirty years since the release of one of the most influential Danish horror films of all time, comes the sequel to Ole Bornedal’s...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
May 30, 20242 min read
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[Review]: Nightwatch (1994)
Celebrating thirty years since its initial release in 1994, the Danish language film Nightwatch (1994), directed by Danish filmmaker Ole...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
May 23, 20242 min read
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[Film Review]: Infested
Directed by Sébastien Vanicek, the French language horror Infested weaves its intricate web, entrapping viewers into its toxifying...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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[Short Film]: Dream Creep
Carlos A.F Lopez’s short horror film Dream Creep explores the surreal question of what would you do if you started hearing voices coming...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Apr 20, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: All You Need Is Death
Very much cemented in the folk culture of Ireland is director Paul Duane’s All You Need Is Death which follows a couple, Anna (Simone...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: The Funeral
From the director of The Antenna (2019), Orçun Behram, comes The Funeral (2024), a bloody road trip movie that takes the tired horror...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 29, 20242 min read
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[Review]: Immaculate (2024)
In the world of religious horror, the Catholic Church is prevalent. Whether it’s the world of possession with The Exorcist (1973) and...

Becci Sayce
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: Mom
Featuring an incredibly poignant and powerful performance from Emily Hampshire, Mom, the feature length debut of director Adam O’Brien,...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 20, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: Kill Your Lover
Directed by duo Alix Austin and Keir Siewert, Kill Your Lover is a triggering body horror depicting the breakdown and final moments of a...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 12, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: Wake Up
Home store invasion horror Wake Up from directorial team ‘Roadkill Superstars’, made up of filmmakers François Dimard and Anouk and...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: You'll Never Find Me
Having screened as the opening film of 2024’s Glasgow FrightFest weekend, You’ll Never Find Me directed by Indianna Bell and Josiah...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow Film Festival]: In Flames
In Flames had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Fortnight Section in 2023, the first Pakistani film...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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[review]: Tropic (2023)
Directed by Edouard Salier, sci-fi drama Tropic explores the detrimental effects of a society that places a precedence over extreme human...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 6, 20242 min read
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