Horror
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Bring Her Back
Danny and Michael Philippou’s highly anticipated follow-up to their surprise hit “Talk to Me” is a movie that’s perhaps even…
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Dangerous Animals
Sean Byrne’s “Dangerous Animals” is sharp in all the right places. It’s an efficient, clever genre mash-up that works because…
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Fear Street: Prom Queen
Netflix’s “Fear Street” trilogy from 2021 was a fascinating experiment: A trio of horror films, all released within weeks of…
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The Moogai
Throughout the 20th century, Aboriginal families were torn apart by government-sanctioned kidnappings. They forcibly removed children from loving homes to…
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Final Destination Bloodlines
It makes sense that a gore-soaked horror franchise built around the universal fear that our time is running out would…
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A Desert
What’s the nightmarish horror-noir “A Desert” all about? The answers are unfortunately clear enough, despite the built-in ambiguity of this…
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Until Dawn
“Scream” meets “Groundhog Day” in “Until Dawn,” a film full of enough potential to make its lackluster execution all the…
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Ash
If I were told that “Ash” was originally a concept for a music video for artist and musician Flying Lotus…
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The Ugly Stepsister
Inner beauty has no place in “The Ugly Stepsister,” a bloody re-telling of the Cinderella story from Norwegian writer-director Emilie…
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Sinners
Vampire movies often struggle to be inventive. The formulas and mythologies of the subgenre are tried and tested, repeated and…
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