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Hell of a Summer/Locked
Locked is an English language remake of the 2019 Argentinean film 4×4, and although it came and went on local screens without…
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
Who rules? That’s often the question in life, isn’t it? Whether it’s concerning a job, a religion or a government, the important…
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The Monkey
I’m a fan of writer/director Osgood Perkins. I think he’s one of the best filmmakers in the horror genre today, a distinctive…
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Companion
Appropriately enough for a columnist writing for trailersfromhell.com, I’ve always loved movie trailers. I enjoyed the bombast of the classic ones (THE…
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Wolf Man
I am a fan of writer/director Leigh Whannell. It gets somewhat lost now under the weight of the attenuated franchise, but Whannell’s…
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The Ten Best Horror Films of 2024
The Ten Best Horror Films of 2024 2024 has been many things, pro and con, but one of those things was a…
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Black Christmas
There are plenty of winter-set horror films, and that’s for good reason: if you’re looking to put a chill in the audience,…
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Thanksgiving
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving began as one of the parody trailers in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 film, Grindhouse. Epitomizing the “grindhouse”…
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Heretic
Regarding Hugh Grant’s first horror film in thirty-six years (following Ken Russell’s groovily psychedelic The Lair of the White Worm), perhaps Gilbert…
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Hidden Gems #2 – House of a Thousand Corpses
Late October, when the weather portends the oncoming chill of winter, the night rises earlier and the day grows shorter, when the…
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Lesser-Known Halloween Horror Film Suggestions
Crawl – One of the best killer gator movies ever made, except in this 2019 story there’s not just one maneater but…
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Azrael review/Q&A event coverage
There’s been somewhat of a vogue for dialogue-free genre films in the past decade, including titles such as John Woo’s Silent Night,…
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The Substance
The Substance There’s a certain kind of film fan that reacts positively when they hear that an upcoming movie is “outrageous” or…
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Oddity, Strange Darling and Blink Twice
ODDITY – Writer/director Damian McCarthy’s film is a more straightforward entertainment than his previous movie, Caveat, but they both share his own…
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Triangle
Writer/director Christopher Smith’s 2009 film Triangle hurts my head with the complexity of its plot, but I love it anyway. I’ve seen…
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The Vourdalak
Almost sixty years before the publication of Dracula, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (second cousin to Leo Tolstoy) wrote a novella entitled The Family…
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The Man Downstairs
Osgood Perkins’ fourth directorial effort, Longlegs, debuted to critical acclaim and box office success, due in part to an incredibly creative and…