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That’s Me in the Corner: 20 Years of the Blair Witch
Twenty years ago The Blair Witch Project was released in cinemas, jumpstarting the “found footage” subgenre and introducing the mainstream to a whole new way of experiencing terror that ...
Spiral [Frightfest 2019 Review]
Spiral, not to be confused with the Adam Green movie of the same name, is being billed by many as the gay version of Get Out. While that’s definitely an interesting comparison, it does a disserv...
Horror Icon Lin Shaye Talks Gothic Harvest [Interview]
Lin Shaye is colloquially known among genre fans as the godmother of horror, but she’s actually been a working actress for decades, starring in the big-name likes of There’s Something Abou...
Witches in the Woods [Frightfest 2019 Review]
It’s a bold move putting the word “witches” in the title of your movie, let alone “woods,” but Witches in the Woods, the thrilling, claustrophobic, and chilly new movie f...
Deadcon [Frightfest 2019 Review]
The Internet is evil, that much is clear, and what clever little indie horror movie Deadcon suggests is that those who make their living being super annoying online deserve to be punished for selling ...
Shane Carruth Talks The Dead Center [Interview]
In writer-director Billy Senese’s new film The Dead Center, writer-director-actor Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) stars as psychiatrist Daniel Forrester, a man of troubled disposition dr...
Daniel Isn’t Real [Frightfest 2019 Review]
Daniel Isn’t Real marks Adam Egypt Mortimer’s follow-up to the badly-received Some Kind of Hate, which infamously received no applause the year it played Frightfest (I was in the audience ...
The Perished [Frightfest 2019 Review]
The Perished is an Irish horror story about abortion so, naturally, it kicks off with some stomach-churning facts about the Magdalene laundries and the infamous Tuam babies — scandals that are u...
Why Don’t You Just Die! [Frightfest 2019 Review]
A quote from celebrated Irish writer Flann O’Brien is the last thing one would expect to precede a violent, gory Russian horror movie and yet that’s exactly how Why Don’t You Just Di...