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Spoiler-Free Review: THE SEVERED SUN (Fantastic Fest)

Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (U.K., 2024) is an engrossing work that takes folk horror elements and sets them in an ambiguous time period — the story could be taking place in the past but a couple of items suggest that it could...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? and FACES (Fantastic Fest)

What Happened to Dorothy Bell? An interesting investigation of familial trauma and mental illness through a horror lens, What Happened to Dorothy Bell? uses a combination of vintage-style footage (not found footage, to clarify, although the...
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Screamfest Announces a Lineup Worth Shrieking About

Los Angeles’s Screamfest has announced its second wave lineup, so its full slate of chillers and thrillers for its October 8–17 run is now available for fright-fare fanatics to drool over. Following is the official press announcement. Screamfest®...
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Nightmares Film Festival Announces Its Full 2024 Lineup

Nightmares Film Festival has unveiled its complete lineup for its 2024 edition! The fest, running in Columbus, Ohio from October 17–20, is chock full of tantalizing horror cinema selections and incredible events. Following is the official press...
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