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Writer/director Helena Stefansdottir’s Icelandic thriller Natatorium is the type of film where you just know that something is off from the onset, and the mystery as to what exactly is happening keeps you wrapped up until the climactic reveal. The dark family drama at the heart of this feature is thoroughly gripping. With dreams of traveling the world in a performance troupe, 18-year-old Lilja (Ilmur María Arnarsdóttir) stays at the home of her grandmother Áróra (Elin Petersdottir) and grandfather Grimur (Valur Freyr Einarsson) for an audition being held in their town. She has arrived at their home without announcing it in advance to her father Magnús (Arnar Dan Kristjánsson). He calls his sister Vala (Stefanía Berndsen) and asks her to check in on Lilja, and viewers learn right away that the older siblings have problems with Lilja staying there. The titular swimming pool seems to be one of the big reasons for their concerns. Áróra’s other son Kalli (Jónas Alfreð
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Every year, genre-film aficionados can expect a wild, wooly mix of unusual cinematic fare from the Boston Underground Film Festival. This year’s edition features slashers, spiders, and sleepers among its drool-worthy choices. Following is the official press announcement. Spring festival season is nigh as the 24th annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre with five days of eclectic cinemania from March 20th through the 24th. This year’s lineup is stacked with stone-cold killers, covetous cretins, nocturnal nuisances, and all manner of midnight madness. BUFF is beyond honored to host the East Coast Premiere of Michael Mohan’s (2021’s The Voyeurs) convent-set horror Immaculate on Opening Night. Starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus), Immaculate follows a newly minted nun who arrives at an idyllic Italian convent where devilish deeds lurk in the shadows of the sun-drenched countryside. Bookending this year’s electric lineup is genre-bending fever dream Boy Kills World, the gleefully bombastic debut from
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THE FUNERAL (CENAZE; Turkey, 2023) Hearse driver Cemal (Ahmed Rifat Sunger) takes a job of which he is leary from the start: driving away with the body of a murdered young woman named Zeynep (Cansu Türedi) and hiding away with the corpse for a month until her family is ready to claim it. Matters become instantly complicated when Cemal checks into a motel and hears breathing coming from Zeynep’s casket. I don’t want to give away too much more of the plot, so suffice it to say so that in the first act, viewers learn that Zeynep is indeed quite dead — sort of — and that she develops a particular hunger, and that Zeynep’s feelings toward her drive him to do whatever it takes to feed her. Director Orcun Behram delivers a highly unique take on the living dead subgenre that boasts terrific lead performances from Sunger and Türedi. Engin Özkaya’s cinematography splendidly portrays the bleak tone of Behram’s
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Have you ever felt a presence you couldn’t explain or yearned to connect with the spirit world? Thrill-seekers, believers, and even skeptics can now embark on a documented paranormal investigation aboard the notoriously haunted RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Unveil the Secrets of the “Grey Ghost” The Grey Ghost Project offers a unique opportunity to participate in a 3-hour exploration of the ship’s most active paranormal locations, some even hidden from the public eye. Led by Resident Investigator Rebecca Knight, the project employs a skeptical and evidence-based approach, utilizing the latest tools like spirit boxes and the Estes Method (utilizing blindfolds and noise-canceling headphones) to heighten focus and communication with potential spirits. “We aim to share the Queen Mary’s history while seeking evidence of past guests who linger within her walls,” explains Knight. “Many hold cherished memories of sailing this iconic vessel, and their joyful echoes may resonate throughout its halls, contributing to the ship’s reputation as a
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The official trailer for the action-packed horror-thriller Arcadian has arrived ahead of its debut at SXSW. The film, directed by Benjamin Brewer and written by Mike Nilon, stars Nicolas Cage and is edge-of-your-seat. Arcadian is set in the near future when everyday life on Earth has been decimated. Paul and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, have been living a half-life – tranquility by day and torment by night. Every night, after the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a mysterious and violent evil. Thomas doesn’t return home one night before sundown. Fueled by desperation, Paul is forced to leave the safety of their farm in an attempt to find his son before it’s too late. A nightmarish battle ensues, and the family is forced to execute a desperate plan to survive. Cage (Mandy) stars alongside Jaeden Martell (It, Knives Out), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost In Space), and Sadie Soverall (Saltburn). Producers include David Wulf, Braxton Pope, Nicolas Cage,
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Calling all retro arcade shooter enthusiasts! ESDigital Games is unleashing Dinos vs Robots as part of Steam Fest from February 26th to March 4th, 2024. But that’s not all, you will be excited to learn that they are also introducing four other titles from their upcoming lineup as well. A Festival of Demos and Discounts Gamers can dive into playable demos for AWAKEN: Astral Blade and Memory Lost, two upcoming titles that promise immersive storylines and unique gameplay mechanics. Additionally, REMEDIUM: Sentinels, a fast-paced roguelite shooter, is available at a special 25% discount during the festival. Robo50 Takes Center Stage However, the show’s star is Robo50, a brand-new arcade shooter developed by Reset Games. Players can suit up in the mechanized Robo50 body armor and unleash a barrage of firepower to clean up the city streets. Robo50 offers pure, unadulterated action with a retro twist, from demolishing gang hideouts to tracking down the criminal mastermind. Get the game for just
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Sometimes you need something like gloves to bring your outfit together, whether casual, cosplay, on the job, hanging out, serving our country, or riding your steel steed. Leather gloves are the best but there are so many kinds out there to choose from that fit your uniqueness. An unsuspecting ally is here for this need, meet Maroon Bell Outdoor which specializes in leather goods for the outdoors. I want to thank Jeremy, the founder of Maroon Bell Outdoor for sending over some of their Lion Guard Motorcycle gloves and making this review possible! Right away the gloves look awesome with the skeletal patchwork sewn onto the glove, which I really like as it reminds me of my favorite wrestler growing up, La Parka (L.A. Park). The gloves are made with water buffalo leather, which is said to be three times stronger than cow leather meaning they’ll last longer and will over time mold to your hand thanks to the use
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THE ACTIVATED MAN (U.S., 2023) Writer/director Nicholas Gyeney’s feature The Activated Man is an interesting variation on the “shadow people” subgenre. The film goes all-in on its exploration of psychic power and supernatural forces. Leaning perhaps slightly more toward tugging at the heartstrings than delivering full-blown horror, the film does serve up a decidedly frightening new character in The Fedora Man (Edward Michael Scott), whose appearance should inspire cosplay and Halloween costumes aplenty. The Activated Man is loaded with ideas, perhaps almost too many for a single film, including a late reveal that I won’t spoil here. Unemployed Ors (Jamie Costa) is suffering from depression after the loss of his dog Louie to cancer, and his police detective significant other Sarah (Ivana Rojas) is supportive of him, while she herself investigates local cases of murder–suicides, an epidemic of which is sweeping the United States. Ors begins to see ghostly visions of Louie, as well as unwelcome appearances from The Fedora
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After 15 goosebumps-inducing editions in Australia, A Night of Horror makes its debut run in the United States from March 1–3, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Supernatural shockers, bloody slashers, and creepy creature features are just part of the frightening lineup. Following is the official press announcement. A Night of Horror International Film Festival is taking place for the first ever time in the United States next week. Originating and operating for years in Sydney, Australia, the 16th edition of the festival will take place March 1-3, 2024 at the Micon Downtown Cinema, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This year it will be running parallel with Eau Claire’s much loved MidWest WeirdFest, with each festival having its own cinema screen at the Micon. A Night of Horror’s reputation of championing and screening the best and bloodiest new horror films continues, with another stellar line-up of feature films and shorts from around the world. Including several world, international, and US premieres. One
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THE FOREBODING: FRACTURED (U.K., 2024) In director Kemal Yildrim’s short The Foreboding: Fractured, four university friends go camping in the woods, which is never a good idea when it comes to horror movie characters. Neither is telling scary stories by the campfire, but that happens here too. The elements are set for some forest-bound fear fare, and though I will avoid going into spoiler territory, suffice it to say that what the quartet runs afoul of is not a slasher nor a cryptid, but something of the supernatural variety. The ensemble cast — Eve Kathryn Oliver, Alexander Staunton-Hill (who also wrote the screenplay), Olivia Bennett, Peter Tilley, and Sienna Shih — all turn in fine performances playing believable characters, and Yildrim does an admirable job of setting an eerie atmosphere and building suspense. SOUR MILK (U.K., 2024) A homeless shelter offers a terrifying choice for a young woman in writer/director Joe Duncombe’s Sour Milk. Cassie’s (Molly Grainger) first night at
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Writer/director Helena Stefansdottir’s Icelandic thriller Natatorium is the type of film where you just know that something is off from the onset, and the mystery as to what exactly is happening keeps you wrapped up until the climactic reveal. The dark family drama at the heart of this feature is thoroughly gripping. With dreams of traveling the world in a performance troupe, 18-year-old Lilja (Ilmur María Arnarsdóttir) stays at the home of her grandmother Áróra (Elin Petersdottir) and grandfather Grimur (Valur Freyr Einarsson) for an audition being held in their town. She has arrived at their home without announcing it in advance to her father Magnús (Arnar Dan Kristjánsson). He calls his sister Vala (Stefanía Berndsen) and asks her to check in on Lilja, and viewers learn right away that the older siblings have problems with Lilja staying there. The titular swimming pool seems to be one of the big reasons for their concerns. Áróra’s other son Kalli (Jónas Alfreð
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Every year, genre-film aficionados can expect a wild, wooly mix of unusual cinematic fare from the Boston Underground Film Festival. This year’s edition features slashers, spiders, and sleepers among its drool-worthy choices. Following is the official press announcement. Spring festival season is nigh as the 24th annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre with five days of eclectic cinemania from March 20th through the 24th. This year’s lineup is stacked with stone-cold killers, covetous cretins, nocturnal nuisances, and all manner of midnight madness. BUFF is beyond honored to host the East Coast Premiere of Michael Mohan’s (2021’s The Voyeurs) convent-set horror Immaculate on Opening Night. Starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus), Immaculate follows a newly minted nun who arrives at an idyllic Italian convent where devilish deeds lurk in the shadows of the sun-drenched countryside. Bookending this year’s electric lineup is genre-bending fever dream Boy Kills World, the gleefully bombastic debut from
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THE FUNERAL (CENAZE; Turkey, 2023) Hearse driver Cemal (Ahmed Rifat Sunger) takes a job of which he is leary from the start: driving away with the body of a murdered young woman named Zeynep (Cansu Türedi) and hiding away with the corpse for a month until her family is ready to claim it. Matters become instantly complicated when Cemal checks into a motel and hears breathing coming from Zeynep’s casket. I don’t want to give away too much more of the plot, so suffice it to say so that in the first act, viewers learn that Zeynep is indeed quite dead — sort of — and that she develops a particular hunger, and that Zeynep’s feelings toward her drive him to do whatever it takes to feed her. Director Orcun Behram delivers a highly unique take on the living dead subgenre that boasts terrific lead performances from Sunger and Türedi. Engin Özkaya’s cinematography splendidly portrays the bleak tone of Behram’s
Continue reading →
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Have you ever felt a presence you couldn’t explain or yearned to connect with the spirit world? Thrill-seekers, believers, and even skeptics can now embark on a documented paranormal investigation aboard the notoriously haunted RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Unveil the Secrets of the “Grey Ghost” The Grey Ghost Project offers a unique opportunity to participate in a 3-hour exploration of the ship’s most active paranormal locations, some even hidden from the public eye. Led by Resident Investigator Rebecca Knight, the project employs a skeptical and evidence-based approach, utilizing the latest tools like spirit boxes and the Estes Method (utilizing blindfolds and noise-canceling headphones) to heighten focus and communication with potential spirits. “We aim to share the Queen Mary’s history while seeking evidence of past guests who linger within her walls,” explains Knight. “Many hold cherished memories of sailing this iconic vessel, and their joyful echoes may resonate throughout its halls, contributing to the ship’s reputation as a
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The official trailer for the action-packed horror-thriller Arcadian has arrived ahead of its debut at SXSW. The film, directed by Benjamin Brewer and written by Mike Nilon, stars Nicolas Cage and is edge-of-your-seat. Arcadian is set in the near future when everyday life on Earth has been decimated. Paul and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, have been living a half-life – tranquility by day and torment by night. Every night, after the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a mysterious and violent evil. Thomas doesn’t return home one night before sundown. Fueled by desperation, Paul is forced to leave the safety of their farm in an attempt to find his son before it’s too late. A nightmarish battle ensues, and the family is forced to execute a desperate plan to survive. Cage (Mandy) stars alongside Jaeden Martell (It, Knives Out), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost In Space), and Sadie Soverall (Saltburn). Producers include David Wulf, Braxton Pope, Nicolas Cage,
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Calling all retro arcade shooter enthusiasts! ESDigital Games is unleashing Dinos vs Robots as part of Steam Fest from February 26th to March 4th, 2024. But that’s not all, you will be excited to learn that they are also introducing four other titles from their upcoming lineup as well. A Festival of Demos and Discounts Gamers can dive into playable demos for AWAKEN: Astral Blade and Memory Lost, two upcoming titles that promise immersive storylines and unique gameplay mechanics. Additionally, REMEDIUM: Sentinels, a fast-paced roguelite shooter, is available at a special 25% discount during the festival. Robo50 Takes Center Stage However, the show’s star is Robo50, a brand-new arcade shooter developed by Reset Games. Players can suit up in the mechanized Robo50 body armor and unleash a barrage of firepower to clean up the city streets. Robo50 offers pure, unadulterated action with a retro twist, from demolishing gang hideouts to tracking down the criminal mastermind. Get the game for just
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Sometimes you need something like gloves to bring your outfit together, whether casual, cosplay, on the job, hanging out, serving our country, or riding your steel steed. Leather gloves are the best but there are so many kinds out there to choose from that fit your uniqueness. An unsuspecting ally is here for this need, meet Maroon Bell Outdoor which specializes in leather goods for the outdoors. I want to thank Jeremy, the founder of Maroon Bell Outdoor for sending over some of their Lion Guard Motorcycle gloves and making this review possible! Right away the gloves look awesome with the skeletal patchwork sewn onto the glove, which I really like as it reminds me of my favorite wrestler growing up, La Parka (L.A. Park). The gloves are made with water buffalo leather, which is said to be three times stronger than cow leather meaning they’ll last longer and will over time mold to your hand thanks to the use
Continue reading →
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THE ACTIVATED MAN (U.S., 2023) Writer/director Nicholas Gyeney’s feature The Activated Man is an interesting variation on the “shadow people” subgenre. The film goes all-in on its exploration of psychic power and supernatural forces. Leaning perhaps slightly more toward tugging at the heartstrings than delivering full-blown horror, the film does serve up a decidedly frightening new character in The Fedora Man (Edward Michael Scott), whose appearance should inspire cosplay and Halloween costumes aplenty. The Activated Man is loaded with ideas, perhaps almost too many for a single film, including a late reveal that I won’t spoil here. Unemployed Ors (Jamie Costa) is suffering from depression after the loss of his dog Louie to cancer, and his police detective significant other Sarah (Ivana Rojas) is supportive of him, while she herself investigates local cases of murder–suicides, an epidemic of which is sweeping the United States. Ors begins to see ghostly visions of Louie, as well as unwelcome appearances from The Fedora
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After 15 goosebumps-inducing editions in Australia, A Night of Horror makes its debut run in the United States from March 1–3, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Supernatural shockers, bloody slashers, and creepy creature features are just part of the frightening lineup. Following is the official press announcement. A Night of Horror International Film Festival is taking place for the first ever time in the United States next week. Originating and operating for years in Sydney, Australia, the 16th edition of the festival will take place March 1-3, 2024 at the Micon Downtown Cinema, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This year it will be running parallel with Eau Claire’s much loved MidWest WeirdFest, with each festival having its own cinema screen at the Micon. A Night of Horror’s reputation of championing and screening the best and bloodiest new horror films continues, with another stellar line-up of feature films and shorts from around the world. Including several world, international, and US premieres. One
Continue reading →
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THE FOREBODING: FRACTURED (U.K., 2024) In director Kemal Yildrim’s short The Foreboding: Fractured, four university friends go camping in the woods, which is never a good idea when it comes to horror movie characters. Neither is telling scary stories by the campfire, but that happens here too. The elements are set for some forest-bound fear fare, and though I will avoid going into spoiler territory, suffice it to say that what the quartet runs afoul of is not a slasher nor a cryptid, but something of the supernatural variety. The ensemble cast — Eve Kathryn Oliver, Alexander Staunton-Hill (who also wrote the screenplay), Olivia Bennett, Peter Tilley, and Sienna Shih — all turn in fine performances playing believable characters, and Yildrim does an admirable job of setting an eerie atmosphere and building suspense. SOUR MILK (U.K., 2024) A homeless shelter offers a terrifying choice for a young woman in writer/director Joe Duncombe’s Sour Milk. Cassie’s (Molly Grainger) first night at
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