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Spoiler-Free Review: PET SEMETARY: BLOODLINES (Fantastic Fest)

Director Lindsay Anderson Beer’s Pet Semetary: Bloodlines takes a portion of Stephen King’s novel Pet Semetary and expands it into a feature-length film, resulting in a gory, dread-filled prequel to the book and preceding film adaptations.  ...
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Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: STOP DEAD, MERGER, THE DAM, and RIDE, BABY, RIDE (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Australia’s A Night of Horror International Film Festival has a bounty of fear-fare shorts from around the globe on tap. Here is a look at four of the selections that run less than 10 minutes each.    Stop Dead (United Kingdom, 2023)  ...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: STRANGE DARLING and THE WAIT (Fantastic Fest)

STRANGE DARLING (2023)   Do yourself an immense favor and learn nothing more about the plot of writer/director JT Mollner’s Strange Darling than what I am about to tell you. This film absolutely requires being gone into as cold as possible for...
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Spoiler-Free Film Review: WHAT YOU WISH FOR (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Writer/director Nicholas Tomnay’s What You Wish For caught me off guard several times, and for best results, I recommend going as cold as possible into this horror feature that also serves up social commentary. I certainly won’t spoil any of its...
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