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Movie Review: “Mad Heidi” (Screamfest)

Codirectors Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein have unleashed on the world Mad Heidi (Switzerland, 2002), the first Swissploitation film, and it is a bonkers blend of horror, action, and comedy, filled with blood, bare breasts, and cheese of...
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Movie Reviews: “Your Love Is Mine,” Gut Instinct,” and “The Evil Is Inside” (A Night of Horror International Film Festival)

Your Love Is Mine Aficionados of “But is it horror?” films should find plenty to like about the Australian feature Your Love Is Mine, cowritten and codirected by Luke J.S. and Luke Wijayasinha-Gray. Emotionally distant bartender Violet (Senie...
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Game Review: ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’

It's no secret that I was a big fan of A Plague Tale: Innocence with its gripping story, intense puzzles, and of course the large hoard of rats. You can imagine my excitement when I found out that this beautifully twisted coming-of-age story had a...
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Shorts Reviews: “CIMIM” and “Witchy” (Screamfest)

CIMIM Writer/director Cody Mobley’s short shocker CIMIM left me wanting more, more, more in the way of a feature-length version. A group of friends is sitting around talking and drinking during a desert camping trip when one of them (Laura Jenkins)...
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