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Spoiler Free Movie Review: All Fun And Games

From directors Eren Celeboglu and Ari Costa (interview) comes the brutal supernatural horror film All Fun and Games.   All Fun and Games explores the elements of the cruelty inherent in children’s games – Flashlight Tag, Hangman, Hide &...
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Spoiler-Free Reviews: FAILURE! and THE BLUE ROSE (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest)

FAILURE! (2023)   Writer/director Alex Kahuam’s splendidly crafted one-take feature about the highly stressful day of a second-generation plastics factory owner James (Ted Raimi in an excellent performance) trying to come to grips with...
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Movie Review: Black Circle (2018) – Synapse Blu-ray

Every once in a blue moon I see a flick so incredibly difficult to write about that I'm nearly brought to tears... not because it's a difficult task, but rather because someone has the goddamn balls to create a psychotronic mother fucking...
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Spoiler-Free Shorts Reviews: PAREIDOLIA and RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest)

PAREIDOLIA (2023)   Director Aaron Truss’s shock short Pareidolia — a word meaning the phenomenon of our minds attempting to make meaningful images out of patterns or objects when one does not exist, such as seeing a cloud in the shape of a...
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