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Spoiler-Free Film Review: “Out of Darkness” 

Director Andrew Cumming’s U.K. feature Out of Darkness  (originally titled The Origin) is a magnificent-looking slice of survival horror set in the Stone Age, complete with a language devised just for the film (with English subtitles provided)....
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Movie Review: Willy’s Wonderland (2021) – Scream Factory 4K

A man, let's just call him The Janitor (Nicholas Cage)... since that's about it as far as names go for this fella, gets stranded in a rural town after a set of misplaced spike bars, owned by the towns rather intense Sheriff (Beth Grant), blows out...
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Spoiler-Free Short-Film Reviews: “Nian,” “Days of Spring,” Mosquito Lady,” and “A Dire Strait” (Final Girls Berlin Film Festival)

Following are reviews of four of the offerings that screened as part of the 2024 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival's Folk Horror short-film block. Nian  Short chiller Nian (U.S., 2023), finds a Chinese American schoolgirl (Lauren Mei in a delightful...
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Game Review: ‘Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden’

What would you do for the one you love? Would you forsake your oath to keep a promise and sacrifice others? This is what players will face in Focus Entertainment and DON'T NOD's action-rpg Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. When I first heard of this...
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