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Look, most of you lot want nothing to do with A Serbian Film… I know I didn’t ever want to again… but it got sent my way for review from the fine fiends at Unearthed Films and MVD Entertainment, so here we are… The long and short of A Serbian Film goes as follows: ex-porn star Miloš (Srdjan Todorovic) is livin’ the quite life with his wife (Jelena Gavrilovic) and son… though he does return to “the biz” when low on dough. This opens the door for Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic), a director of questionable motives to enter the scene with his “art film” he wants ol’ Miloš to do his magic in… but this being a film of questionable motives, the film is a sort of snuff film… and that’s the most pleasant aspect of the production…a production that may be the end of Miloš body and soul… Writer/director Srdjan Spasojevic (along with co-writer Aleksandar Radivojevic) go waaaay too far
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Writer/director Stacey Gregg’s Here Before (U.K., 2021) is a Northern Ireland-set feature in which a mother begins to believe that the new neighbors’ young daughter may be the reincarnation of her own deceased daughter. The film is a gripping examination of grief bolstered by a terrific performance from Andrea Riseborough. Laura (Riseborough) is a rather well-adjusted person, considering her daughter died a few years earlier. She still grieves, but has a seemingly happy, loving relationship with her husband Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and their teen son Tadgh (Lewis McAskie). When new neighbors move in next door with a little girl of their own — Niamh Dornan as Megan — who would be right around the age of Laura’s daughter, Laura and Megan hit it off with rides home from school and dinner invitations. Things take a puzzling turn for Laura, though, when Megan insists that she has been in the area before — according to her parents, she hasn’t — and
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Following a harrowing accident, a down-on-his-luck security guard accepts a promising new gig at the local morgue in the terrifying supernatural thriller Morgue. Unfortunately, his luck quickly goes bad when he gets locked in and eerie occurrences (and a not-quite-lifeless body) leave him to wonder: how much otherworldly rage does it take to wake the dead? A huge breakout hit in its home country of Paraguay, the paranormal film is from Hugo Cardozo who is making his writing-directing feature debut with Morgue, reportedly based on real events. Pablo Martínez, María del Mar Fernández, Willi Villalba, Abel Martínez, Dr. Aldo Von Knobloch, Raúl Rotela, and Francisco Ayala star in Morgue, debuting on Digital, Blu-ray™ and DVD May 11, 2021, from Well Go USA Entertainment.
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Some duck hunters shoot down a bat which a dog then eats like a complete mother fucker. Thus begins 1988’s Nosferatu in Venice in the only way it possibly could. Next up we have the arrival of the that most Van Helsing of Van Helsings; Professor Paris mother fucking Catalano… yeah I have no clue either, but he’s played by Christopher Plummer (Starcrash) so bonus… and the way he glides into Venice standing straight as an arrow on a fast moving gondola is some big dick energy for sure (and there’s a mirror image of it utilized later in the film that is jaw-droppingly beautiful). Anyway; Catalano is down Venice way to research the last recorded appearance of that dread vampire Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski, who you can bet we’ll be talking more about soon) in the plague-ridden late 1700’s… and yes, the vampire’s name is Nosferatu… not Count Orlok… not Dracula… mother fucking Nosferatu… which just means vampire. Yes indeed…
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In the future, the galaxy’s greatest form of entertainment is Cosmoball; a form of space soccer involving athletes that can teleport from all ends of the universe and beyond! Enter: Anton, a scruffy teen from Earth who lives in a candy colored (more on that in a bit my cats n’ creeps) slum with his sick mother (who’s illness is the result of Earth’s moon being cracked into pieces after a collision with an alien spacecraft)… a mother who’s medicine the family can not afford… and his ass hates him some Cosmoball, let me tell ya! Well it sucks to be Anton, because it is soon revealed that he can teleport (thanks to some alien interference from a menacing alien scientist Cherno and his equally alien, but beautiful, daughter Valaya (Mariya Lisovaya)… yeah, there’s a lot going on here, all of it involving, and get this… aliens, and aliens that want ot use Anton’s DNA to conquer the universe), so
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After deciphering an ancient text, a priest (Álex Angulo) sets about to avert the birth of the antichrist on Christmas Day of 1995 in Madrid, but there’s just one problem… he must summon the devil to accomplish his goal, and he has no fuckin’ clue on how to pull off that unholy miracle! After blowin’ into town, our pugnacious padre decides to commit as many sins as possible so that when Big D does make the scene, he’ll think him a staunch ally. He also sets about enlisting some assistance in his upcoming infernal summoning by way of local violence prone (and often drug addled) metal head José María (Santiago Segura of Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II & Hellboy films, and Beyond Re-Animator to name but a few), and the man that dynamite duo kidnap; TV Psychic and Occultist Professor Cavan (Armando De Razza). Amazingly enough, these absolutely absurd individuals manage a level of success, and soon they are off
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Welsh shocker The Feast is an unsettling, eerie slice of horror cinema that jangles the nerves and does a beautiful job of slowly unraveling its secrets until its mind-boggling third act sticks the landing. This is instant classic fright fare, and the film will be hard to topple from its current spot as my favorite horror movie of this year. Food server Cadi (Annes Elwy in a superb performance) is filling in for the woman who usually helps Glenda (Nia Roberts), the wife of politician Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones), prepare dinners for guests in the couple’s sumptuous, high-tech country home. Invited to dinner are businessman Euros (Rhodri Mielir) and neighbor Delyth (Caroline Berry), and reluctant to attend are the couple’s oldest son Gweirydd (Sion Alun Davies), who is preparing for a triathlon when not displaying perverse behavior, and Guto (Steffan Cennydd), a drug-addicted would-be musician. The events of The Feast unfold over the course of one evening, from preparation time
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The latest entry into the recent generational familial horror film cycle is the U.K. chiller The Heiress, directed by Chris Bell. It is a supernatural outing that grounds itself well in the real world and that features a solid ensemble cast led by Candis Nergaard as a woman haunted by evil and misunderstood by those closest to her. Claire (Nergaard) has been recently given to seeing things in the house that she shares with her sister Anna (Jayne Wisener) after the death of their grandmother. Things get so bad that their mother (Denise Stephenson) wants her to seek religious counsel and their father (Mark Arden) wants her to go to a psychiatrist. Claire is put away in a psychiatric facility, but whatever it is that is haunting her gets even more malevolent — and far more dangerous — when she is away from her home. Bell, working from a screenplay that he cowrote with Danny Prescott, Kelly Prescott, and Jezz
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The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
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RLJE Films is set to unleash the politically charged Golden Globe nominated horror film La Llorona this March. La Llorona blends together the terror of both myth and reality into a devastating exposé of the genocidal atrocities against the Mayan community in Guatemala. Through a modern retelling of the classic Latin American legend, La Llorona forces a reckoning with not-so-distant crimes that should not have ever have been forgotten. The story centers on indignant retired general Enrique who finally faces trial for the genocidal massacre of thousands of Mayans decades ago. As a horde of angry protestors threatens to invade their opulent home, the women of the house – his haute wife, conflicted daughter, and precocious granddaughter – weigh their responsibility to shield the erratic, senile Enrique against the devastating truths behind being publicly revealed and the increasing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes. Meanwhile, much of the family’s domestic staff flee, leaving only
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Look, most of you lot want nothing to do with A Serbian Film… I know I didn’t ever want to again… but it got sent my way for review from the fine fiends at Unearthed Films and MVD Entertainment, so here we are… The long and short of A Serbian Film goes as follows: ex-porn star Miloš (Srdjan Todorovic) is livin’ the quite life with his wife (Jelena Gavrilovic) and son… though he does return to “the biz” when low on dough. This opens the door for Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic), a director of questionable motives to enter the scene with his “art film” he wants ol’ Miloš to do his magic in… but this being a film of questionable motives, the film is a sort of snuff film… and that’s the most pleasant aspect of the production…a production that may be the end of Miloš body and soul… Writer/director Srdjan Spasojevic (along with co-writer Aleksandar Radivojevic) go waaaay too far
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Writer/director Stacey Gregg’s Here Before (U.K., 2021) is a Northern Ireland-set feature in which a mother begins to believe that the new neighbors’ young daughter may be the reincarnation of her own deceased daughter. The film is a gripping examination of grief bolstered by a terrific performance from Andrea Riseborough. Laura (Riseborough) is a rather well-adjusted person, considering her daughter died a few years earlier. She still grieves, but has a seemingly happy, loving relationship with her husband Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and their teen son Tadgh (Lewis McAskie). When new neighbors move in next door with a little girl of their own — Niamh Dornan as Megan — who would be right around the age of Laura’s daughter, Laura and Megan hit it off with rides home from school and dinner invitations. Things take a puzzling turn for Laura, though, when Megan insists that she has been in the area before — according to her parents, she hasn’t — and
Continue reading →
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Following a harrowing accident, a down-on-his-luck security guard accepts a promising new gig at the local morgue in the terrifying supernatural thriller Morgue. Unfortunately, his luck quickly goes bad when he gets locked in and eerie occurrences (and a not-quite-lifeless body) leave him to wonder: how much otherworldly rage does it take to wake the dead? A huge breakout hit in its home country of Paraguay, the paranormal film is from Hugo Cardozo who is making his writing-directing feature debut with Morgue, reportedly based on real events. Pablo Martínez, María del Mar Fernández, Willi Villalba, Abel Martínez, Dr. Aldo Von Knobloch, Raúl Rotela, and Francisco Ayala star in Morgue, debuting on Digital, Blu-ray™ and DVD May 11, 2021, from Well Go USA Entertainment.
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Some duck hunters shoot down a bat which a dog then eats like a complete mother fucker. Thus begins 1988’s Nosferatu in Venice in the only way it possibly could. Next up we have the arrival of the that most Van Helsing of Van Helsings; Professor Paris mother fucking Catalano… yeah I have no clue either, but he’s played by Christopher Plummer (Starcrash) so bonus… and the way he glides into Venice standing straight as an arrow on a fast moving gondola is some big dick energy for sure (and there’s a mirror image of it utilized later in the film that is jaw-droppingly beautiful). Anyway; Catalano is down Venice way to research the last recorded appearance of that dread vampire Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski, who you can bet we’ll be talking more about soon) in the plague-ridden late 1700’s… and yes, the vampire’s name is Nosferatu… not Count Orlok… not Dracula… mother fucking Nosferatu… which just means vampire. Yes indeed…
Continue reading →
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In the future, the galaxy’s greatest form of entertainment is Cosmoball; a form of space soccer involving athletes that can teleport from all ends of the universe and beyond! Enter: Anton, a scruffy teen from Earth who lives in a candy colored (more on that in a bit my cats n’ creeps) slum with his sick mother (who’s illness is the result of Earth’s moon being cracked into pieces after a collision with an alien spacecraft)… a mother who’s medicine the family can not afford… and his ass hates him some Cosmoball, let me tell ya! Well it sucks to be Anton, because it is soon revealed that he can teleport (thanks to some alien interference from a menacing alien scientist Cherno and his equally alien, but beautiful, daughter Valaya (Mariya Lisovaya)… yeah, there’s a lot going on here, all of it involving, and get this… aliens, and aliens that want ot use Anton’s DNA to conquer the universe), so
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After deciphering an ancient text, a priest (Álex Angulo) sets about to avert the birth of the antichrist on Christmas Day of 1995 in Madrid, but there’s just one problem… he must summon the devil to accomplish his goal, and he has no fuckin’ clue on how to pull off that unholy miracle! After blowin’ into town, our pugnacious padre decides to commit as many sins as possible so that when Big D does make the scene, he’ll think him a staunch ally. He also sets about enlisting some assistance in his upcoming infernal summoning by way of local violence prone (and often drug addled) metal head José María (Santiago Segura of Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II & Hellboy films, and Beyond Re-Animator to name but a few), and the man that dynamite duo kidnap; TV Psychic and Occultist Professor Cavan (Armando De Razza). Amazingly enough, these absolutely absurd individuals manage a level of success, and soon they are off
Continue reading →
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Welsh shocker The Feast is an unsettling, eerie slice of horror cinema that jangles the nerves and does a beautiful job of slowly unraveling its secrets until its mind-boggling third act sticks the landing. This is instant classic fright fare, and the film will be hard to topple from its current spot as my favorite horror movie of this year. Food server Cadi (Annes Elwy in a superb performance) is filling in for the woman who usually helps Glenda (Nia Roberts), the wife of politician Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones), prepare dinners for guests in the couple’s sumptuous, high-tech country home. Invited to dinner are businessman Euros (Rhodri Mielir) and neighbor Delyth (Caroline Berry), and reluctant to attend are the couple’s oldest son Gweirydd (Sion Alun Davies), who is preparing for a triathlon when not displaying perverse behavior, and Guto (Steffan Cennydd), a drug-addicted would-be musician. The events of The Feast unfold over the course of one evening, from preparation time
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The latest entry into the recent generational familial horror film cycle is the U.K. chiller The Heiress, directed by Chris Bell. It is a supernatural outing that grounds itself well in the real world and that features a solid ensemble cast led by Candis Nergaard as a woman haunted by evil and misunderstood by those closest to her. Claire (Nergaard) has been recently given to seeing things in the house that she shares with her sister Anna (Jayne Wisener) after the death of their grandmother. Things get so bad that their mother (Denise Stephenson) wants her to seek religious counsel and their father (Mark Arden) wants her to go to a psychiatrist. Claire is put away in a psychiatric facility, but whatever it is that is haunting her gets even more malevolent — and far more dangerous — when she is away from her home. Bell, working from a screenplay that he cowrote with Danny Prescott, Kelly Prescott, and Jezz
Continue reading →
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The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
RLJE Films is set to unleash the politically charged Golden Globe nominated horror film La Llorona this March. La Llorona blends together the terror of both myth and reality into a devastating exposé of the genocidal atrocities against the Mayan community in Guatemala. Through a modern retelling of the classic Latin American legend, La Llorona forces a reckoning with not-so-distant crimes that should not have ever have been forgotten. The story centers on indignant retired general Enrique who finally faces trial for the genocidal massacre of thousands of Mayans decades ago. As a horde of angry protestors threatens to invade their opulent home, the women of the house – his haute wife, conflicted daughter, and precocious granddaughter – weigh their responsibility to shield the erratic, senile Enrique against the devastating truths behind being publicly revealed and the increasing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes. Meanwhile, much of the family’s domestic staff flee, leaving only
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