Ok horror fiends, you know the drill. Every few months some crappy horror film is trotted out to theaters in hopes of making some quick cash for the studios via a big opening weekend. This September, the offering placed upon our altar is FRIEND REQUEST. (Caution: There are...
For his entire career, Darren Aronofsky has made viscerally intense films centered on people spiraling into psychological breakdowns. His 1998 debut, Pi serves as a modern homage to David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and revolves around a mathematician losing his marbles over cracking a code. In Requiem for a Dream, he paints a mosaic...
Come on down and see FRIEND REQUEST for free on Wednesday, September 20th in Boston! I can’t say if the film is any good or not, but I can say that this us an excellent time of year for horror films. Here is the info: From the press...
Darren Aronofsky is not here to make friends. His films are not meant to be easy or digestible. But they also do not aim to be crude for the sake of crudeness either. His films show us the darkest sides of humanity and the human experience, but fail...
Few things in life are more terrifying than the process of growing up. Our minds begin to develop deep-seated anxieties as we inevitably realize that the world is not a safe place. Adults who we’ve been taught to look up to are often revealed to be the source...
All I can say is…HOLY FUCK BALLS. Allow me to insert the standard disclaimer that this fall marks the fifth year I’m serving as one of the cohosts of the Telluride Horror Show, and my second as an associate programmer, but good good almighty, no matter what, this...
I am definitely looking forward to this one. Stephen King adaptations can easily be hit or miss. Remakes, or re-imaginings, can lead to the same mixed results. Even with these two colliding cautions, I am looking forward to seeing Andrés Muschietti’s take on the clown classic. If you...
With just under three months to go before the 2017 Telluride Horror Show launches, the event had the kind of problem most programmers would kill for. Three day passes had been snatched at such a high rate, there were less than ten remaining for sale despite not only...
Lucy’s dream of having the prom experience young women have dreamed of their whole lives has gone up in flames. Rather than a magical evening of dancing and laughing with her boyfriend, followed by the two gently making love for the first time, she finds herself holding of...
Want to see ANNABELLE: CREATION for free? Oh boy, have I got a treat for you! Here are details and links to see it for free before it gets released. (And it is actually rated R- a good sign!) BOSTON For your chance to download passes to...
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