After Last Season is a horror film that doesn't function like any other horror film because it doesn't function like any other film, period. Our unconscious mind is helpless before this false reality.
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How Saints Are Made: Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s ‘Mother Joan of the Angels’ (1961)
Kawalerowicz contemplates scourged souls and the desolation of a world abandoned by God in his exploration of the possessions at Loudu.n
Full StoryBrewce Longo: The Split Tooth Interview
From Blood Sick Psychosis to Coven of the Black Cube, Longo has quickly established himself as a prolific force in contemporary lo-fi horror.
Full Story‘Woman of the Hour’ and ‘Strange Darling’: Feminine Presumptions as Protection in Contemporary Crime Thrillers
Anna Kendrick's directorial debut and J.T. Mollner's thriller both feature female leads who know how to use horror tropes to their advantage.
Full StorySeeking Oblivion: Jason Banker’s ‘Toad Road’ (2012)
Setting off to find the gates of hell and transcendence through drugs, a young girl disappears and leaves her boyfriend as the only suspect.
Full StoryLong Haul Horrors: Stacy Keach in ‘Roadgames’ (1981)
Stacy Keach (and Jamie Lee Curtis) brings tomorrow’s bacon in this Hitchcock-inspired thriller set in the Australian Outback.
Full StoryConfessions of a Dangerous Mind: Adrian Țofei’s ‘Be My Cat: A Film for Anne’ (2015)
Often referred to as the first Romanian found footage film, 'Be My Cat' throws us into a rabbit hole of self-reflexivity and madness.
Full StoryHaunted Ground: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ (2015)
Advertised as a straight horror film upon release, 'Crimson Peak' is more of a gothic romance of a house, its inhabitants, and its sinister history
Full Story(pod)Casters of Horror: ‘Dance of the Dead’ (Tobe Hooper) Ep. 3
Tobe Hooper has done it again. On the latest (pod)Casters of Horror, Bennett and Jim argue that Dance of the Dead is a late-career triumph.
Full StoryThey Won’t Believe You: ‘Let’s Scare Jessica To Death’ (John D. Hancock, 1971)
Misunderstood upon its release, 'Let's Scare Jessica To Death' is now recognized as one of the finest horror films of the 1970s.
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