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4/5
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Infirmary
(2026)
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Pineda spins what could be a run-of-the-mill found footage horror film into something darker and more unsettling on a much larger scale than just another creepy old hospital.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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4.5/5
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Night Patrol
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Night Patrol plays with the gothic figure of the vampire alongside American history to confront how little the country has progressed over the past 160 years, and to deal with the rage of communities tired of living under the thumb of white supremacy.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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4/5
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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We Bury the Dead doesn’t reinvent the zombie subgenre wheel, but remains a very emotional zombie story that’s more about confronting loss and grief than survival.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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4.5/5
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Sirāt
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Sirāt is at once very real, very literal, then at the same time deeply metaphorical and poetic—a psychological journey of torment across both a physical and mental desert.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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4.5/5
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Sound of Falling feels spiritually connected to Time of Moulting and The White Ribbon, all three reaching for similar perspectives on how the national traumas throughout German history play out in the personal traumas of German families and communities.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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4/5
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Meat Kills
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Meat Kills is over the top in its depiction of militant vegans, yet reflects a deeper societal rift related to how cultural discourse has divided into extremes on all sides of politics.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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3/5
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Something of a Monster
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Something of a Monster deals with two women who are so depressed by loss, whether figurative or literal, to the point they’re driven to psychological extremes.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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3.5/5
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No More Time
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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No More Time envisions a pandemic in which human behaviour is the ultimate form of destruction.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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4/5
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Influencers
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Influencers is even more dark fun than Influencer, particularly because of how it portrays identity in an increasingly volatile and devious digital world.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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5/5
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Die My Love
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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One of the points Ramsay’s film seems to make is that love cannot be in name only, it’s something that requires a bit of elbow grease to maintain, and if it’s allowed to curdle like sour milk, it’ll make everybody sick.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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4/5
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Dust Bunny
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Dust Bunny is a hopeful piece of fantasy horror that urges us to find the people who care for us, no matter where we find them; love is the only way to fend off the monsters under our beds and in our heads.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3/5
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Pig Hill
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Pig Hill deals with cultures that turn trauma into commercialised folklore, and the horrifying real-life results that can occur when victims have their stories disregarded.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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4/5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Leonberg’s film is at its core about the absolute loyalty of dogs for the human beings who care for them, and offers the horror movie epitome of the lengths dogs will go to protect the humans they love.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4/5
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Invader
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Invader‘s a disturbing snapshot of violence that contains commentary deeply relevant to where America is politically right now.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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Bone Lake
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Bone Lake doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it does deal seriously with relationship issues through a mix of horror, sex, and psychological head games.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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3/5
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Dream Eater
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Dream Eater is a story about how burying trauma warps a person’s world, and the world of those around them, into an unrecognisably dark, disturbing existence that can swallow someone whole.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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3.5/5
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So Fades the Light
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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So Fades the Light deals with how cults and cult leaders force unattainable male expectations onto girls and women.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Ugly Stepsister
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Blichfeldt tells a folktale in a brutally real fashion to illustrate the physical toll that beauty standards have on female bodies.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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Deathstalker
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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2025’s Deathstalker is a fun, delightfully foolish, and heart-filled tale best watched in a packed theatre full of movie lovers.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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3.5/5
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Ganymede
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Ganymede is filled with grim, unsettling moments, yet finishes in a space that allows for hope, allows for change, and allows for life in the face of literal and existential death.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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4.5/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Friendship is a dark comedy about some men’s inability to grow and change, as well as the depths of male insecurity.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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4.5/5
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Queer
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of Queer captures, with both beauty and much melancholy, the haunted death-in-life of queerness that Burroughs knew himself.
Posted Nov 02, 2025
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5/5
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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One of the best depictions of how the Gothic treats sexuality, encompassing issues women faced in the 19th century related to desire, and the queerness of vampires that has existed since the first literary vampires reared their fanged mouths in the West.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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4/5
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Mother's Baby
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Mother’s Baby goes against the idea that motherhood is meant to be a perfect, beautiful experience; sometimes motherhood is dark and full of terrors.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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4.5/5
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It Needs Eyes
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Ogle and Pagniano force the audience to question the trauma online images inflict upon us, as well as how our voyeurism shapes and warps the digital world.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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4/5
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Abigail Before Beatrice
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Abigail Before Beatrice is a powerful portrayal of how nothing good or beautiful will ever come from a person having their identity and autonomy taken from them. The results will never be anything but ugly.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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2.5/5
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Tinsman Road
(2025)
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A bit too long, and meanders too much for the suspense to hold up through the runtime; however, Tinsman Road remains an often chilling, always claustrophobic rumination on the dark void left behind when a loved one is ripped from those who love them.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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4/5
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Stephen King's It
(1990)
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C.H. Newell
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The writing in Part I sets up the best terror you can imagine, and though it’s squandered a bit in the second part Wallace does keep you hooked with a thick atmosphere along with good actors doing their best.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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4.5/5
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V/H/S Halloween
(2025)
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V/H/S/Halloween does what some of the best entries in the franchise have done: it captures cultural moments and their potential horrors.
Posted Oct 05, 2025
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4/5
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The Vile
(2025)
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The Vile is a terrifying story about the domestic and the national that plays out under a single haunted roof.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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3.5/5
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Coyotes
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Coyotes is a lot of fun, no matter how you choose to watch it, either sitting back to enjoy a horror-thriller in the vein of a summer blockbuster, or analysing the film deeper to read it as a story with critical social ideas.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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4/5
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CAMP
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Fast’s film is a surreal exploration of grief’s all-consuming horror, though it also suggests that, eventually, grief can be overcome, even if the process is complicated, confusing, and messy.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Restoration at Grayson Manor
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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The film looks long at how the heteronormative concept of legacy breeds resentment, and even drives some to madness.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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4.5/5
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Crushed
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Rumley depicts a crisis of morality in a corrupted world that moves, as well as pushes people, further and further away from the spiritual.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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Dolly
(2025)
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Rod Blackhurst’s film is an appropriately ugly, dark look at the results of physical and emotional trauma, as well as how cycles of traumatic violence can go on repeating like a macabre echo.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Wailing
(2024)
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The story, while enough on the surface, can be taken as a metaphor of battling against mental illness while those around you are incapable of seeing the things you see.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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4/5
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Foreigner
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Foreigner is a smart exploration of the pressures many immigrants, specifically those who aren't white, face when coming to Canada, amplified to horrific proportions.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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3/5
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A Grand Mockery
(2024)
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A Grand Mockery is at times comical, yet never not bleak—a manifesto of loneliness, screaming out into the world’s darkness to no response.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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3/5
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Sugar Rot
(2024)
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Kozak confronts the commodification and consumption of women and their bodies through Candy’s grotesque bodily journey that lies somewhere between vomit inducing and finger licking good.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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4/5
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Hellcat
(2025)
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Bodell rarely lets up to give the viewer time to breathe; however, when the time comes to draw one in, Hellcat is a fresh breath of horror air.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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4.5/5
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Mother of Flies is one of the most profound films in any genre of the past decade about death, as it refuses to let death rest solely in the realm of the ugly and the feared.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dangerous Animals
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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It’s fun to see a serial killer-killer shark mashup ... not to mention the way Nick Lepard’s screenplay turns the man-shark dynamic into a larger theme about trauma and those who repeat their trauma unto others.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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4/5
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Fréwaka
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Frewaka is a chilling reminder that the past clings to body and soul; there’s no outrunning an extra organ.
Posted Jul 10, 2025
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3/5
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Eye for an Eye
(2025)
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Eye for an Eye deals with the haunting ramifications of hatred, and the transformative potential in admitting one’s guilt.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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2.5/5
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Cannibal Mukbang
(2023)
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C.H. Newell
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The brutal, tragic ending of Cannibal Mukbang makes the bold statement that certain things, like truly unconditional morality, are more important than love.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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3/5
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Self-Help
(2025)
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C.H. Newell
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Self-Help is a fierce attack on leaders, cult or otherwise, who prey on the vulnerable by pushing the fallacy that they’re the only ones who can help people actualise their truest, best self.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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4/5
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A Desert
(2024)
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A Desert is an eerie examination of America’s decay, in the landscape and the population, as a photographer seeking the truth accidentally comes upon a horrific truth that will do anything to prevent being revealed.
Posted Jun 26, 2025
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4/5
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Pins and Needles
(2024)
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C.H. Newell
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Pins & Needles is a tense, suspenseful horror-thriller that’s carried well by the powerful performance of Chelsea Clark. The film is likewise a smart, bloody take on the state of healthcare and class identity.
Posted Jun 26, 2025
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4.5/5
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Mission: Impossible
(1996)
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C.H. Newell
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It has everything from intensity to a drop of humour, and don’t forget there’s an expertly cultivated atmosphere at the hands of De Palma which would never have made it to the screen had this film been helmed by anyone else.
Posted May 05, 2025
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4/5
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Prison in the Andes
(2023)
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Prison in the Andes is at times incredibly satirical and, at every corner, darkly serious, too. It’s the story of power hungry men unwilling to let go of not just their lavish, greedy lifestyles, but also of their grip on the nation.
Posted Apr 23, 2025
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