In a Violent Nature (2024)Director: Chris NashScreenwriter: Chris NashStarring: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Charlotte Creaghan, Cameron Love, Liam Leone, Alexander Oliver, Reece Presley In the realm of the slasher genre, Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature checks every theoretical box: a masked killer on a revenge rampage, an isolated setting, questioning morality and sexuality, and […]
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The Strangers: Chapter One (2024)Director: Renny HarlinScreenwriters: Alan R. Cohen, Alan FreedlandStarring: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath Somewhere, a few years ago, after the second Strangers film Prey At Night had been safely consigned to the ‘I don’t recall it being awful’ memory banks, someone in the production company boardroom meetings must
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Tarot (2024)Director: Spenser Cohen, Anna HalbergScreenwriters: Spenser Cohen, Anna HalbergStarring: Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Wolfgang Novogratz, Jacob Batalon, Humberly González, Larsen Thompson, Olwen Fouéré Thirteen Ghosts, the 2001 remake of William Castle’s 1960 film, had something going for it: let’s trap people in a big house with lots of inventive evil spirits, with lots
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Immaculate (2024)Director: Michael MohanScreenwriter: Andrew LobelStarring: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Colangeli, Dora Romano, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi Horror films haven’t been great this year, at least not the ones that make it to general release on the big screen. With more on the way in the upcoming weeks and months,
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Talk to Me (2022)Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael PhilippouScreenwriters: Danny Philippou, Bill HinzmanStarring: Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio As the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel RackaRacka, famous for parodies of Harry Potter, Star Wars and even Ronald McDonald, Danny and Michael Philippou are perhaps not
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The Others (2001) Director: Alejandro Amenábar Screenwriter: Alejandro Amenábar Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy The horror genre is always in flux, constantly reinventing itself with each new generation. Whether it’s breathing new life into tired tropes or rewriting the rules of the genre itself, horror
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Director: Drew Goddard Screenwriters: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford The Cabin in the Woods, from long-time friends and writing partners Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, is an unholy hybrid of The Evil Dead and The
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Gretel & Hansel (2020) Director: Oz Perkins Screenwriter: Rob Hayes, Oz Perkins Starring: Sophia Lillis, Sam Leakey, Alice Krige Gretel & Hansel is a modern retelling of the classic folk story of an almost identical name. In case you don’t remember, the original tale follows a brother and sister who are abandoned by their parents.
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The Grudge (2020) Director: Nicolas Pesce Screenwriter: Nicolas Pesce Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Jacki Weaver At a New York Comic Con panel, director Nicolas Pesce described his Grudge film as having a “deeper, human character narrative”. A character driven narrative focuses on the internal conflict characters in the
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Hereditary (2018) Director: Ari Aster Screenwriter: Ari Aster Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd I’m a massive scaredy cat, but I’m a cat that enjoys the fright, so I agreed to go and see the new hot horror film Hereditary with my sisters. I don’t really watch TV anymore these
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