Transgressive French director Gaspar Noe was approached by a small-time production company with a simple request: create a short film with a modestly low budget (roughly $300K) that can be released in time for the Cannes Film Festival. After being told there were no constraints besides the budget and idea, he decided to make a
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Man, does it feel good to have the Predator back again. Prey is a prequel set 300 years ago and it hits all the right marks of what a Predator movie should be like. Then again the director Dan Trachtenberg did create the best entry in the Cloverfield universe so it only makes sense he
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Get ready to witchy with Scarlett O’Hara with their latest release “Witching Hour”. After a haunting start, the song gets heavy and loud with heavy metal sound with a combination of melodic vocals that gets intense during the chorus. Everything flows together to create a in your face bombastic hit. As far as the theme
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Beginning in the mid 90s, the New French Extremity Movement was gaining momentum that the world could not ignore. A number of transgressive French directors were presenting bold, uncompromised visions that reflected the growing and complicated fears and anxieties of the culture. One of the earlier pieces to plant the flag for this movement was
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When it comes to adapting Clive Barker’s works to film, there are those directors who get it right or those who completely miss the mark. The Midnight Meat Train falls in the middle of both. It expands on the original story and presents in the way you expect but then it kind of just falls
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You ever have those moments where you go to an event or concert, and you can just feel the magic in the air? It’s like you know deep inside what you are about to experience is going to be awesome, possibly even life-changing? That is exactly how I felt the moment I walked into the
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There are those dreadful horrors that do exactly as they say on the tin. You Are Not My Mother is an example of that, a folk horror that explores the unreal, featuring something we have not seen portrayed in a very long time. The plot is about an isolated teen names Char whose mother suddenly
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Istanbul, Turkey, is not a typical place one would think of when it comes to horror films. But back in 2015, Director Can Evrenol presented a groundbreaking work that shook the festival scene. He presented an uncompromised look into Hell that most mainstream films were not willing to display at the time. ‘Baskin’ is the
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Did I mention that I absolutely love bands that have a taste for the theatrical? Midnight Nightmare is just another example of that, looking straight out of horror movie with their latest music video for the single “Fear & Apathy”. With beats that bleed absolute evil, the song ushers our descent into darkness. With a
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