Wow, that’s a mouthful of a title, huh? Silly as it seems, that title tells you exactly what you’re getting into with this film. Even though its a French feature, it’s a rather approachable coming-of-age film. In her childhood, young vampire Sasha was traumatized when her parents hired a clown for her birthday party, and […]
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I love when we get international films with almost no warning. This is something that seemed to show up on Shudder just as soon as it was brought up in conversation. After watching it and looking into other people’s opinions, I’m so glad I saw it before all the other reviewers ruined the mystery of
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What kind of sick universe are we living in that sees not just one but two spider creep fests within a manner of 30 days. First came Stung, then this creepy crawl fest comes out called Infested. Now, I’ll go on record on saying I love spiders and definitely not scared of them but even
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Christmas is right around the corner, and everybody knows what that means. Some people celebrate the holiday with friends and family, while others spend it by their lonesome for a multitude of reasons. What we have here is the most intense and brutal Christmas film of the last 20 years – and of course, it’s
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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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What we have here is a very early piece of French cinema which can really only be referred to as a ‘fever dream.’ It contains a logically incoherent storyline full of hallucinatory and metaphoric imagery, all set over the sound of classical swing piano. It is a film created by two well renown artists: Luis
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Time destroys everything. This is the underlying theme in Gaspar Noe’s shocking feature ‘Irreversible’. Events unfold in reverse-chronological order that tell the distressing story of a woman being brutally attacked, and the immediate moments that precede & follow it. This film has a reputation for its shocking, no-holds-barred intensity and for its main attack sequence
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Titane” is a film I cannot stop thinking about. It is intense and attacks a subconscious level of its viewer. What may sound as spoilers ahead only cover the first 20 or so minutes of the film, and I promise the descriptions do no justice to what you are forced to watch. Director Julia Ducourneau
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Today’s entry is a hybrid of the foreign and flashback entries. “Diabolique” (french for ‘Devil’), is a simple black-&-white film about a hurting wife and her husband’s mistress, and their plan to get rid of him. If you’ve heard of stories covering this territory before, I believe it’s safe to say this is one of
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