A new folk horror on the block, Starve Acre is a tale of love, grief, and sacrifice. There’s an aura of strangeness in this one. The plot sees a married couple who experiences the unexpected loss of their son and this causes them to unwillingly invite an entity in their home known as Dandelion Jack. […]
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Family get togethers during the holidays can be stressful especially when people just show up at your door unannounced. The Apology is a Christmas horror regarding the worst kind of visit during the holidays. The story sees a grief stricken mother whose daughter went missing 20 years ago. She is also celebrating 20 years of
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Those darn teenagers, always summoning demons to solve their problems, and it always goes wrong. That is what we see happen in Pyewacket which on the surface is your average horror movie but there is something deeper lurking within. The story is about a mother and daughter who are disconnected due to the loss of
During a radical heatwave in Madrid, Spain, where the temperature reaches triple digits and continues to rise for a series of days, something strange begins happening to the elderly. The film begins when Naia’s grandmother jumps off a balcony without warning, plummeting to her death, but things only seem to get worse as her widow
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I already touched on how horror movies use grief as a framing device to great effect in creating terrifying moments. When I heard about how unsettling Lake Mungo was, I had to see for myself. And yeah this is a very rough one. The plot is about a young girl named Alice who ends up
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Movies based on Stephen King’s works havs performed well lately and add on ideas introduced in the source material. Such is the case with The Boogeyman(2023) based on the story story with the same name that was included in Stephen King’s Night Shift collection which contains his best works he had in his career. The
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I heard a lot of chatter of how good and terrifying Talk to Me was. The directorial debut of Philippou Brothers had a strong box office opening as well. Both things enticed me to see what all the hype was about. I can fairly say that it deserves the accolades and to be talked about.
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This came up as a recommendation for cosmic horror, and Older Gods is exactly that, taking inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft in crafting a weird and otherworldly tale The plot sees a man who travels to the UK to find closure in his friend’s death and instead finds an apocalyptic cult looking to raise an ancient
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A woman driven to her absolute edge by grief and hatred turns to the darkest of measures to find peace. The film opens with single ex-mother Sophia whose buying a house. She observes everything from the material of the floors, to the direction that the bedroom faces. It doesn’t take long to find out that
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