When the found footage subgenre was really tipping back and forth between innovative and overplayed after the smash-sucess of ‘The Blair Witch Project’, there were a handful of outliers that really stand strong all these years later. One of the most effective ones was a film that was relatively unseen for decades – Japan’s ‘Noroi: […]
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Exorcism films are an oversaturated sub-genre, and while there are ones who introduced new ideas, it usually ends up having same conclusion. Here’s one known as Prey For The Devil. The story in this one is about a nun who even though she is forbidden is learning the rite of exorcism. She is then flung
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Sins of the mother will be passed onto the daughter. In a nutshell, that is the framing of The Accursed. Where usually we see a young girl possessed this film shows us what happens if a demon possessed someone old. What if that person died? This film explores that. The plot sees a woman who
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There was not one but two different prequels to the Exorcist, Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: The Prequel to The Exorcist. We will be discussing the latter which is a more serious take on discussion of faith. The plot delves into the past of Father Merrin who is haunted by terrible acts he was forced
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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
After the success of Paranormal Activity, it had others trying to replicate the same formula, and The Bell Witch Haunting was one of those that attempted to do that. This is a found footage horror about a family who experiences paranormal visitations from the infamous Bell Witch. Much of the footage we see is from
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How would a movie play out about a haunted swimming pool? For those who are aquaphobic, it would not be a very fun time. Night Swim introduces some different ideas of supernatural threats of the water kind but was pretty meh for the most part. The plot see a family move into a house that
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Here’s a rare one I didn’t know existed coming from the team of Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. The Devil’s Daughter or otherwise known as The Sect. The plot sees a schoolteacher who becomes a target of a satanic sect whose goal is to see the birth of the Devil. The movie is pretty meh
There are a handful of titles every year that you will hear about earlier in the year and have to wait an extended period of time to see for yourself. ‘When Evil Lurks’ was a title that was doing the independent-festival circuit and getting high praise for its creativity and terror earlier this year. The
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