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It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone ...

It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl ...

It’s not everyday that a film — let alone a horror one — inspires a global discussion. At best, there are few films that really get the community excited and talking. Last year we saw this with films like The Babadook and A Girl ...

In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola made a film called The Godfather. In it, a hot-headed studio executive refuses to give a role to a singer, and a mafia family decapitates the studio executive’s horse to persuade him otherwise. Decapitating a ...

In 1989, Brian Yuzna’s Society was barred from a US release but resonated with audiences commercially and critically throughout Europe, so the story goes. Yuzna wasn’t surprised: “Europeans are more willing to accept the ideas in a movie. I was ...

There is a mirror at the foot of Amelia’s (Essie Davis) staircase in The Babadook, a new psychological horror fable from writer-director Jennifer Kent. But it isn’t used to startle us with spontaneous sightings of ghosts or homicidal stalkers, or ...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters today, and its offerings are not unlike those of the summertime arrival of an ice cream truck. Marc Webb’s second installment in his reboot of Marvel’s Spidey franchise is candy color coated from head to ...

Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales flipped a coin. The toss decided who would take their critically acclaimed sophomore feature, Big Bad Wolves, to the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, and who would take it to the Chicago International ...

Well, Brad Pitt got his Jesus movie. Will Smith got his with I Am Legend. Remember, the one where Richard Matheson’s novel was turned into Resident Evil 7 featuring Bob Marley? World War Z is kinda-sorta in the same vein, ...

Of all the shots in Kiss of the Damned, one recurs. An overhead view of a winding staircase, in Djuna’s (Josephine de La Baume) stately half-mansion is seen twice: the first time, we find nothing but empty space at the ...