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One of the best things about Takashi Miike’s Ôdishon (Audition, 1999), is that it takes the basic premise of something that does not outwardly feel like a horror film and slowly turns it into one. The set-up feels like that of a ...

You have sex and you die. You smoke weed, you drink, guess what? You’re going to die. That is, by and large, the general takeaway of the Friday the 13th series. Amazingly, it’s a sentiment widely shared by both hardcore ...

Consisting of three short stories from three separate authors, Cut Corners Volume 3 is like a season of Black Mirror that isn’t afraid to go for the throat. I make the connection to that show in particular simply because two ...

Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (L’aldilà, 1981) is a masterpiece. It was not always recognized as such and even now there are certainly those who argue the point, but it is. It’s a gory, Grand Guignol guided tour through Hell. A ...