Tag: horror
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‘Ghostwatch’ is a Masterwork of the Found-Footage Horror Subgenre
‘Ghostwatch’’s blacklisted quality only heightens the good time
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Talk to the Hand: On ‘Talk to Me’
In ‘Talk to Me,’ the hand that feeds also bites back.
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‘8MM’ is Almost Comically Grim
‘8MM’’s portrayal of the underground-porn world conversely has the texture of one imagined by a well-off 60-something who wouldn’t know much about that kind of thing.
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‘Evil Dead Rise’ is a Relentlessly Good Scare
This bracing new sequel forsakes the original trilogy’s sense of humor for more straightforward frights.
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‘Skinamarink’ Makes You Feel Like a Little Kid Again
‘Skinamarink’ taps into a child’s fear of the dark — and the monsters maybe lurking with it — with chilling clarity.
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ is a Nauseously Funny Black Comedy
New movies from Ruben Östlund and Dario Argento.
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Though a Historical First, ‘Hellbent’ is Only So-So
‘Hellbent’ is often billed as the first gay slasher movie.
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‘The Woman King’ is a Towering, Complicated Action Epic
Plus: ‘Pearl,’ a prequel to the great neo-slasher film ‘X,’ disappoints.
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‘Cabin Fever’ Never Quite Comes Together
The one truly effective thing about ‘Cabin Fever’ is Scott Kevan’s cinematography.
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There Are Scary Movies. Then There’s ‘Threads’
‘Threads’ reinforces the truth that no spectacle-driven horror movie is ever as scary as war.
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‘Pulse’ Makes Us Take a Silly Premise Seriously
It’s a nightmare-as-movie, where not much makes sense but where the environment in which everything takes place is so creepily immersive, feels true enough, that even when things get a hair tedious you still haven’t gotten rid of the pit that has formed in your gut.
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Sex and Death, Locked in a Tango, in ‘Def by Temptation’
In this atmospheric and sensual (but not humorless) horror movie, Bible-style capital-T temptation is embodied by a blood-thirsty, ostensibly eons-old succubus that disguises itself as a distractingly beautiful woman.
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