Tag: october 2023
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Odds & Ends: October 2023
Halloween movies, 2023 edition.
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The Quiet Power of ‘Priscilla’
Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s ‘Elvis & Me’ is her best work since 2010’s ‘Somewhere.’
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‘Demon Knight’ is a Devilishly Good Time
The first cinematic extension of HBO’s ‘Tales from the Crypt’ is darkly funny and frequently thrilling.
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‘The Case of the Bloody Iris’ is a Solid, If By-the-Numbers, Giallo
Edwige Fenech is, as always, magnetic in a slasher movie you can’t help but wish were directed by frequent collaborator Sergio Martino.
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The Winking Fun of ‘The Last Horror Film’
This comedy-horror movie allows Caroline Munro and Joe Spinell to play with the images with which they’re associated.
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‘Retribution’ is a Sad, Scary Ghost Story
Like so many of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s other horror movies, ‘Retribution’ does more than simply frighten.
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‘The Witch’s Mirror’: Inventive, To-the-Point Gothic Horror from Mexico
This 75-minute movie makes so many narrative pivots that it can feel like several films in one. That isn’t a bad thing.
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Sin and Vice
On ‘The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,’ ‘Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,’ and ‘All the Colors of the Dark,’ an informal trilogy from Sergio Martino starring Edwige Fenech.
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‘I Vampiri’ is Both Nothing Special and Very Special
On Riccardo Freda’s stylish, historically significant horror movie.
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‘Baby Blood’ is Slippery, Gnarly Pregnancy Horror
Carrying a baby to term is already hard enough. What if you had to lug around a parasite forcing you to feed on human blood, too?
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Basic Instinct
‘Fair Play’ and ‘The Royal Hotel,’ reviewed.
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Marki Bey Makes ‘Sugar Hill’ Worth Watching
This voodoo-heavy revenge thriller is so-so, but Bey’s steely performance gives it some charge.
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