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‘Where the Devil Roams’ Fantasia Review – Depression-Era Carnival Film Struggles With Its Narrative

July 28, 2023 Joe Lipsett Fantasia 2023, John Adams, Movies, Reviews, sam rodd, the adams family, tobey poser, Zelda Adams

The Adams Family are among the most exciting indie horror filmmakers working today. The prolific family of hands-on filmmakers – father John Adams, mother Tobey Poser, and daughter Zelda Adams – share writing, directing and acting credits on all of their films, including 2021’s Hellbender. Where the Devil Roams is the family’s most ambitious film yet, […]

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‘Booger’ Fantasia Review – Grief-Fueled Drama Features a Unique Kind of Body Horror

July 27, 2023 Joe Lipsett body horror, Booger, Fantasia 2023, Garrick Bernard, Grace Glowicki, Marcia DeBonis, Mary Dauterman, Movies, Reviews, Sofia Dobrushin

Anna (Grace Glowicki) is not okay. In writer/director Mary Dauterman’s feature directorial debut, the mid-twenties New Yorker is grieving the loss of her roommate and best friend, Izzy (Sofia Dobrushin). She’s dodging calls from her co-worker Devon for repeatedly missing work, eating questionable looking Thai take-out that Izzy left in the fridge, and refusing to […]

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Exploiting the Canadian Tax Shelter for ‘Death Weekend’ [Maple Syrup Massacre]

July 25, 2023 Joe Lipsett Brenda Vaccaro, Chuck Shamata, Death Weekend, Don Stroud, Editorials, Exploitation, maple syrup massacre, William Fruet

Maple Syrup Massacre is an editorial series where Joe Lipsett dissects the themes, conventions and contributions of new and classic Canadian horror films. Spoilers follow… William Fruet is one of Canada’s most important directors. He’s renowned for not only his contributions to ‘realist social dramas’ such as 1970’s Goin’ Down The Road (one of Canada’s first English language fiction […]

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The Many Queer Readings of Norman Bates in ‘Psycho’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

July 24, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Martin Balsam, Norman Bates, Podcasts, Psycho, Vera Miles

Baters It’s nearly time to close out the month of July, which has been another scorching hot one for Trace and me. We kicked things off with Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) to coincide with our coverage of The Red Door, then we talked about another sequel to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: […]

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‘Mother, May I?’ Review – Sumptuous Psycho-Sexual Mind Games

July 21, 2023 Joe Lipsett Chris Mulkey, Holland Roden, Kyle Gallner, Laurence Vannicelli, Michael Giannone, Reviews

An older woman’s dead body lies on the floor in the opening scene of writer/director Laurence Vannicelli’s Mother, May I? The camera pulls back slowly, revealing a rustic but lived-in cabin near a lake. This is followed by a brisk montage as the body is collected, cleaned, and finally incinerated before the ash is poured […]

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‘Amityville Exorcism’ Is the One That Shamelessly Rips Off ‘The Exorcist’ [The Amityville IP]

July 18, 2023 Joe Lipsett Amityville Horror, Billy D'Amato, Editorials, Mark Polonia, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” After an “in name only” outing with Amityville Prison (aka Against The Night), there’s something reassuring about Amityville Exorcism, which delivers exactly what the title suggests. This […]

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Dissecting Two Very Different Films With ‘Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

July 17, 2023 Joe Lipsett Adam Robitel, Deborah Ann Woll, Holland Roden, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Indya Moore, Isabelle Fuhrman, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Logan Miller, Podcasts, Taylor Russell, Thomas Cocquerel

Physical Media 4Eva After tackling a contemporary sequel last week with Insidious: Chapter Two, Trace and I figured we should do it again. This week we’re dissecting the sequel to queer director Adam Robitel‘s immensely popular Escape Room, which was released in 2021 as Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. In the film, survivors Zoey (Taylor Russell) and […]

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Blame Pedestrian Sex, Not Madonna, for the Failure of ‘Body of Evidence’ [Sex Crimes]

July 11, 2023 Joe Lipsett anne archer, Brad Mirman, Editorials, erotic thriller, frank langella, Julianne Moore, Madonna, Movies, Sex Crimes, Uli Edel, Willem Dafoe

In the pantheon of Erotic Thrillers, Body of Evidence is an odd one. It falls into the even more niche sub-category of courtroom thrillers, which spend as much time on the naughty bits as they do with witnesses on the stand or in depositions (see also: Disclosure). Enter Body of Evidence. In the film, femme […]

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David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ – An Unconventional Erotic Thriller/Slasher

June 27, 2023 Joe Lipsett Canadian Horror, crash, David Cronenberg, Deborah Kara Unger, Editorials, erotic thriller, Holly Hunter, J.G. Ballard, James Spader, Peter MacNeil, Sex Crimes

On the surface, David Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash is a drama about an unlikely group of people who come together over their shared fascination with car crashes. The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of Ballard’s proxy, James Ballard. He’s a successful film producer […]

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‘Amityville Clownhouse’ Needs More Bozo Action [The Amityville IP]

June 20, 2023 Joe Lipsett Dustin Ferguson, Editorials, Julia Farrell, Mark Patton, Movies, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” It was with a mix of trepidation and intrigue that I hit play on Dustin Ferguson’s Amityville Clownhouse (2020). The film, first released in 2017 under the […]

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Revisiting a Contemporary Classic With ‘Hereditary’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

June 19, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, Ari Aster, Gabriel Byrne, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Milly Shapiro, Podcasts, Toni Collette

Joanie, The Scammer After spending two weeks talking about dinosaurs with Tammy and the T-Rex and then Jurassic Park last week, it seemed like a good time to revisit a very serious, very somber contemporary classic: Ari Aster‘s 2018 family melodrama, Heredtiary, just in time for its 5th anniversary. In the film, grieving diorama creator Annie (Toni […]

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‘Amityville: No Escape’ – This Found Footage Installment Is Only Half Successful [The Amityville IP]

June 6, 2023 Joe Lipsett Alia Gabrielle Eckhardt, Allison Egan, Amityville, Amityville Horror, Editorials, Henrique Couto, Ira Gansler, Josh Miller, Julia Gomez, Katrina Gansler, Michael William Ralston, Movies, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The found footage entries in the Amityville series have been hit and miss. The Amityville Haunting featured a few innovative uses of the format, but the minuscule […]

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The Camp Appeal and Heartfelt Emotion of ‘Tammy and the T-Rex’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

June 5, 2023 Joe Lipsett Denise Richards, Dinosaurs, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Paul Walker, Podcasts, Stewart Raffill, Tammy and the T-Rex, Terry Kiser, Theo Forsett

Puppet Arms We bounced all over the place in May, starting with Fred Dekker’s genre mash-up Night of the Creeps before getting deadly serious with Gus Van Sant’s pseudo-Columbine film Elephant, trippy with Alex Garland’s surreal Annihilation. Now we’re back in ultra campy territory with the silly and heartfelt Tammy and the T-Rex (1994). In writer/director […]

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“Cruel Summer” Season 2 Review – Young Adult Series Returns With an Addictive New Mystery

June 5, 2023 Joe Lipsett Braeden De La Garza, Cruel Summer, freeform, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lexi Underwood, Lisa Yamada, Nile Bullock, Paul Adelstein, Reviews, Sadie Stanley, Sean Blakemore, TV

The first season of Cruel Summer was an unexpected hit for Freeform back in 2021 when it became the No. 1 new cable drama among women. The series had a great hook: the story was divided across three years, each visually distinct, following the same characters as their circumstances changed in relation to a central […]

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When ‘Damage’ Turns to ‘Obsession’: Examining Two Adaptations of the Same Erotic Thriller Novel

May 30, 2023 Joe Lipsett Anil Goutum, Benji Walters, Charlie Murphy, David Hare, Editorials, Gemma Clarke, Indira Varma, Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, louis malle, Marion Bailey, Miranda Richardson, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Movies, Richard Armitage, Rish Shah, Rupert Graves, Sex Crimes

Sexual obsession is well-worn territory for Erotic Thrillers, a subgenre that often features men who think with their libido rather than their brain. When you spend your life thinking about screwing, it tends to screw with your life. This is the central premise of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage, which was transformed in the 1992 […]

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