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‘The Life of Chuck’ TIFF Review – Mike Flanagan’s Uplifting Celebation of Life At the End of the World

September 7, 2024 Meagan Navarro Mike Flanagan, Reviews, Stephen King, The Life of Chuck, TIFF 2024

It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike […]

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‘The Substance’ Review – Absurdist Horror Comedy Unleashes Jaw-Dropping Body Horror [TIFF]

September 6, 2024 Meagan Navarro Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Movies, Reviews, The Substance, TIFF 2024

Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat set the bar high for herself in 2017, with her debut feature Revenge delivering a visceral, feminine twist to the rape-revenge thriller that climaxed in an epic bloodbath. So much that it seemed nearly impossible to top. Yet the filmmaker does just that with sophomore effort The Substance, transforming a familiar concept […]

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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review – Tim Burton’s Legacy Sequel Is an Overstuffed Halloween Romp

September 4, 2024 Meagan Navarro Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, featured, Michael Keaton, Reviews, Tim Burton, topnews, Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton reunite with director Tim Burton to venture back into the whimsically macabre realm that made the 1988 classic Beetlejuice an enduring fan favorite. The long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, appropriately takes place 30-something years after the Ghost with the Most tried to con his way back to life with […]

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“Anne Rice’s The Talamasca” Finds Its Lead In Nicholas Denton

September 4, 2024 Meagan Navarro Anne Rice, Anne Rice's The Talamasca, Nicholas Denton, The Talamasca, TV

AMC Networks has a hit property on its hands with the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, which thus far includes “Interview with the Vampire” and “Mayfair Witches.” Its third spinoff, currently titled “Anne Rice’s The Talamasca,” is on the way, and it’s found its lead in Nicholas Denton (Dangerous Liaisons, Glitch). The six-episode inaugural season will focus on […]

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Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Alfred Molina and More Join Netflix Supernatural Series “The Boroughs”

September 4, 2024 Meagan Navarro TV

Up next from Netflix and Executive Producers The Duffer Brothers (“Stranger Things”) is the supernatural mystery series “The Boroughs.” Today, Netflix announced that Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman are set to star. Here’s the logline for the upcoming sci-fi series, which sounds like a mixture of “Stranger Things” and Cocoon. […]

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‘What Happened to Dorothy Bell?’ Teaser Introduces Found Footage Chills Ahead of Fantastic Fest Premiere

September 3, 2024 Meagan Navarro Exclusives, Fantastic Fest, Fantastic Fest 2024, Lisa Wilcox, Movies, What Happened to Dorothy Bell

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child star Lisa Wilcox appears in an eerie new teaser for upcoming found footage film What Happened to Dorothy Bell? The coming-of-age horror film from writer/director Danny Villanueva Jr. is set to make its premiere later this month […]

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Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend 2024 Lineup Includes ‘V/H/S/Beyond’ and More

September 3, 2024 Meagan Navarro Apartment 7A, Movies, Popcorn Frights, V/H/S/Beyond

Popcorn Frights’ Wicked Weekend, an annual celebration of all things spooky, returns later this month. Running September 25-29 at the historic Gateway Theater, Wicked Weekend will feature eight film premieres and special presentations highlighted by new nightmares. Wicked Weekend is headlined by a special presentation of Paramount+’s horrifying Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A, a frightening […]

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Bloody Disgusting’s Fall 2024 Preview: 40 Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween

August 30, 2024 Meagan Navarro Apartment 7A, Azrael, Bagman, featured, Frankie Freako, House of Spoils, Movies, Never Let Go, salem's lot, Smile 2, Terrifier 3, The Subtance, topnews, V/H/S/Beyond

The most wonderful time of the year is at hand: Halloween season has arrived. The signs are everywhere, from the cooling weather to pumpkin spice-flavored treats and beyond. But the biggest telltale sign of Halloween is arguably the overwhelming slate of horror releases packed into September and October to ensure maximum fright for the holiest […]

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‘Out Come the Wolves’ Director Adam MacDonald Talks Woods Horror Trilogy and Hopes to Remake ‘Congo’

August 29, 2024 Meagan Navarro Adam MacDonald, Backcountry, Interviews, Out Come the Wolves

Backcountry and Pyewacket director Adam MacDonald is back this year with Out Come the Wolves, a survival horror movie set for theatrical and VOD release on August 30. MacDonald reteams with Backcountry star Missy Peregrym on the thriller, this time pitting the actor against a metaphorical and physical pack of wolves. Out Comes with Wolves follows Sophie […]

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‘The Deliverance’ Review – Riveting Drama Clashes with Faith-Based Horror

August 28, 2024 Meagan Navarro Andra Day, Glenn Close, Lee Daniels, Netflix, Reviews, The Deliverance

Horror is almost an afterthought in director Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance. The director behind domestic drama Precious and musical biopic United States vs. Billie Holiday draws inspiration from the true story of Latoya Ammons, focusing on the plight of a single mother struggling to survive when her new home harbors an evil that means them […]

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Five Back to School Horror Movies to Stream This Week

August 26, 2024 Meagan Navarro Battle Royale, Class of 1984, Cooties, featured, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Movies, Stay Home Watch Horror, The Faculty, topnews

School is starting to get back in session for many, hammering in one of the final nails of summer’s coffin. It’s fitting that the new school year heralds in the arrival of Fall; few things are scarier than the hells of school. Students must deal with homework, teachers, parents, social structures, and puberty. Teachers must […]

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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Heads Home to Paramount+ This Week

August 26, 2024 Meagan Navarro A Quiet Place: Day One, Home Video, Lupita Nyong’o, Movies, Paramount+

Director Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One is set to begin streaming exclusively on Paramount+ tomorrow, August 27, in the U.S. and Canada. Certified Fresh™ with an 86% Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes, A Quiet Place: Day One expands the franchise’s groundbreaking universe, taking fans back to the first day of the invasion by deadly creatures who […]

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‘The Deliverance’ – Andra Day and Glenn Close Talk Fear, Cycles of Abuse and the Unique Filming Experience [Interview]

August 26, 2024 Meagan Navarro Andra Day, Glenn Close, Interviews, Lee Daniels, Movies, Netflix, The Deliverance

Netflix’s possession horror movie The Deliverance centers on a single mother struggling to raise her kids while struggling with her inner demons, and that’s before the actual evil takes root in the new family home. Cycles of abuse lead to intense confrontations in this family, particularly between protagonist Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) and her mother Alberta […]

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Popcorn Frights 2024 Award Winners: ‘Strange Darling’ Wins Best Feature Prize, ‘Old Wounds’ Earns Inaugural Award

August 23, 2024 Meagan Navarro Movies, Popcorn Frights 2024

Popcorn Frights Film Festival announced its juried and audience awards that were selected from a packed lineup of 131 films — a program encompassing 48 features and 83 shorts hailing from 20 different countries, spanning nine distinct categories, that reached 12,700 fans. From the press release: “This year, the jury panel, comprised of national media figures […]

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‘The Crow’ Review – Disjointed Reimagining Struggles to Find Its Own Identity

August 23, 2024 Meagan Navarro Bill Skarsgard, Reviews, Rupert Sanders, The Crow

Director Alex Proyas‘ vision of James O’Barr’s comic book, The Crow, firmly rooted itself in the pop culture pantheon, a defining film of the ’90s for its dreamy gothic style and the tragic on-set passing of its star, Brandon Lee. Proyas‘ take on The Crow was so singular and successful that it launched a film […]

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