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Tribeca 2024 Capsule Reviews: From Folkloric ‘The Damned’ to Surreal Psychotronic ‘She Loved Blossoms More’

June 17, 2024 Meagan Navarro Restless, Reviews, She Loved Blossoms More, The Damned, The Weekend, Tribeca, Tribeca 2024, Vulcanizadora

The latest edition of the Tribeca Film Festival draws to a close in New York City, leaving another strong year for new genre premieres, retrospectives, and events in its wake. Tribeca 2024 unveiled the new premiere of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s ultra-bleak The Devil’s Bath, raucous slasher AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead, goopy sci-fi horror […]

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‘Beacon’ Tribeca Review – Paranoid Psychodrama Leaves Most of Its Horror at Sea

June 13, 2024 Meagan Navarro Beacon, Demian Bichir, Reviews, Roxy Shih, Tribeca, Tribeca 2024

Seafarers are superstitious folk. It’s unsurprising, given the ocean’s volatile nature, that sailors would look for omens to embrace or avoid in the hopes of a safe voyage. It’s a failure to properly honor nautical superstition just before a shipwreck that kickstarts Beacon, a paranoid psychological thriller that traps two strangers together on an almost […]

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‘The A-Frame’ Tribeca Review – A Sci-fi Horror Comedy With a Macabre Sense of Justice

June 7, 2024 Meagan Navarro Calvin Lee Reeder, Reviews, The A-Frame, Tribeca, Tribeca 2024

The setup for writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder’s dark, goopy sci-fi horror comedy The A-Frame adheres to the time-honored tradition of ambitious scientists unleashing grotesque horrors when dabbling with unknown realities beyond our own. While that does mean Cronenbergian body horror ahead, Reeder’s pitch-black sense of humor instead places this twisted slice of sci-fi horror closer […]

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14 Must-See Genre Movies and Events Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival 2024

June 4, 2024 Meagan Navarro A Desert, All My Friends Are Dead, AMFAD, Beacon, Godzilla, Movies, north by northwest, The Devil's Bath, The Unknown, Tribeca, Tribeca 2024

The Tribeca Film Festival 2024, presented by OKX, is back this week with tons of new genre premieres, retrospectives, and events to get excited about. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16 in New York City showcases the best emerging talent from across the globe alongside established names. Horror fans can look forward to buzzy titles like The Devil’s […]

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‘Lumberjack the Monster’ – Takashi Miike’s Serial Killer vs Psychopath Thriller Heads to Netflix This Summer

April 11, 2024 Meagan Navarro Lumberjack the Killer, Movies, Takashi Miike, Tribeca

Prolific genre filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is back with Lumberjack the Monster, an adaptation of Kaibutsu no Kikori by Mayusuke Kurai. And it’s heading to Netflix this summer. It’s going to be battle to the death between a serial killer and a psychopath. Lumberjack the Monster will make its North American premiere on May 6 at the Japan Society, […]

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‘You’ll Never Find Me’ – Directors Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen Discuss Challenges in Creating Single-Location Horror [Interview]

June 14, 2023 Meagan Navarro Interviews, Movies, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023, You’ll Never Find Me

Claustrophobic chamber piece You’ll Never Find Me, the feature directorial debut by Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen, just debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it introduced a haunting new entry in Australian horror. In the film, “An isolated man living in the back of a desolate caravan park is visited by a desperate young woman seeking shelter from […]

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‘Bad Things’ Tribeca Review – Mommy Issues and Flawed Characters Haunt This Riff on ‘The Shining’

June 13, 2023 Meagan Navarro Bad Things, Reviews, Shudder, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023

Writer/Director Stewart Thorndike’s 2014 film Lyle introduced a contemporary riff on Rosemary’s Baby. Thorndike’s latest, Bad Things, continues the filmmaker’s horror explorations of motherhood, this time through Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. A psychological horror film set at an isolated, wintry hotel becomes ground zero for deeply flawed characters to explore their ghosts to mixed success. Much like Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance, Bad Things introduces […]

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‘Suitable Flesh’ Tribeca Review – Joe Lynch Pays Tribute to Stuart Gordon in Beguiling Lovecraft Tale

June 12, 2023 Meagan Navarro Barbara Crampton, Joe Lynch, Reviews, Suitable Flesh, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023

The spirit of Stuart Gordon is alive and well in Joe Lynch’s Suitable Flesh. The adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep,” written by Dennis Paoli (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon), and produced by Brian Yuzna and Barbara Crampton, seamlessly inserts itself into Gordon’s Lovecraftian cinematic world from its opening scene set in a hospital that’s instantly evocative of Re-Animator. Lynch captures the humorous, oft-sexy […]

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‘Somewhere Quiet’ Tribeca Review – Genre-Bending Character Study Re-Examines the Final Girl

June 12, 2023 Meagan Navarro Jennifer Kim, Marin Ireland, Reviews, Somewhere Quiet, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023

Writer/Director Olivia West Lloyd’s feature debut, Somewhere Quiet, picks up after a Final Girl has survived her horror story to examine the psychological toll of surviving. Emphasis on psychological; Somewhere Quiet isn’t interested in the inciting horror event itself but rather in interrogating the complexities that survival brings. It results in a self-assured, genre-bending debut that plunges its heroine […]

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‘You’ll Never Find Me’ Tribeca Review – Classic Ghost Story Setup Gives Way to Something More Grim

June 12, 2023 Meagan Navarro Movies, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023, You’ll Never Find Me

“It was a dark and stormy night” is an opening phrase instantly evocative of classic horror stories, a dramatic mood setter that evolved into a cliché and sometimes loving parody. You’ll Never Find Me, the feature directorial debut by Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen, is a somber tale set on a dark and stormy night. But the filmmakers instead reclaim […]

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5 Horror Movies We Can’t Wait to See at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival

June 6, 2023 Meagan Navarro Bad Things, Editorials, Movies, Perpetrator, Suitable Flesh, Tribeca, Tribeca 2023, Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Festival is nearly here, taking place June 7 to June 18, and it brings a packed slate of screenings and premieres. The festival’s 22nd edition offers a hybrid experience of virtual and in-person, with notable genre programming dedicated to repertory screenings that include Re-Animator to upcoming premieres. In other words, Tribeca’s bringing the horror this year. […]

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‘Next Exit’ Tribeca Review – Supernatural Drama Ponders Life’s Meaning on Road Trip Toward Death

June 13, 2022 Meagan Navarro Mali Elfman, Movies, Next Exit, Rahul Kohli, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

Writer/director Mali Elfman’s directorial feature debut sets its story after the world has finally solved one of its most elusive questions; is there life after death? Next Exit answers that question straightaway by introducing a society that’s widely embraced the presence of ghosts, especially those of loved ones. But not all hauntings are welcome, and Elfman’s supernatural drama […]

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‘Attachment’ Tribeca Review – Romance Gets Complicated by Family Tradition and Possession

June 12, 2022 Meagan Navarro Attachment, Gabriel Bier Gislason, Movies, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

A meet-cute and whirlwind romance gets complicated by overbearing parents, and clashing religions make for a familiar setup to the romantic comedy. Writer/Director Gabriel Bier Gislason reinvigorates the concept by framing it through the lens of horror in Attachment. It’s not just an overbearing mother and Orthodox Judaism presenting roadblocks to budding love, but an ambiguous and eerie […]

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‘Family Dinner’ Tribeca Review – The Easter Holiday Brings Slow-Burn Psychological Torment

June 10, 2022 Meagan Navarro Family Dinner, Movies, Peter Hengl, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

Writer/Director Peter Hengl’s feature debut, Family Dinner, combines the discomfort and cringe of awkward family dynamics at the dinner table with holiday horror. In this instance, the holiday is Easter, a rarity in the genre space. Family Dinner unfurls its methodical slow-burn tale in the days leading up to Easter Sunday, centering volatile relationships and strict, peculiar holiday traditions to […]

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‘Huesera’ Tribeca Review – A Folktale Transforms Modern Maternal Fears Into a Nightmare

June 10, 2022 Meagan Navarro Huesera, Movies, Reviews, Tribeca, Tribeca 2022

La Huesera, the bone woman, is a Mexican folk tale of an older woman who wanders the desert and collects bones, often of wolves. Once she obtains all the animal’s bones, she sings by the fire and brings the animal back to life. The legend often tells of revived wolves transforming into women, running free […]

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