[Seen as part of the Overlook Film Festival] To meditate upon mortality is a timeless practice. To die in life, to live in death; contemplation of
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Weaponized Millennial Nostalgia: Joseph Kahn’s “The Ick” @ Overlook Film Festival
[ Seen as part of Overlook Film Festival ] Growing up, I remember hearing things about movies like The Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Beauty Breaks the Body: Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister @ Overlook Film Festival
Warning Contains Spoilers [Seen as part of the Overlook Film Festival] When Cinderellas asshole is one of the lesser impactful moments of a film for me,
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The Poetry of Gore: Alexandre Philippe’s Chain Reactions @ Overlook Film Festival
[Seen as part of Overlook Film Festival] Theres something very special about how an impactful piece of art reverberates in the bodies and memory of its
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Claustrophobic, Dissociative, Chaos: Joe Begos’ “Jimmy and Stiggs” @ Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
What is to be extracted from the horror films that are spurred on by covid. Our bodies violated. The dangers of friends meeting. Paranoia, agoraphobia, claustrophobic
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Time Destroys All Things: Irreversible: Straight Cut @ Brooklyn Horror Film Fest
[seen as part of The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival] Time Destroys All Things. 20 years to destroy the immutable. But this was the plan always; A
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The Haunting Nature of Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake @ Brooklyn Horror Film Fest
[Seen as part of The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival] A Romantic, a symbolist, a softly gothic tale. The bated breath of youth at the precipice of
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Christmas Horror that Fucks: Joe Begos’ “Christmas Bloody Christmas” @ Brooklyn Horror Film Fest
[Seen as part of The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival] Fuck!This film fucks!It fucks so hard and so heavy and doesn’t stop fucking.A 16mm neon nightmare, featuring a
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Fantastic Fest ’21: The Timekeepers of Eternity
Imagine taking a Stephen King direct-to-TV movie and printing all the frames and then recutting the movie back from that printer paper version to a new movie. That is what Aristotelis Maragkos did with The Langoliers to create the 2021 The Timekeepers of Eternity.
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