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[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Distress Signals (2022)
Distress Signals (2022), co-directed by Terence Krey and Christine Nyland, is making its world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival this year.
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[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Compulsus (2022)
Tara Thorne’s feature debut Compulsus (2022), part of Popcorn Frights film fest, is a tense and emotional, hard look at rape culture and violence against women and feminine people.
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[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: The Third Saturday in October & The Third Saturday in October Part V (2022)
Popcorn Frights film festival showcased Jay Burleson’s throwback slasher double-feature The Third Saturday in October Part V (2022), and The Third Saturday in October (2022). Meant to be watched in that order, they are love letters to the classic ‘80’s slashers.
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[Editorial] 13 Horror Films to Revisit From 13 Years Ago (2009)
13 Horror Films to Revisit From 13 Years Ago (2009)
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[Film Review] Torn Hearts (2022)
Torn Hearts (2022) warns what may happen if you meet your heroes. Director Brea Grant’s new film follows a band called Torn Hearts, a two-woman contemporary country music act in Nashville, Tennessee.
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[Book Review] Mums and Sons (2022)
Horror films often have so much to show and tell us, it can be impossible to catch everything in a movie in just one viewing…
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[Editorial] Interview: Mums and Sons - An Examination of the Child/Parent Relationship Pocketbook with Rebecca McCallum
Ariel Powers-Schaub chats to Rebecca McCallum all about her upcoming book, Mums + Sons, which examines the familial relationships in three horror films.
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[Editorial] 9 Horror Films From 9 Years Ago
9 Horror Films to Revisit From 9 Years Ago (2013)
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[Video] The Ghouls Gang Discuss Horror Films, Writing and Inspiration
Do you want to know what horror films inspire the Ghouls Magazine writers? Or perhaps how they first got into writing about horror? Have a watch of this discussion!
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[Film Review] The Ledge (2022)
The Ledge (2022) is a survival story that wants to be Frozen (2010) meets The Descent (2005) meets a slasher…
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[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: Women and Grief in Pyewacket (2017)
Pyewacket (2017) is a story about women and grief. It’s a horror film because the protagonist Leah (Nicole Muñoz) summons a demon out of anger at her mother (Laurie Holden), and it is a cautionary…
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[TV Review] Marianne (2019)
Marianne, born on Tuesday, she was happy on Wednesday, got married on a Thursday, became a witch on a Friday…
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[Film Review] Achoura (2018)
“On happy Ashura night, their joy burns too bright. He’s woken from his slumber, famished by a hunger. Their joy he wants to eat, those children young and sweet…
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[Film Review] The Advent Calendar (2021)
The Advent Calendar (2021) is the story of Eva (Eugénie Derouand) counting down the days to Christmas with some strange candy from a threatening calendar…
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[Editorial] Ho Ho Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2021
What could be a better way to boost the holiday spirit than a mini-festival of spooky seasonal short films? Before the holiday season gets maximally crazy…
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[Film Review] Red Snow (2021)
Red Snow (2021) follows aspiring novelist Olivia Romo (Dennice Cisneros), who is alone in her family’s cabin around Christmas…
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[Editorial] 12 Ghouls of Christmas: 5 reasons you should give Black Christmas (2006) a rewatch this year
The first time I watched the 2006 remake of Black Christmas (sometimes called Black Xmas) I thought it was a straightforward, fun slasher…
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[Editorial] Exploring Fear and Extreme Film in S&Man (2006)
Where is the line between real and fake? What scares you the most? What boundary will you not cross?
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[Editorial] Exploring Fear and Extreme Film in S&Man (2006)
Where is the line between real and fake? What scares you the most? What boundary will you not cross?
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[Film Review] Puppet Killer (2019)
Puppet Killer (2019) is the Christmas horror-comedy to add to your watchlist this season. It tells the story of Jamie (Aleks Paunovic), who watches a horror movie with his mom and dad every Christmas…