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Best of Lists
2024 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Top 20 Movies, Ranked
An Older Kind of Fear: Five Classic Halloween Horror Titles on Blu-ray
Interviews
24 Hours of Horror with Robert Eggers
Naomi Scott on Creating International Pop Star Skye Riley
Essays
Cult of Criterion: Demon Pond
- Excerpt: Dominated by a captivating crossdressing performance from Tamasaburo Bando, a Kabuki legend making his uncanny film debut as both a powerful spirit princess and her ghostly human foil, Demon Pond flits easily across the barriers of dream and fantasy.
Awards Coverage
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Directing, 2015
Upcoming Film Previews
The Brutalist
Cellar Door
Dusk for a Hitman
Get Fast
Infested
The King Tide
Moana 2, Updated
Smile 2, Updated
Tell That to the Winter Sea
Watchmen Chapter 2
Wolf Man, Updated
Festival Coverage
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] Black Eyed Susan: The Perverse Future of Tech & The Realities of Male Violence
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: There are only difficult, scary questions to confront, and when the film’s over the viewer’s left only with the company of a dark screen and the darkness of their minds with which to contend.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] The Last Sacrifice Explores Folk Horror’s Roots & British Identity
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Folk horror has long been a sub-genre of horror, both in written and cinematic form, and in The Last Sacrifice Rupert Russell traces its roots back to the “particularly gruesome” 1945 murder of an old man named Charles Walton in Meon Hill, Lower Quinton in Warwickshire, England.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024] Who’s Watching Flips the Script on ‘Creep Behind a Camera’ Subgenre
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: This story not only gives us a Creep Behind the Camera, it explores some of the Creep’s psyche, as Caleb is laid bare for all of us to see, in all his heinous glory, though it’s the women, in the end, who are the most fascinating, and most fierce, here.
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 513: Kooky, Spooky, Ooky and Topkapi
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: The horror month of physical media closes out Halloween with a couple choice titles, though the horror-adjacent ones may be even better.
Box Office History (Week 43, 2024)
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Oscar History: October 25
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Oscar History: October 26
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Oscar History: October 27
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Oscar History: October 28
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Oscar History: October 29
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Oscar History: October 30
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Oscar History: October 31
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