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Interviews
Alireza Khatami Interview
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Award-winning filmmaker Alireza Khatami (“Oblivion Verses,” “Terrestrial Verses”) joins us for an exclusive deep-dive into his latest film “The Things You Kill” — a Turkish-language psychological drama that blends absurdity, tragedy, and dark humor into a haunting exploration of guilt, inheritance, and identity. In this interview, Khatami discusses his international filmmaking journey across continents and languages, the challenges of balancing tone in an emotionally complex narrative, and how his personal experiences inform his storytelling. He also reflects on the film’s autofictional layers, father-son dynamic, and the moral contradictions of modern life.
Essays
Happy Halloween! Movies About Witches, Pumpkins, and Ghosts
Stephen King’s despairing alter ego has finally found a home in 2025
- Excerpt: The mean-spirited early works published by Richard Bachman strike an appropriate tone for the year’s movies.
Festival Coverage
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025 – Shorts] Grief’s Indelible Scars in Some Dark Matter / The Man & The Scarecrow
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two films about the dark extents of grief.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025 – Shorts] Rebrand: A Quick, Bloody Marathon of Horror
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Though there’s a wholly different setup and story, Rebrand is a spiritual cousin of Ti West’s You’re Next.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025 – Shorts] The Horrifying Realities of Dating Men in Brian Won’t Wear Condoms & Y.M.G.
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two films about the terrors of dating men in a hetero relationship.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025 – Shorts] You Have Her Eyes is Haunting Heteronormative Terror
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The screenplay—co-written by Sommerlad, Stonebrook, and Miller—goes from a Gothic ghost story to a real-life tale of horror, portraying one of many horrors that can, and does, occur in a heteronormative relationship when women are subjected to the expectations of motherhood.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025] Gruesome Commodity Fetishism in Kenichi Ugana’s Incomplete Chairs
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Incomplete Chairs is a serious film, even when hilariously satirical. It’s a brutally efficient story about the ghastly endgame of materialistic obsession, and how capitalism can terrorise the individual past sanity’s breaking point.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025] It Needs Eyes: A Haunting Exploration of Voyeurism
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The film asks its audience: how much horror are we willing to watch, and what lasting effects will those horrors leave us with?
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025] The Birth & Death of Identity in Abigail Before Beatrice
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: What starts as a story about Beatrice living a new life becomes a disturbing perspective on what happens when identity and autonomy are taken from a person—regaining control as an individual can be a difficult process that hurts far more than it heals.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025] The Paranoid Terrors of Motherhood in Mother’s Baby
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Mother’s Baby goes against the idea that motherhood is meant to be a perfect, beautiful experience; sometimes motherhood is dark and full of terrors.
[Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2025] Tinsman Road & The Dangerous Weight of Grief
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Tinsman Road is a bit too long, and meanders too much for the suspense to hold up through the runtime; however, it remains an often chilling, always claustrophobic rumination on the dark void left behind when a loved one is ripped from those who love them.
Awards Coverage
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Makeup, 2007
Upcoming Film Previews
Clika
Ella McCay, Updated
I Can Only Imagine 2
Little Trouble Girls
Predator: Badlands, Updated
Primate, Updated
Rebuilding
The Secret Agent, Updated
Stone Cold Fox
Troll 2, Updated
Violent Ends
Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl
Reviews of Short Films
The Fox Deserved It (1959)
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “The Fox Deserved It” is in fact a piece of animation of genuine quality, which remains intriguing to watch even after all these years, particularly for research purposes.
Gone People (2025)
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Gone People” is an exceptional short, beautifully shot and deeply human, thriving on how director Kong Junying weaves the Chingming Festival into a broader reflection on family, loss, and the quiet pain of disconnection in contemporary China.
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 605: Seeking A Song For The End Of The World
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: 11 Reviews this week including the latest from Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, Richard Linklater and Kelly Reichardt plus the Springsteeen film and a ’90s remake.
Movie Madness Episode 606: Have You Read Sutter Cane?
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: This week physical media serves up John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Dan Curtis, Abel Ferrara, Richard Stanley, an infamous slasher spoof and Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Joseph Heller.
The Take-Up Podcast: Bugonia
Box Office History (Week 43, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 24
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 25
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 26
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 27
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 28
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 29
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 30
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Regretting You”
Poll: What Are You Most Anticipating? (Nov. 2025, Limited)
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2025)
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