Excerpt: Portal Cinema had a wonderful talk with Damien LeVeck, a rising star within the horror genre that in 2019 presented in some top movie festivals the supernatural horror film “The Cleansing Hour”. The film was aclaimed by the media and it is widely considered one of the best indie horror films of 2019!
Excerpt: frustratingly flawed, the brothers haphazard in establishing both their characters and spatial integrity… any good will is wasted in an overblown climax full of stupid decisions, unlikely coincidences and muddled mythology.
Excerpt: It’s not necessarily rife with subtext or compelling theming, but it’s a really fun horror film that boasts charming characters, great gore effects, and a killer instinct in crafting crowd pleasing moments.
Excerpt: Don’t you hate it when an ancient witch moves in next door, possesses your neighbor, starts stealing children, and no one believes you because they think you’re acting out due to your parents’ messy divorce?
Excerpt: To honor nurses on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, “The American Nurse” a gripping documentary, has been released for free viewing.
Excerpt: If there were a thesis for Condon’s film it might be that film making as a capitalist industry, cheap horror, and pornography are all the same elaborate scheme.
Excerpt: The Lodge‘s terror exists in the real world, it’s happening right now— in the fanatically faithful, the cruelty of gaslighting, and the exploitation of peoples traumas.
Excerpt: From Here to Eternity is the kind of old-school Hollywood melodrama that you can’t help but fall for. And while it only occasionally hits greatness, the performances by Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, and Donna Reed are as iconic as they come.
Excerpt: The infection in this film is not simply a zombie virus, it’s whiteness and everything it entails: colonialism, patriarchy, and, most of all, the destruction of our natural world.
Excerpt: Dupieux’s DEERSKIN presents a sneaky, very black comedy that is at once a slick parody and a sharp commentary on modern pretension and pathological self-absorption.
Excerpt: Dujardin is a great comedic actor capable not only of subtle shading, but of true empathy with his characters, a quality that makes even his most obnoxious ones endearing.
Excerpt: Dupieux delivers a darkly funny exercise that pushes its premise as far as it can. It’s random, silly, and eventually takes the turn to disturbing, and the whole ride getting there is a lot of fun.
Excerpt: …considering the manic maximalism of Dupieux’s last major outing—2014’s ‘Reality,’ which seemed like it had about fifteen interweaving subplots in a dreams-inside-of-dreams structure—’Deerskin’ is relatively restrained, focused on only two major characters and a single absurd conceit. In that sense, it’s almost Buñuelian…
