The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
Writer/director Jae-hyun Jang‘s immensely popular Korean horror film, Exhuma, takes a relatively simple premise about a team of paranormal investigators and spins it into a tale about history and class.
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Blood in the Snow, a film festival dedicated exclusively to Canadian horror, returns for another year of fresh terrors.
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There’s a long-standing tradition of the woods being a scary and threatening place. But for two recent thrillers that had their world premieres at Fantastic Fest, the woods provide less of an ominous threat than a background for dramas involving characters with secrets to keep.
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People suffering from arachnophobia beware: Infested (aka Vermin) is your new nightmare.
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At the offset of The Stranger, Émile, a young boy, smashes his piggy bank and sneaks out of his room so he can buy a comic strip from a newspaper vendor. What he doesn’t realize when he absentmindedly sits on a nearby picnic table is that an older man is following him.
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