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'A Haunting in Venice' & other horrors
Kenneth Branagh's third Poirot mystery finds the reluctant sleuth wrestles with deep-seated guilt as he brushes shoulders with the supernatural.
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'The Nun II' & other horrors
Michael Chaves brings visual intrigue to an otherwise entirely bereft occult horror-whoddunit that, like recent 'Conjuring' outings, rests entirely on…
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'Perpetrator' & other horrors
Part feminist horror, and part witchcraft thriller, Jennifer Reeder's new horror-mystery is an ineffable scatter of ideas.
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'Bad Things' happen here
'The Shining' comparisons aside, Stewart Thorndike's suspenseful new film offers little nuance in its ideas about trauma.
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Terrors from Beyond
A list of hidden or unseen supernatural horror gems, from Ken Russell's 'The Devils' to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Seance.'
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The familial terrors of 'Cobweb'
This week's dispatch briefly tackles Samuel Bodin's twisted fairy tale about a world riddled with nasty tormentors, both young and old.
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'Talk To Me': Dare me to hell
Wholly misrepresented by the TikTok hype, this imperfect A24 horror entry has more on its mind than being "the scariest movie of the year."
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Deep Cuts
Deep Cuts
A twisted newsletter for horror obsessives. Horror film reviews, recommendations, and anecdotes.
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