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'Immaculate' & other horrors
Sydney Sweeney gets fully in the habit of making horror with ‘Immaculate,’ an austere thriller about the horrors of bodily autonomies. Plus, this week’s…
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'Stopmotion' & other horrors
Nightmares bleed into creative work in Robert Morgan's fascinating if narratively flat horror. Plus, this week's horror recommendations.
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Armando Dela Cruz
'Frogman' & other horrors
Anthony Cousins' found-footage film about an amphibian cryptid doesn't seem like it buys into its own ridiculousness. Plus, this week's horror…
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'Monolith' & other horrors
Overdue collection of capsule thoughts on recent horror films, including Matt Vesely's excellent thriller 'Monolith,' Jonathan Glazer's singular 'The…
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Armando Dela Cruz

January 2024

October 2023

'The Exorcist: Believer' & other horrors
David Gordon Green's messy 'Exorcist' "requel" spawns a superfluous, deeply unscary story about the intersectionality of faith.
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Armando Dela Cruz

September 2023

'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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Armando Dela Cruz
'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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Armando Dela Cruz
'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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Armando Dela Cruz

August 2023

'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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Armando Dela Cruz
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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Armando Dela Cruz
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