Category: Something Wicked

Some of the best horror being made these days happens on the indie circuit. Cassie Keet’s Scream Therapy snuck under the radar, but I’ve been screaming about it ever since its release. Billed as a horror/comedy, the satanic film leans heavily into comedy with decorative horror elements. The physical and verbal gags mostly work, and

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I never expected Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! to affect me so deeply. When I watched it a few days ago, I was practically driven to tears. From the cold open, Jessie Buckley, as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, there’s something eerily visceral and transcendent about the words pouring forth from her lips. “What I

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“No help is coming. So, you better start saving yourself,” warns Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) in the last few moments of survivalist horror/thriller Send Help. I’ve been telling myself that for weeks, ever since I first witnessed Sam Raimi’s latest cinematic marvel. It’s a brutal refrain, piercing the camera lens through Linda’s thorny, yet totally

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