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REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)

April 5, 2020 Grant Watson

College student Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) is already suffering from depression, but when her sister commits a murder-suicide of Dani’s entire family it drives her to her emotional limits. She takes respite in a trip from the USA to Sweden … Continue reading REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)

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REVIEW: Missing (2019)

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Grant Watson

In Missing (not to be confused with the identically named Tsui Hark horror film from 2008) a grieving daughter (Gillian Chung) receives new hope when her long-vanished father’s police badge is found in a forest outside of Hong Kong. In her … Continue reading REVIEW: Missing (2019)

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REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 Grant Watson

15 years after escaping from a place of unexplained and unsolved torture, Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) storms into the home of a suburban family with a shotgun and massacres them in cold blood – believing them to be the people who … Continue reading REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)

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REVIEW: Inside (2007)

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Grant Watson

After surviving a car accident that kills her husband, a grieving and heavily pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis) spends Christmas Eve alone in her house, located in a French suburb rife with rioting youths. When a mysterious woman (Beatrice Dalle) arrives … Continue reading REVIEW: Inside (2007)

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“Oh, you suffer beautifully” | Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

January 20, 2020September 15, 2020 Grant Watson

In the beginning, a man opened a magical puzzle box and was dragged into hell for an eternity of torture. He escaped, his skin flayed from his body and what was left of him forced to hide in the attic … Continue reading “Oh, you suffer beautifully” | Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

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REVIEW: The Tag-Along (2015)

January 5, 2020 Grant Watson

Ho Chih-wei (River Huang) lives in a Taipei apartment with his grandmother Shu-fang (Liu Yin-shang). He works as a junior real estate agent while dating his girlfriend of five years, Shen Yi-chun (Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning). His aunt Shui has gone … Continue reading REVIEW: The Tag-Along (2015)

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REVIEW: Us (2019)

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 Grant Watson

Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) has recovered from a childhood trauma, and is now both married to Gabe (Winston Duke) and the mother of two children. When four strangers force their way into her house one night, Adelaide and her family find … Continue reading REVIEW: Us (2019)

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REVIEW: 1922 (2017)

December 9, 2019September 28, 2020 Grant Watson

Wilfred “Wilf” James (Thomas Jane) is a Nebraska farmer, living with his estranged wife Arlette (Molly Parker) and teenage son Henry (Dylan Schmid). When Arlette inherits a patch of land, she announces a plan to sell it and to open … Continue reading REVIEW: 1922 (2017)

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REVIEW: Red Mist (2008)

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Grant Watson

Seven medical students torment their hospital’s under-confident janitor Kenneth (Andrew Lee Potts), whom they have nicknamed “Freakdog”. When their latest prank results in his having a seizure and slipping into a coma, one of the students (Arielle Kebbel) takes extreme … Continue reading REVIEW: Red Mist (2008)

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REVIEW: Haze (2005)

September 4, 2019 Grant Watson

A man wakes up in a dark, coffin-like space. He can barely move, but move he must if he wants to survive, because he is bleeding from an abdominal wound. As he slowly works his way through this cramped, claustrophobic … Continue reading REVIEW: Haze (2005)

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