Movie Review: ODDITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/19/2024
ODDITY movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: R Stars: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French, Steve Wall Writer: Damian McCarthy Director: Damian McCarthy Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: July 19, 2024 (theatrical) ODDITY is a contemporary Irish horror film that uses multiple mythic ingredients for maximum effect. Dani Timmis (Carolyn Bracken) is alone in a huge, isolated manor. She seems unafraid as she chats on the phone to her husband, Dr. Ted Timmis (Gwilym Lee), who works at a mental hospital in the city. Dani has a tent and an automatic camera set up, hoping to capture images of ghosts. Dani also […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THINE EARS SHALL BLEED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THINE EARS SHALL BLEED movie poster | ©2024 Miracle Media Trinity / Creative Partnership

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Andrew Hovelson, Hannah Cabell, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Lea Zawada, Duke Huston Writers: Ben Bigelow & William Bigelow Director: Ben Bigelow Distributor: Miracle Media/Trinity Creative Partnership Release Date: July 9, 2024 (digital U.S.); July 15, 2024 (digital U.K.) THINE EARS SHALL BLEED is period folk horror that feels like a less ambitious version of 2016’s THE WITCH. We’re in the 1860s rather than the 1600s, the central family is not quite so strict, and the supernatural gets more verbal explanation. Nevertheless, it’s a clash between conventional evangelical religion and the forces of darkness. Reverend Ezekiel Thatcher (Andrew Hovelson), […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LONGLEGS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/12/2024
LONGLEGS movie poster | ©2024 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Nicolas Cage, Michelle Choi-Lee, Lauren Acala, Kiernan Shipka, Ava Kelders, Carmel Amit Writer: Osgood Perkins| Director: Osgood Perkins Distributor: Neon Release Date: July 12, 2024 LONGLEGS succeeds at being admirably scary, leavened by some very funny moments. Mixing FBI procedural thriller with supernatural chiller, writer/director Osgood Perkins has made a film that feels something like a hybrid of 1991’s THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and 1982’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. (The latter isn’t a spot-on comparison, but it’s close as far as the magical mechanisms.) We get quite a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE INHERITANCE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE INHERITANCE movie poster | ©2024 Vertical

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bob Gunton, Peyton List, Briana Middleton, Rachel Nichols, Austin Stowell, David Walton, Reese Alexander Writers: Chris LaMont & Joseph Russo Director: Alejandro Brugués Distributor: Vertical Release Date: July 12, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) NBC’s horror anthology series THE NIGHT GALLERY ran from 1969 through 1973. Created and hosted by Rod Serling, the show mixed gore with gentility in often upscale surroundings that looked expensive without being too extensive for television, and almost always with a twist ending. While THE INHERITANCE is a 2024 single-story feature (not to be confused with multiple other films with the same […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE MOOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/03/2024
THE MOOR movie poster | ©2024 Bulldog Film Distribution

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robinson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Mark Peachey, Vicki Hackett, Bernard Hill, Dexter Sol Ansill, Billie Suggett Writer: Paul Thomas Director: Chris Cronin Distributor: Bulldog Film Distribution Release Date: June 14, 2024 (UK theatrical); July 1, 2024 (UK digital) The Yorkshire moors in Northern England are plenty spooky-looking in broad daylight. They are vast, often mist-shrouded, containing ancient artifacts, and peat bogs that are like grassy quicksand. In other words, they are the perfect place for a ghost story like THE MOOR. In 1996 Yorkshire, young Claire (Billie Suggett) convinces her even younger friend Danny […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE EXORCISM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/21/2024
THE EXORCISM movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment/Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, David Hyde Pierce Writers: M.A. Fortin & Joshua John Miller Director: Joshua John Miller Distributor: Vertical Entertainment/Miramax Release Date: June 21, 2024 THE EXORCISM has an opening sequence that makes us chuckle, then yelp. For most of its running time, it commendably walks the tightrope between filmmaking lore, meta commentary and straight-up horror. For those who may be understandably confused, THE EXORCISM stars Russell Crowe, but it is not connected legally, in plotline or in tone to that other recent Crowe vehicle, 2023’s THE POPE’S […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IN A VIOLENT NATURE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/31/2024
IN A VIOLENT NATURE movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston, Alexander Oliver, Timothy Paul McCarthy, Lauren Taylor Writer: Chris Nash Director: Chris Nash Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: May 31, 2024 The horror genre has many subgenres. One of these is the slasher, which has its own collection of sub-subgenres. IN A VIOLENT NATURE seems aimed at those who can differentiate between, say, a HALLOWEEN film and a FRIDAY THE 13TH. The new movie definitely falls into the FRIDAY category. Instead of a summer camp, it’s an old mining […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WHAT YOU WISH FOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
WHAT YOU WISH FOR movie poster | ©2024 Magnet Releasing/Magnolia

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell, Juan Carlos Messier, Brian Groh, Ariel Sierra, David Tominaga Writer: Nicholas Tomnay Director: Nicholas Tomnay Distributor: Magnet Releasing/Magnolia (theatrical/VOD) Release Date: May 31, 2024 WHAT YOU WISH FOR takes its title from the familiar phrase that begins with “Be careful.” In this instance, the person who ought to exercise more caution is Ryan Moseley (Nick Stahl). Ryan has come to South America (the country is unnamed, but the film mentions Bogota and was shot in Colombia) to visit his old friend Jack (Brian Groh). They were at culinary […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HANGMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE HANGMAN movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: LeJon Woods, Marcellus, Scott Callenberger, Kaitlyn Lundardi, Rob Cardazone, Jefferson Cox, Lindsey Dresbach, Daniel Martin Berkey, William Shuman, Laura Loftus, Richard Lunello, Ameerah Briggs Writers: LeJon Woods & Bruce Wemple Director: Bruce Wemple Distributor: Epic Pictures Dread Release Date: May 31, 2024 (theatrical); June 4, 2024 (VOD) THE HANGMAN opens with the following supertitle: “There are at least seven known gateways to Hell across the world. One of the sits in the mountains of West Virginia. The region has no name.” This is intriguing, but it’s not the set-up to the type of horror movie we […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WE GO ON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/24/2024
WE GO ON poster | ©2024 Lightyear Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Annette O’Toole, Clark Freeman, John Glover, Giovanna Zacarías, Jay Dunn, Laura Heisler Writer: Andy Mitton, story by Andy Mitton & Jesse Holland Directors: Andy Mitton & Jesse Holland Distributors: Lightyear Entertainment Release Date: March 5, 2016 (theatrical); May 21, 2024 (remastered home video, digital) First released theatrically in 2016, WE GO ON is newly available in remastered form on home video and digital. Apart from what feels like a quaint reference to “the sniffles” as opposed to COVID, there’s nothing that seems especially dated about the film, and Los Angeles residents will appreciate its geographic veracity. […]Read On »


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