Late night horror screenings are one of my favourite things about MIFF.
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Immersion (きかいじま) (2023)
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Thanks Lowell for telling me to lower my expectations with this Gen Alpha meets ancient Japanese grudges J-horror.
Continue readingThe Forbidden Play (禁じられた遊び) (2023)
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This is a Japanese horror of Ringu (1998) ilk, all about vengeful wraiths and the monstrousness of female emotions.
Continue readingBarbarian (2022)
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I’m not sure of the wisdom of watching a horror like Zach Cregger’s Barbarian alone in a subterranean cinema on a Wednesday afternoon. My adrenaline was high for most of it as it twisted and turned through a dark labyrinth.
Continue readingYou’ll Never Find Me (2023)
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Sometimes you want a horror experience that’s visceral and uncomplicated and the debut feature by South Australian directors Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen gives that in spades.
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South Australian director Matt Vesely worked with a development lab and funding specifically for first-time feature directors to create a film on a defined, small budget to create this tense, one room, one character, sci-fi thriller.
Continue readingPerpetrator (2023)
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“Perpetrator perp-perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator.” The beats of Britney Spears’ Womanizer oddly fit this chaotic, feminist body horror by Jennifer Reeder.
Continue readingLate Night with the Devil (2023)
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This thoroughly enjoyable schlock horror game show pastiche is, as my MIFF buddy Not a Sexy Vampire aptly calls it, “the Don Lane show gone to hell.”
Continue readingIt Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingPiggy (Cerdita)(2022)
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Carlota Pereda gives us a delicious revenge movie that expands the story from her 2018 short film.
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