BAFF 2018: VIOLENCE VOYAGER is the grossest children’s adventure ever made

Have you ever found yourself watching a Studio Ghibli movie and thinking, “I wish these child characters suffered a strange bodily transformation”? Or perhaps you were watching The Fly and lamented the fact that Cronenberg hasn’t made a children’s body horror film.

BAFF 2018: THE GOD INSIDE MY EAR delivers stylish editing and hallucinations

There’s a small subgenre of horror films that I like to call the descent-into-madness film. It’s a tried and true, from Fuller’s Shock Corridor to Aronofsky’s Black Swan to Kon’s Perfect Blue, and when it’s done right it can be as unsettling and mesmerizing as the goriest Italian Giallo. These films do run the risk …

HEREDITARY haunts with grief, guilt, and ghosts

Movies and sitcoms often throw around the term “dysfunctional family” like a sort of cute tagline to describe a quirky, semi-likable bunch of characters who occasionally don’t get along; the relatable sort of family strife you can digest along with your dinner.  But Hereditary uses horror and the supernatural as a springboard for a more disturbing portrayal of dysfunction.

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