There’s nothing purer than a child’s mind. From the inner workings of their imaginations to their nightmares, it’s the essence of genuine fantasy and horror in its rawest form. But what if they were more? What if a child’s imagination was a gateway to a hidden world between limbo and …
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural will premiere writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar exclusively on Thursday, December 2, 2021. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original …
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Being a long-time fan of Ralph Bakshi, a subversive and controversial animation director known for using the technique of rotoscoping, I had high hopes for the SXSW 2021 screening of The Spine of Night, his new animated film. When I heard it had a similar dark science fantasy tone to …
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From Director Davide Melini (The Sweet Hand of the White Rose 2010) comes a new short film called Lion, and it explores a topic that is still controversial in today’s day and age: domestic abuse. Lion stars newcomer Pedro Sánchez as Leon, a young boy who begins the film cowering …
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Sometimes in moments of solitude, we seek companionship in things that aren’t real. Sometimes, that comfort comes in form of an imaginary friend. But what if that imaginary friend was a bad influence? All this and more happens in the eerie new horror, Company. Company is a 2017 horror fantasy short directed …
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