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Overlook Film Fest 2023 Announces Record-Breaking Jury Awards!

New Orleans, LA – The Overlook Film Festival, the seventh annual celebration of all things horror, announced the winners of the 2023 juried competition along with the Audience Award recipients. Taking place March 30 through April 2 in America’s most haunted city, New Orleans, LA, the 2023 festival welcomed 110 filmmaker guests, …

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You’ll Come Running Back: 25 Years of Gregory Hoblit’s ‘FALLEN’ (1998) – Retro Review

Fallen (1998)

I don’t think it’s out of line to characterize 1998’s Fallen as a bit of a hidden gem. Though it’s not a perfect film, I nevertheless find it to be effective and entertaining. Director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear 1996) is able to craft a lightly creepy atmosphere melding the genres of …

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Kong: Skull Island (2017) Movie Review

Finally, a reboot with a unique story. The original King Kong (1933) was one of the greatest monster movies ever made. It spawned not one, but two remakes telling pretty much the same story. A filmmaker wants to shoot animals so he travels with a large crew to a remote island where …

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Death Sentence (2007) – Movie Review

I’ve always been a sucker for a good ole revenge flick. Seeing countless films on the topic, it tends to get a bit repetitive. But on a rare occasion, an exception passes through. This can be said about James Wan’s 2007 thriller, Death Sentence. James Wan has always been known …

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