“Undertone” is the scariest movie you will ever hear, viscerally overloading your eardrums with haunts that are sure to keep you up at night and evoke a physical reaction when you hear it again.
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Only a smidge of monkey business here as we chat to “Primate” star Victoria Wyant about the perils of filming…
“Primate” keeps its premise simply, its violence gnarly, its runtime lean and mean, and its effects practical. It is pure, unadulterated monkey business, owning every part of its wacky premise and giving you exactly what you asked for every chance it gets.
There’s a beautiful blend of urgency and slow burn in “We Bury the Dead,” keeping the pace moving but keeping us hooked on the character study of its protagonist rather than drop us into one violent, blood soaked clash with decaying bodies after another.
I’m not ready to call “Weapons” a masterpiece, but I am ready to call it an evergreen brain worm that – if you’re willing to let it – stays with you indefinitely and will be a film we talk about for a long, long time.
“28 Years Later” requires some patience and perspective, but if you’re willing to let it take you and not imprint your own experiences of the previous films, you’ll be rewarded with something special.
“Bring Her Back” is the feel bad movie of the year.
“Sinners” is bold and beautiful and kind of all over the place, but whatever misgvings you may have about the narrative construction take a back seat to all of the film’s excellence. And “Sinners” is so goddamn entertaining it doesn’t even matter if some things don’t make sense.
The days are long and the movies are constant. Thus is life at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, rushing from…
The Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival is usual ripe with horror and thriller gems that endure throughout the…
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