The Voices of Our Mother: Sheila McCarthy Possesses the Screen in Unprepossessing Demonic Fable
ReviewJim SlotekThe Voices of Our Mother, Mark O’Brien, Horror, Canadian, Dysfunctional families, Sheila McCarthy, Shawn Doyle, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Carolina Bartczak, Georgina Reilly
Evil Dead Burn: Evil’s Easy, Family’s Hard
Camp: When Girl Power Gets Scary
ReviewJim SlotekCamp, Girl Horror, Avalon Fast, Canadian, Horror, Zola Grimmer, Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp, Sophie Bawks-Smith, Aidan Laudersmith, Izza Jarvis
Leviticus: & The Evils of Eating Shellfish and Wearing Mixed Fabrics
Affection: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings
ReviewJim SlotekAffection, Horror, Body horror, Psychological drama, Thriller, Drama, B.T. Meza, Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne
The Last Anniversary: A Demon-possessed, Apocalyptic Big Chill on a Budget
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian films, Horror, Apocalypse films, The Last Anniversary, Young adult reunion themes, Jesse McQueen, Kenneth Northfield, Jenna Vittoria, Directed by Brett and Jason Butler, Demonic ghosts, Revenge
Exit 8: Your Transit Woes Have Nothing on This Bedevilled Commuter
By Chris Knight
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The Canadian Film Fest at 20: Organ Transplants, Bearded Women, and One Trauma After Another!
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian Film Festival, Canadian movies, Plan C, It Comes in Waves, Mihhea, James, Nesting, #Vanlife, Hangashore, What Comes Next, Best Boy, Lucid, A Breed Apart, Akashi, Ballistic, A Farewell to Youth, Los Ríos, The Bearded Girl, Drama, Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Undertone: Placing Sound over Matter
ReviewJim SlotekUndertone, Horror, Prestige horror, Canadian film, Ian Tuason, Nina Kiri, Michèle Duquet, Adam DiMarco, Ryan Turner, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Jeff Yung
The Bride!: Here She Comes, Like It or Not (I Do)
ReviewJim SlotekThe Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Horror, Musical, Remake, Reimagining
Primate: Evolution Takes a Step Back. Violence Leaps Ahead
We Bury the Dead: A More Thoughtful Zombie Film
Original-Cin Q&A: Daisy Ridley’s Reflections on Zombies in We Bury the Dead
Your Host: Wheel of Misfortune and No Whammies!
The Toxic Avenger: Your Next Toxic Relationship is Here
ReviewJim SlotekThe Toxic Avenger, Remake, Horror, Macon Blair, Jacob Tremblay, Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon, Peter Dinklage, Troma Entertainment, Gory
Weapons: Don’t Be Scared. It Isn’t That Kind of Horror Movie
ReviewJim SlotekWeapons, Horror, Zach Cregger, Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madigan, Cary Christopher, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong
Together: Spouses Have to Stick Together in This Ace Body-Horror
By Chris Knight
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Push: Comes to Shove, Then Takes a Long Pregnant Pause
ReviewJim SlotekPush, David Charbonier, Justin Douglas Powell, Raul Castillo, Alicia Sanz, Thriller, Horror, Haunted houses, Haunted Mansion, Shudder, Streaming
Bring Her Back: Grief Encounters of the Creepiest Kind
Original-Cin Q&A: David Cronenberg on Grief, Conspiracies, and Piercing the Veil of Death and Dying
