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Indescribable sequence from LA ANTENA (2009)
06:51 AM - Feb 11, 2023
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In Emma Seligman's SHIVA BABY (2020), Rachel Sennott & others become trapped in "an infernal comedy of cringe", as they must repress their true identities and aspirations to keep up appearances at a Jewish post-funerary reception. 6.15pm tonight at The Prince Charles Cinema
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Emma Seligman's SHIVA BABY is a comedy of cringe, as two young women struggle to conform to expectation at a Jewish funeral reception

02:04 AM - Nov 30, 2023
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"Steven J. Mihaljevich’s Australian gothic psychodrama brings dysfunction, delusion and denial to a home on the edge of a small town": VIOLETT (2023) brings its woman in trouble to Australian cinemas from 8 Dec https://projectedfigures.c...
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Violett (2023) - Projected Figures

Steven J. Milhaljevich's Australian gothic psychodrama VIOLETT brings delusion and dysfunction to a home on the edge of a small town

01:42 AM - Nov 30, 2023
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"The choice is yours whether to see Brock Heasley’s feature debut as up-and-down romance, vehicular death dream, multiverse sci-fi or heavy-handed theodicean parable."
Of equal appeal to evangelists and ironists, THE SHIFT is in US cinemas from Friday
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The Shift (2023) - Projected Figures

You choose whether Brock Heasley’s feature debut THE SHIFT is romance, death dream, multiverse sci-fi or heavy-handed theodicean parable. 

03:53 AM - Nov 29, 2023
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"This directorial debut of one ‘Francis Coppola’ is a family gothic with an ingenious doctor/detective and proto-slasher tendencies": DEMENTIA 13 (1963) screens 5pm today on NYX UK https://projectedfigures.c...
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Dementia 13: Director's Cut (1963) - Projected Figures

The directorial debut of one Francis Coppola, DEMENTIA 13 is a family gothic with an ingenious doctor-detective & proto-slasher tendencies

09:11 AM - Nov 27, 2023
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Media invasion: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: NEXT CENTURY (1981) "shows the state playing us all as semi-willing puppets to someone else’s script". Out now in part of Radiance's 3-disc Blu set of Piotr Szulkin's SF allegories. Capsule for LWL https://lwlies.com/article...
A bewigged Iron Edem (Roman Wilhelmi) broadcasts 'independent' news from a studio
05:29 AM - Nov 27, 2023
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The worm turns... into a predatory raptor-like bird: S.S. Wilson's madcap creature sequel TREMORS 2: AFTERSHOCKS (1996) is now on 4K UHD/Blu via Arrow Video. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
Burt (Michael Gross) crouches down in the business end of a digger as a bird-like monster prowls just a couple of feet away
02:34 AM - Nov 27, 2023
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"Is death a species’ victory over an individual?": Shinji Somai's tempestuous, unsentimental coming-of-age film TYPHOON CLUB (1985) is on Blu from today via Third Window. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
Mikami (Yuichi Mikami) watches from a distance in the foreground as his fellow pupils dance and clown on stage
02:16 AM - Nov 27, 2023
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In Matt Vesely's locked-down mystery/psychodrama MONOLITH (2022), Lily Sullivan's podcasting protagonist "must either face – or efface – certain home truths for which only she has the black box." Screens 8.30pm tonight at Abertoir Horror Festival online.
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Monolith (2022) - Projected Figures

In Matt Vesely's locked-down mystery MONOLITH, an isolated podcaster traces a conspiracy theory ever more uncomfortably close to home.

04:11 AM - Nov 26, 2023
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Less is moor: Chris Cronin's cold-case mystery/folk horror THE MOOR "sees two people seeking the right location to bury their grief, guilt and gall". Screens 4pm today at Abertoir Horror Festival online. Don't miss this one! https://projectedfigures.c...
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The Moor (2023) - Projected Figures

Chris Cronin's cold-case mystery THE MOOR sees two people seeking the right location to bury their grief, guilt and gall

04:06 AM - Nov 26, 2023
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"Possession horror without the divine machinery": Nick Kozakis’ GODLESS (2023) "is trying not so much to frighten us into the pulpit as to open our minds to reason." Screens 3.30pm at Soho Horror Film Festival
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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023) at Overlook 2023 - Projected Figures

Nick Kozakis' GODLESS: THE EASTFIELD EXORCISM is a tragedy of faith, subjecting its mentally ill heroine to her community's blind belief

03:59 AM - Nov 26, 2023
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"Now a farce, now a melodrama, now a tragedy, it is uproariously funny until it is not at all": Caye Casas' tense, darkly comic THE COFFEE TABLE (2022) shatters the comfort of character and viewer alike. Screens 1.20pm at Soho Horror Film Festival
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The Coffee Table (La mesita del comedor) (2022) - Projected Figures

Caya Cases' tragic farce THE COFFEE TABLE shows a newborn's fracturing parents and the furnishing that comes between them

03:54 AM - Nov 26, 2023
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"Pascal Plante’s courtroom drama/cyberthriller cross-examines the identity and motives of a woman obsessively observing a horrific murder trial": RED ROOMS blankly interrogates the ambiguities behind voyeurism.
Utterly haunting brainworm screens 7.30pm tonight at Abertoir Horror Festival online.
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Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges) (2023) - Projected Figures

Pascal Plante's courtroom drama/cyberthriller RED ROOMS cross-examines the identity and identifications of a woman observing a murder trial

04:06 AM - Nov 25, 2023
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"disorienting psychodrama restages the traumas of a young woman in trouble who just wants to dance": Mercedes Bryce Morgan's FIXATION (2022) screens 5.45pm this evening at Soho Horror Film Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
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Fixation (2022) - Projected Figures

Mercedes Bryce Morgan's disorienting psychodrama FIXATION restages the traumas of a young woman in trouble who just wants to dance

03:56 AM - Nov 25, 2023
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"Anders Elsrud Hultgreen’s underground short blends microbiology, alchemy and the occult to show us our place in the cosmic sewer": SEPTICHEXEN (2023) screens 6.15pm tonight for TrashFilmFest at Bergen filmklubb - uavhengig kino siden 1961 https://projectedfigures.c...
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Anders Elsrud Hultgreen's underground short SEPTICHEXEN blends microbiology, alchemy and the occult to show our place in the cosmic sewer

03:31 AM - Nov 25, 2023
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W(h)erecat: Mary Dauterman's surreally transformative feature debut BOOGER (2023) "tracks a quietly grief-numbed woman who has lost that loving feline". Screens 11am today at Soho Horror Film Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
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Booger (2023) - Projected Figures

W(h)erecat: Mary Dauterman's surreally transformative debut BOOGER tracks a quietly grief-numbed woman who has lost that loving feline

03:14 AM - Nov 25, 2023
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"Andrew Bowser’s comedy horror lets an arrested incel act out his occult fantasies": ONYX THE FORTUITOUS AND THE TALISMAN OF SOULS (2023) screens 10.50pm tonight at Soho Horror Film Festival https://projectedfigures.c...
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Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023) - Projected Figures

Andrew Bowser's comedy horror ONYX THE FORTUITOUS AND THE TALISMAN OF SOULS lets an arrested incel act out his occult fantasies.

03:38 AM - Nov 24, 2023
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"Intense, disorienting, unsettling, upsetting, polarising... also intelligent, moving and strangely transcendent": MARTYRS (2008) screens 6.30pm tonight at True Romance, Camden, followed by a Ghouls Magazine trauma panel (Zoë Rose Smith, Iona) https://projectedfigures.c...
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Martyrs (2008) - Projected Figures

Pascal Laugier's extreme MARTYRS is intense, disorienting, unsettling, upsetting, and polarising but also intelligent, moving and transcendent.

03:00 AM - Nov 24, 2023
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Legless: Jesse Thomas Cook’s succession sci-fi comedy THE HYPERBOREAN (2023), written by and starring PONTYPOOL's Tony Burgess, "confronts a privileged family with its own drunken dysfunction". International première opens Soho Horror Film Festival 5.30pm tonight
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The Hyperborean (2023) - Projected Figures

Legless: Jesse Thomas Cook's succession sci-fi comedy THE HYPERBOREAN confronts a privileged family with its own drunken dysfunction

02:46 AM - Nov 24, 2023
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Gender is confounded and genre rendered reflexive in Daniel Liatowitsch and David Todd Ocvirk's meta-slasher KOLOBOS (1999), on ArrowPlayer from today https://projectedfigures.c...
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Kolobos (1999) - Projected Figures

Daniel Liatowitsch and David Todd Ocvirk's meta-slasher KOLOBOS confounds gender and anticipates the exploitative rise of reality TV

02:25 AM - Nov 24, 2023
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Shock rock doc: Rodney Ascher & David Lawrence's mesmerising THE EL DUCE TAPES (2019) presents a slippery self-styled deplorable. On ArrowPlayer from today. https://projectedfigures.c...
Shock rocker Eldon Hoke (aka El Duce), dressed in characteristic black KKK mask, gives the finger to the camera
02:08 AM - Nov 24, 2023
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"sees the ruins of postwar Japan exposed to a monstrous restaging of wartime trauma": Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju prequel GODZILLA MINUS ONE is in US cinemas 1 Dec, UK cinemas 15 Dec. Review for SciFiNow.
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Godzilla Minus One review: Godzilla prequel is an epic kaiju feature - SciFiNow

Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju prequel sees the ruins of postwar Japan exposed to a monstrous restaging of wartime trauma.

03:49 PM - Nov 23, 2023
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"a Midlands woman on a crooked, achronological path of vengeance": (p)review of Jonathan Zaurin’s small-town neorealist noir DERELICT (2024). Recommended. https://projectedfigures.c...
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Derelict (2023) - Projected Figures

Jonathan Zaurin’s small-town neorealist noir DERELICT sets a Midlands woman on a crooked, achronological path of vengeance

01:16 PM - Nov 23, 2023
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"a portrait of a particularly tenacious toxicity, as dedicated to denying itself as to draining others": David Farrier's doc MISTER ORGAN (2022) foregrounds an individual's pernicious gaslighting. On demand in US from today via Drafthouse Films
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Mister Organ (2022) - Projected Figures

David Farrier's documentary feature MISTER ORGAN is a study in sociopathy, as the filmmaker and his gaslighting subject play mind games

02:02 AM - Nov 21, 2023
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“a drug-taking couple checks in, drops out, eats in and works through what they really want”: John Ainslie’s trippy hotel psychothriller DO NOT DISTURB (2022) is on US VOD release from today via Dark Star Pictures. It disturbs...
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In John Ainslie's hotel thriller DO NOT DISTURB, a drug-taking couple checks in, drops out, eats in and works through what they really want

01:56 AM - Nov 21, 2023
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"an alienated second generation of Asian-Americans doing crimes and making rhymes": Eunice Lau's documentary A-TOWN BOYZ (2023) is on Prime Video and Tubi in the US and Canada https://projectedfigures.c...
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A-Town Boyz (2023) - Projected Figures

Eunice Lau's feature documentary A-TOWN BOYZ follows an alienated second generation of Asian-Americans doing crimes and making rhymes

01:30 PM - Nov 20, 2023
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Tony Randel's labyrinthine HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II (1988) self-consciously mirrors Barker's original while going deeper into its psychosexual horrors. On ArrowPlayer from today. https://projectedfigures.c...
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) - Projected Figures

The first (and best) HELLRAISER sequel, Tony Randel's HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II takes us to an Escher-like underworld of surrealist psychodramas.

02:23 AM - Nov 20, 2023
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"the film is only playing stupid, while its reality is rather more sophisticated": James Signorelli's postmodern ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988), starring the great Cassandra Peterson, is on ArrowPlayer from today. https://projectedfigures.c...
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) - Projected Figures

ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK projects Cassandra Peterson's altera ego on the big screen, trapping her in the sort of film scenario she normally presents

02:17 AM - Nov 20, 2023
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"The signs are posted all over town": adapted by Tony Burgess from his own unfilmable novel, Bruce McDonald's PONTYPOOL (2008) plays bewildered DJ to a Saussurean apocalypse. My fave 21st-c. horror, on US Shudder from today. https://projectedfigures.c...
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Pontypool (2008) - Projected Figures

Pontypool: unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror.

02:13 AM - Nov 20, 2023
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In Paris Zarcilla's modern gothic feature debut RAGING GRACE, "a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses". Screens today 9pm tonight at Abertoir Horror Festival. Review for SciFiNow
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Raging Grace Review at Fantasia 2023: Creepy portrait of family and class divides

In Paris Zarcilla’s modern gothic feature debut, a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses.

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"Rainer (NOVEMBER) Sarnet’s hard-rocking, genre-crossing kung fu comedy sends a holy fool on an (un)orthodox spiritual journey in occupied Estonia": THE INVISIBLE FIGHT (NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS) (2023) screens 5.45pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
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The Invisible Fight (Nähtamatu võitlus) (2023) - Projected Figures

Rainer Sarnet's hard-rocking, genre-crossing comedy THE INVISIBLE FIGHT sends a high-kicking holy fool on an (un)orthodox spiritual journey

04:37 AM - Nov 19, 2023
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