Queer.Horror.Movies

The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett

‘Dreamcatcher’ Is A Messy Attempt To Fuse Disparate Subgenres Together [Review]

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Dreamcatcher opens with a fairly conventional kill. A POC character, Kya (Nazanin Mandi), walks down a series of hallways before she is attacked and killed by a man wearing a mask. It’s familiar, but well executed and positions the film as a fun slasher film.

Alas Dreamcatcher has far greater ambitions, but lacks the ability to execute them. [Read more…]

[Review] ‘Mon Mon Mon MONSTERS’ Is A Challenging Depiction of Teenage Sociopathy

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What happens when entitled teens with sociopathic tendencies stumble across a vulnerable victim that also happens to be a serialing killing “monster”? Taiwan director Gideons Ko tackles the murky morality of what constitutes a monster with the confronting and frequently unpleasant Mon Mon Mon MONSTERS.

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