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BITS Review: ‘Dark Visions’ Offers A Variety of Canadian Horrors

November 21, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

A skull sitting in bloody snow next to the words "Blood in the Snow Film Festival"

Blood in the Snow, a film festival dedicated exclusively to Canadian horror, returns for another year of fresh terrors.

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Filed Under: Blood in the Snow, Horror Film Festival Coverage Tagged With: Blood In The Snow Film Festival, canadian horror, horror shorts, jean yoon, Julian Richings

TADFF Review: ‘Late Night with the Devil’ Is One of The Best Horror Films of the Year

October 19, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

 What would happen if a talk show tried to conjure the devil live on a Halloween broadcast? Late Night with the Devil investigates just such a phenomenon. 

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, Horror Film Reviews, Toronto After Dark Tagged With: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes, David Dastmalchian, Fayssal Bazzi, Georgina Haig, Ian Bliss, Ingrid Torelli, Josh Quong Tart, Laura Gordon, Rhys Auteri

Secrets in the Woods: ‘Bark’ and ‘Mushrooms’ [Fantastic Fest Review]

September 30, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

There’s a long-standing tradition of the woods being a scary and threatening place. But for two recent thrillers that had their world premieres at Fantastic Fest, the woods provide less of an ominous threat than a background for dramas involving characters with secrets to keep.

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Filed Under: Fantastic Fest Tagged With: A.J. Buckley, bark, Jędrzej Bigosiński, Marc Schölermann, Maria Maj, Michael Weston, Paulina Walendziak, Paweł Borowski

‘Infested’ Is The New ‘Arachnophobia’ [Fantastic Fest Review]

September 27, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

People suffering from arachnophobia beware: Infested (aka Vermin) is your new nightmare.

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Filed Under: Fantastic Fest, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: creature feature, Finnegan Oldfield, Florent Bernard, Jérôme Niel, Lisa Nyarko, Sébastien Vaniček, Sofia Lesaffre, Théo Christine

‘The Strangler’ Is The French Queer Giallo You Didn’t Know Existed [Fantastic Fest Review]

September 25, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

At the offset of The Stranger, Émile, a young boy, smashes his piggy bank and sneaks out of his room so he can buy a comic strip from a newspaper vendor. What he doesn’t realize when he absentmindedly sits on a nearby picnic table is that an older man is following him.

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Filed Under: Fantastic Fest Tagged With: Eva Simonet, french film, giallo, Hélène Surgère, Jacqueline Danno, Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Paul Barge, Paul Vecchiali

‘The Coffee Table’ Is The Ultimate Feel Bad Dark Comedy [Fantastic Fest Review]

September 24, 2023 by Joe Lipsett

The Coffee Table is one of those impossible to review films because the inciting incident, which happens 20 minutes into the 88-minute run time, is an absolute game changer. It’s the definition of a “go in cold” film.

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Filed Under: Fantastic Fest, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Caye Cass, Claudia Riera, Cristina Borobia, David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Ma Riera

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

Words:
> Bloody Disgusting
> /Film
> Consequence
> The Spool
> Anatomy of a Scream
> Grim Journal
> That Shelf

Podcasts:
> Horror Queers
> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Recent Posts

  • ‘Materialists’ Interrogates The Cost of Love [Review]
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