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Sophie Thatcher’s ‘Blink’ Is A Lean, Fun Horror Short [SXSW Review]

March 14, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

A close-up of a scared blonde girl's face in a hospital bed

Blink is notable for a few reasons. The first is that the short is the first project from Scream Gems Horror Lab, which is described as “an initiative from Sony’s genre label Screen Gems and Scott Glassgold’s production company Ground Control” that aims to be an “incubator” for up-and-coming filmmakers to move from shorts to features.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, SXSW Tagged With: Scream Gems Horror Lab, short films, Sophie Thatcher, Spenser Cohen

[Nightstream Review] Exploring a Broad Range of Queer Horror in the ‘Slayed’ Shorts Program

October 12, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Each year queer horror gets the spotlight treatment in the ‘Slayed’ shorts program at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, which this year was part of the Nightstream Festival.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, Nightstream, Queer Film Reviews Tagged With: Aidan Brezonick, brooklyn horror film festival, Brydie O’Connor, David Janove, don't text back, going steady, i love your guts, jeff drives you, Kaye Adelaide, Mariel Sharp, queer shorts, Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple, short films, slayed, thorns

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

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