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SUITABLE FLESH 😊

Adapting Lovecraft to screen is no easy feat. Love his work or hate it, it would seem the most successful adaptations take the source material, strip it of its problematic qualities, and reconstruct its core into a modern, insightful retelling. Recent examples include COLOR OUT OF SPACE, half of the shorts in GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITY, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, and HBO’s ill-fated series, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (which took advantage of, reworked, and exposed Lovecraft’s racist viewpoints). The…

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WHEN EVIL LURKS 🤩

This October has been quite the letdown when it comes to new horror films. Once again, we’re inundated with soulless, big studio sequels, requels, and everything in between. However, while such intended studio “blockbusters” as SAW X and THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (don’t get me started…) were receiving lavish marketing treatments, one indie/foreign horror flick has snuck its way into theaters and created a word-of-mouth marketing strategy of its own: Argentina’s WHEN EVIL LURKS. Written and directed by Demián Rugna, the…

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SHARKSPLOITATION 😊

There’s a certain sort of terror embedded within our psyche of what lives in the ocean. We, as humans, are frail. We can’t hold our breaths for very long, our teeth are nearly useless in combat, and, by comparison to predators within the oceanic kingdom, we’re not very strong swimmers. These factors contribute to our innate thalassophobia: the fear of the ocean or the fear of deep water. Just in time for Shark Week, the new documentary SHARKSPLOITATION has made…

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