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Immaculate - or Immaculately Flawed
Director: Michael Mohan Country of origin: United States, Italy Spoiler status: Light spoilers Sub-genre: Psychological horror Immaculate (2024) poster © Black Bear Pictures et al. Immaculate delivers a fairly familiar story, at least at first. A young nun joins a convent in the Italian countryside where she uncovers the nuns' dark secrets, but the darkest of them all is yet to come. The movie's eerie mood is set early, but the usual nun tropes break the focus. It's hard to
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Feb 95 min read


Mother of Flies – Strong Ideas, Weak Performances
Directors: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser Country of origin: United States Spoiler status: Light spoilers Sub-genre: Folk and Ritual Horror Poster image courtesy of Shudder . Mother of Flies is a visually stunning, moody, and surprisingly quiet movie. At first glance, it appears to explore the balance between life and death, acceptance and faith that one will somehow pull through. The filmmakers paid careful attention to these ideas and rendered them in a somewhat peculi
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Feb 35 min read


The Conjuring: First Communion — Because Apparently We’re Still Doing This
I get it. The Conjuring franchise is one of modern horror's cornerstones. The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 wear that badge of honor for a reason — but the rest? Not so much. After those early highs, the quality of the franchise gradually dropped. They are running on fumes, and it's painfully obvious. Well, obvious to us — not to them, it seems. Apparently, we're getting another addition to the series. That raises the question: is it really necessary? That's what we'll try t
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Jan 205 min read
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