Warning: This article contains spoilers. One of the best things that can happen for a big-budget horror film is when it has the ability to dethrone mainstream movies, such was the case for Scream 5. While there is nothing inherently wrong with the big-budget superhero dumps that are made to cash in a quick buck […]

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When it comes to horror and horror-adjacent works, there is not always a need for it to be terrifying for it to be effective. Sometimes just using the backdrop of scary ideas and adding emotions into it can make a piece of work compelling. It wasn’t until a cold Christmas Eve day that I was […]

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To say I have been looking forward to the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is an understatement. The festival promotes horror that is directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. When I found out this information, it made me tremendously more excited, as it made me aware of the wide variety of work […]

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What do sexual assaulter perpetrators and two kids who don’t want to leave their hometown have in common? Wrath! The second block of short film programming from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is wrath, and oh jeez, is there some wrath up in here! While this may be the shortest category out of all, […]

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A lot of the time, when filmmakers try and tackle the idea of the internet and internet culture, be it through laymen or content creators/influencers, it is usually depicted poorly or just plain wrong. One dark hidden corner of internet culture is ARGs, or Alternate Reality Games. Things like alantutorial, Charlie Charlie (The Gallows), and […]

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