Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Medical Horror Shorts Are Scarier Than a Medical Bill

If there’s one thing to fear, it’s doctors. Who wants to know that your ticker isn’t beating right, that you have to stop eating fried food, or…that coal you’ve been inhaling your entire professional career had an adverse reaction on you? The third block of horror shorts brings us to the crippling world of medical […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Here Before Is Uncomfortably Chilling

There is something to be said when a child actor can carry a film, especially when they are acting against some high-class talent. Films like The Omen and Orphan are great examples of creepy kids making excellent antagonists and acting as the glue to piece together an effective horror film. When it comes to films with child […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Shorts To Make You Blood Red With Envy

Out of all of the sins, envy is the least fun. It’s full of sadness, regret, and pain. Envy can make a sane person in, or the nicest person go dark. It also creates some great moments for genre filmmakers to seize. The fourth block of shorts for the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is on […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: These Queer Horror Shorts Take You to Some Dark Places

Out of all of the blocks of horror shorts, this was the one I was looking to the most. I think that LGBTQ representation in film, as well as the genre, is sorely lacking and I was hoping that this block would be full to the brim with some excellent LGBTQ-related horror. For the most […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: You Are Not My Mother Is a Terrifying Folk Horror Tale

If there is one subgenre of horror my knowledge lacks greatly in, it is folk horror. It is a rich subgenre full of some great genre films like Hereditary, Gaia, and Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse, just to name a few newer examples. One thing about these folk films that a lot of people can relate to is family […]

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