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The Final Girls (TIFF Review 2015)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: A group of teens find themselves sucked into a cheesy eighties slasher flick, where they must do battle with a Jason-style killer so they can return home. REVIEW: THE FINAL GIRLS is like the LAST ACTION HERO of horror...

Pay the Ghost (Movie Review)

Rating: 6/10
PLOT: A father's desperate search for his missing child unearths a Halloween curse that goes back more than 300 years. REVIEW: Nicolas Cage has a tendency to go over-the-top, a fact which has become overwhelming in his public perception and...
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Review: Mr. Right (TIFF 2015)

Rating: 6/10
PLOT: A cheerful hit-man (Sam Rockwell) falls for an unlucky-in-love young woman (Anna Kendrick) but their relationship is threatened by his murderous former mentor (Tim Roth) and an army of contract killers looking to take him out. REVIEW: The word...
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Review: The Witch (TIFF 2015)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: Expelled from their village, a family of  devoutly Christian settlers encounter supernatural forces in 17th century New England. REVIEW: Not catching THE WITCH at Sundance this year proved to be one of my only true regrets of the festival,...

Some Kind Of Hate (Movie Review)

Rating: 4/10
PLOT: When bullied teenager Lincoln Taggert is whisked away to a countryside reform camp, he inadvertently summons the ghost of a fellow bullied teenage girl who seeks gory vengeance on his behalf. REVIEW: With very little accredited preamble to speak...
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Review: The Green Inferno

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: When a group of student activist head to the Amazon to save the rain forest, their good intentions may kill them. After a few survive a horrific plane crash, those still alive are held in captivity by a tribe...
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Southbound (TIFF Review 2015)

Rating: 6/10
PLOT: Desperate travelers on a long-stretch of abandoned highway are forced to come face-to-face with their most primal fears. REVIEW: Anthology movies – by their very nature – are almost always uneven. At their best, such as the VHS series,...

Dark (Movie Review)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: Stuck alone in her New York City apartment during the Northeast blackout of 2003, a woman cowers from noises coming from outside but truly has more to fear inside. REVIEW: Directed by Nick Basile from a screenplay by GUT...
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The Girl in the Photographs (TIFF Review 2015)

Rating: 3/10
PLOT: A celebrity photographer (Kal Penn) and his vacuous posse descend on a small town when the amateur photographic work of a vicious serial killer attracts his attention. REVIEW: Being that THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS bears the name of...
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The Hive (Movie Review)

Rating: 7/10
  PLOT: A young man wakes up in a fortified cabin without any memory of who he is or how he got there. All he knows for sure is that  he’s infected with some kind of virus, there’s a dead...
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