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Promising Young Woman by Jonny Numb
Promising Young Woman: Advancing Toward the Inevitable Promising Young Woman is a revenge film that cuts differently than I Spit on Your Grave or Ms. 45, but stands alongside those efforts as one of the best of its kind. It differentiates itself from conventional thriller fare by advancing toward organic-feeling inevitabilities, not mechanical twists and turns.…
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1BR by Jonny Numb
1BR: A Fresh Angle As someone who’s never owned a home, apartment-based movies have always resonated with me. I consider Polanski’s “Apartment Trilogy” one of the unified masterpieces of cinema, because – from Repulsion to Rosemary’s Baby to The Tenant – he captures not only the dread of characters who are “different,” but the ominous…
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Eleven Best French Horror Films by Billy Crash
Eleven Best French Horror Films I hit a magic mark recently and watched my 100th French horror film. From that list, ten are amazing and worth talking about – while the top four are excellent and on the “best of all time” list. What follows is the Eleven Best French Horror Films with mini spoiler-free synopses.…
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Your Flesh Your Curse by Billy Crash
Your Flesh Your Curse Will Haunt You “The fucked get fucked,” may be the one line that says it all about Kasper Juhl’s Your Flesh Your Curse. His hammer blow into emotional distress is a vibrant, unsettling ride as we follow Juliet White (Marie-Louise Damgaard Nielsen) in her perpetual downward spiral into psychological terror. An…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Unsane
Is Unsane Really a Trip? Unsane, the latest independent film from renowned director, Steven Soderbergh, hit theaters to explore the sanity – or insanity – of a woman trapped within the walls of an asylum. Other than the novelty that the film was shot on an iPhone (see Sean Baker’s amazing drama/comedy, Tangerine), THE LAST…
