In the fourth episode of our film podcast, we talk about Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria and find unexpected connections between its gory violence and chaos, and …
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Four films from Fantasia Fest 2018
Four short reviews from Fantasia Fest, the biggest genre film festival in North America. …
Cam is an intelligent and positive look at sex work
In Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei's horror film Cam — which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal — the villain isn't sex work, but a camgirl's …
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What to see at Fantasia Fest 2018
Montreal is currently hosting Fantasia, the largest and longest running genre cinema festival in North America. Elena Lazic highlights some films to keep an eye …
Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie
Thelma has been compared to Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but Trier gives his female lead agency whereas Carrie was simply a victim. This is the fourth feature in …
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‘She can be strong, even when she is wearing a bikini’: Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss their feminist rape-revenge film Revenge
Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss the stigma around genre cinema, mixing humour and violence, and the way victims are still held …
Review: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror
Simon Lavoie’s gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the …
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Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw
Though told from Justine’s perspective, Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves …
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‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper
By using text messages as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions. This is the fourth essay …
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results …
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