After a while monsters tend to get boring, namely vampires and zombies, but the haunted house movie, more often than not, manages to hit close to home (no pun intended). It’s a genre that operates subconsciously, questioning our understanding of what may or may not lie beyond death. Steven Soderbergh offers more questions than answers […]
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While enjoying the solitude of nature, Margie, an inquisitive young woman, has an encounter with something disturbingly familiar. Through her subsequent pursuit she finds herself venturing off the beaten track to the very edge of reality. Shot in the luscious green bushland of West Gippsland, Victoria and written in 2020/2021 as a “Lockdown Script” –
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Sarah Appleton & Phillip Escott, a collaborative duo and horror aficionados, have followed up on their 2021 documentary, The Found Footage Phenomenon with a new feature Generation Terror – screening at this year’s Monster Fest in Australia. Examining horror films from the late 90s to the mid-2000s, this 100-minute feature presents an array of filmmakers and journalists
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Russell Crowe is back in theatres for the second time in a little over a month, but instead of fighting evil, he’s fighting to remember in the new crime/thriller, Sleeping Dogs – out now in cinemas through Rialto Distribution Australia. Retired and suffering from acute memory loss, ex-homicide detective, Roy Freeman, is asked by a
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When I was a kid the neighbours behind us had three teenage sons, all of whom had bucked teeth. My father, who never missed the opportunity to single out one’s physical characteristics, nicknamed those three lads, “The Bucky Beavers”. I hadn’t thought about that for a long time, not until an email arrived about an
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We’re already in June and the year so far has been especially demonic as far as the horror genre is concerned, but nothing new has been brought to the table, or pentagram. However, director and screenwriter Joshua John Miller makes a fair effort toward originality with The Exorcism – in which a troubled actor, played
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Planet of the Apes is one of the few film series whose integrity hasn’t been diminished by this age of remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings. In fact, the saga continued to prosper thanks to an emphasis on concise storytelling, firmly rooted in the annals of classic science-fiction. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a
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I work in what most would describe as a typical office environment. Fortunately, though, the company’s official colour is a bright shade of green, so there’s some visual stimulant to supplement the lack of windows. It’s the monotonous setting of many movies, namely comedies such as Nine to Five, the cult classic satire Office Space,
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Not including the 2006 remake, 20th Century Fox laid The Omen series to rest in 1991 with the made-for-television feature, Omen IV: The Awakening, and in the year that followed, Whoopie Goldberg re-energized Catholicism with the musical comedy, Sister Act. Over the subsequent decades, studios have merged, nuns are now scary, and a franchise is
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Melbourne’s Dockland Studios opened in 2004, as a bold artistic representation of the city’s growing ambition to be on the world stage and to claw back some lucrative media position from rival locations. Ghost Rider (2005) was the first major American film shot at the new location and quickly became the highest-grossing film made in
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