Movie Review: GET AWAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/10/2025
GET AWAY movie poster | ©2025 IFC

Rating: R Stars: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, Ville Vertanen, Eero Milonoff, Anitta Suikkari, Jouko Ahola, Verneri Lilja, Ilkka Koivula Writer: Nick Frost Director: Steffen Haars Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: December 6, 2024 (theatrical); January 10, 2024 (Shudder) It’s easy to see how GET AWAY is supposed to work. It starts out as a parody of THE WICKER MAN/MIDSOMMAR type of folk horror, with a big twist at the two-thirds mark. It looks great, has the pedigree of SHAUN OF THE DEAD costar/PAUL cowriter/costar Nick Frost as star and writer, and plenty of mileage in its […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NOSFERATU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/25/2024
NOSFERATU movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney Writer: Robert Eggers, based on the screenplay for NOSFERATU by Henrik Galeen and the novel DRACULA by Bram Stoker Director: Robert Eggers Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: December 25, 2024 “Nosferatu” is another word for “vampire.” It is also the title of the still-influential 1922 silent German horror film, directed by F.W. Murnau and scripted by Henrik Galeen, based on Bram Stoker’s novel DRACULA. Werner Herzog directed a 1979 adaptation, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, and last year, there was another version, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STARVE ACRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/26/2024
STARVE ACRE movie poster | ©2024 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Melanie Kilburn, Arthur Shaw, Roger Barclay Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel Kokotajlo Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: July 26, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel, STARVE ACRE is set in contemporary northern England. It begins with a poem, “The Dandelion,” by Neil Willoughby, which we observe is actually an invocation for a kind of devil. We’ll find out more about the poem’s author by and by. Meanwhile, university professor Richard (Matt Smith), his […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LORD OF MISRULE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/08/2023
LORD OF MISRULE movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, Matt Stokoe, Anton Valensi, Rosalind March, Robert Goodman, Alexa Goodall, David Langham, Jane Wood, Evie Templeton Writer: Tom De Ville Director: William Brent Bell Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: December 8, 2023 Folk horror doesn’t get much folkier than LORD OF MISRULE. Almost every frame is packed with masks, costumes, charms, decorations, and artwork of British paganism. Even the scenes that are relatively mundane are shot and adorned to look as though they can easily accommodate anything folklore-related that may turn up in the frame. For a good stretch, the film, written […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CONSECRATION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/09/2023
CONSECRATION | ©2023 IFC Midnight/ Shudder

Rating: R Stars: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson, Will Keen, Eilidh Fisher, Alexandra Lewis, Jolade Obasola, Daisy Allen, Kit Rakusen, Ian Pirie, Steffan Cennydd, Janet Suzman Writers: Christopher Smith & Laurie Cook Director: Christopher Smith Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: February 10, 2023 CONSECRATION gets off to a bracing start. Grace (Jena Malone) informs us in voiceover that her brother used to believe she had a guardian angel, while she believed in nothing. Onscreen, Grace is taking a peaceful walk outside a park when she is confronted by a nun, in full white habit, who points a revolver at […]Read On »


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Movie Review: YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/25/2022
YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER Movie Poster | ©2022 Magnet

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Ingrid Craigie, Jordanne Jones, Paul Reid, Katie White, Florence Adebambo Writer: Kate Dolan Director: Kate Dolan Distributor: Magnet Release Date: March 25, 2022 YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER has a title that indicates where its plot is going. Director/writer Kate Dolan makes a good case for how mental illness can easily be confused with supernatural darkness, while not letting her genre audience down. In a prologue, we see a baby alone in a stroller at night. A woman, Rita (Ingrid Craigie), runs up to the stroller and begins pushing it. She sets […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/03/2022
GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS movie poster |©2022 XYZ Films Releasing

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Thomas Hobson, Tara Perry, Phil Morris, Angela Bettis, Joseph Ruud, Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette Writers: Jordan Wayne Long and Tara Perry, story consultant Sean Anthony Davis Directors: Matt Glass & Jordan Wayne Long Distributor: XYZ Films Releasing Release Date: February 3, 2022 GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS is a rather bland title for a well-executed tale of period folk horror. The movie owes a debt to two other films. To name these would give the game away. Suffice to say that it’s a respectable homage to one, and a big improvement on the other, though it […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE ADVENT CALENDAR (LE CALENDRIER)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/02/2021
THE ADVENT CALENDAR Key Art | ©2021 Universal Pictures/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eugénie Derouand, Honorine Magnier, Clément Olivieri, Janis Abrikh, Cyril Garnier, Vladimir Perrin, Jean-François Garreaud Writer: Patrick Ridremont Director: Patrick Ridremont Distributor: Universal/Shudder Release Date: December 2, 2021 THE ADVENT CALENDAR is worth seeing for its title object alone. The antique wooden advent calendar, with a different size and design for each of its doors, is a joy of design, something any collector of folk art would be delighted to own – assuming they didn’t know what this advent calendar does. Eva Roussel (Eugénie Derouand) introduces herself, speaking directly into camera. She says she is a paraplegic, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE VIGIL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/17/2021
THE VIGIL movie poster | ©2021 IFC Midnight

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman, Lynn Cohen, Fred Melamed, Ronald Cohen Writer: Keith Thomas Director: Keith Thomas Distributor: IFC Midnight Release Date: February 26, 2021 THE VIGIL, originally released theatrically in February, is now available on Hulu. Most religious horror films are based in Catholicism, Christianity, paganism, or Satanism. THE VIGIL is therefore comparatively uncommon, as it centers around Orthodox Judaism. Specifically, THE VIGIL focuses on the real-world tradition of having a Shomer, or watchman, sit with the corpse of a newly deceased person. The Shomer recites prayers intended to comfort the deceased’s soul and ward […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DEATH OF ME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/30/2020
DEATH OF ME movie poster | ©2020 Saban Films

Rating: R Stars: Maggie Q, Alex Essoe, Luke Hemsworth, Kat Ingkarat, Kelly B. Jones Writers: Art Margolis & James Morley III and David Tish Director: Darren Lynn Bousman Distributor: Saban Films Release Date: October 2, 2020 DEATH OF ME is contemporary folk horror set on a Thai island. Christine (Maggie Q) and her travel journalist husband Neil (Luke Hemsworth) are staying at a rented house in this picturesque setting. Neil is here to do an article on the place; Christine is along for this working vacation. Christine and Neil wake up in the bedroom, covered with dirt and possibly blood. […]Read On »


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