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Nahnatchka Khan’s comedy time travelling teen slasher Totally Killer wears its influences on its extremely aware sleeve and that’s entirely the point of the movie and where the real joy of it is locat…
This review discusses sexual assault and torture. Matthew Holmes searing vigilante thriller The Cost asks, what do we lose when we enact violence on one other? It provides no easy answers as it opens…
Tobin Bell's banal John Kramer aka Jigsaw is a bothersome being. His shtick has always been 'put bad people in brutal torture traps and tell them to maim themselves to escape it', making t…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. On this episode Andrew chats wit…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. On this episode, Andrew chats wi…
Director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green made a canny choice in deciding to adapt one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known works for A Haunting in Venice. Although, to call it an adaptatio…
Once upon a time James Wan decided to make a film about real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). In 2013 The Conjuring universe was born and has thu…
PRESS RELEASE Australia’s longest running showcase of horror and dark genre cinema, A Night of Horror International Film Festival (ANOH) is back for its 15th year, with a frighteningly fantastic prog…
Disney’s Haunted Mansion is the third film (after 2003 Eddie Murphy-starrer and a 2021 Muppets variation) to be based on the Disney theme park ride. As the name suggests, this is yet another haunted h…
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This review contains mention of sexual assault, gaslighting, and toxic masculinity. It’s no mistake that Jack Clark and Jim Weir have a visual cue in the form of a Wake in Fright poster in the backgr…
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