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A Dark Song
If occult magic had real power, what would it take to achieve it? If humanity could summon and control transcendent spirits, would the process be painless? Empowering? Academic? A Dark Song, an Irish independent film from first-time writer/director Liam Gavin, speculates quite the opposite. By turns intense, exhausting, brutal and horrifying, the filmic magic of…
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I Am Not a Serial Killer
The core protagonist here John Wayne Cleaver was definitely born with a serial killer’s name, and is brilliantly played by young Max Records (who also filled the shoes of the growing adolescent in Spike Jonze’s 2009 adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are). As seen in the film, being born with certain tendencies doesn’t chain…
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The Art of Horror
