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Under the Shadow (زیر سایه)
The “haunted house” trope – an abandoned Victorian mansion sitting alone in the middle of a great estate or a crumbling castle on a rain-swept hillside – has been urbanized over the last thirty years. Our modern cities don’t have enough noise and technology to keep ghosts away. Candyman sets a vengeful spirit among Chicago‘s…
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A Ghost Story
A shimmer of light against a dark wall, a softly shutting door in an empty room, a sudden wakefulness and knocking in the night. Why do houses become haunted? What holds a ghost to a place? What memory, what seeking, what revelation will trigger release? Short on plot, long on mood and themes, David Lowery’s…
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Crimson Peak
There’s a point in every scary movie where things fall apart and they cease to be scary. Depending on what you’re actually afraid of, that could come very quickly. In Crimson Peak, the new ghost story from Mexican fantasist Guillermo del Toro, more than half the film is spent sans ghosts. By the time they…
