Tag: The Babadook
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‘The Moogai’ Review — A Horror That Dies in the Shadow of ‘The Babadook’
There are many fascinating visions of Australian horror that have made their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. There is the one everyone knows — The Babadook — just as there are perhaps lesser-known ones, like 2020’s Relic. A year ago, it was the breakout hit Talk to Me. Even though the latter is more…
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‘Talk to Me’ Producer Causeway Films Opens U.K. Division, Hires Daniel Negret
Causeway Films, the Australian film production house behind recent breakout “Talk to Me,” has opened a U.K. operation.The company has hired Daniel Negret, formerly of Head Gear Films, as its CEO.Causeway Films was established by producers Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings in 2014, launching with Jennifer Kent’s Sundance hit “The Babadook.” It followed that by…
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The Haunting at 60: is it still one of the scariest films ever made?
Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg count the slow-burn 1963 horror as one of the greatest of all time but it wasn’t always seen as a classicThere’s a strange kind of pride that many people take in not being frightened by certain celebrated horror films. “Oh, it’s not scary at all,” they’ll say loftily about The…
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After ‘Talk to Me’, Catch Zoe Terakes in This Brutal Prison Drama
A24 offering Talk to Me is an original and fantastically creepy entry in the canon of supernatural horror and a movie that follows in the footsteps of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook. Both Australian horror films share similar success stories. Like Kent’s revisionist horror film, the movie, from directors Michael and Danny Philippou is the sleeper…
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Talk to Me review – terrific creepy-hand horror offers a blast of wild punk energy
RackaRacka film-makers Michael and Danny Philippou let rip in their feature debut about suburban teens and an occult crazeThe Philippou brothers, Michael and Danny, are young film-makers from Adelaide who started as production runners on Australian horror classic The Babadook and achieved a cult following for their film spoofs on YouTube under the handle RackaRacka;…
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The Most Horrifying Movie About Motherhood Isn’t ‘Hereditary,’ It’s This
The horror of motherhood has been a prominent theme in horror films for years, dating back to movies like The Bad Seed, and Rosemary’s Baby in the ’50s and ’60s, and kept up by films like The Babadook, Titane, and most notably, Hereditary. Yet, the film to really capture that feeling of overwhelming anxiety and…
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No One Understands Motherly Woes Like Jennifer Kent
While Jennifer Kent doesn’t have an extensive filmography, she is one one the most important female directors of this century. If we count only the works Kent wrote and directed, we end up with two feature films, The Babadook and The Nightingale, and “The Murmuring,” an episode in Guillermo del Toro’s horror anthology Cabinet of…
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‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities’ Review: Horror Master Breathes New Life Into The Anthology Format
It’s been too long since a show like “Masters of Horror” allowed twisted auteurs a platform to explore the themes and images that haunt them. Enter Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning director who has gifted his fans with Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” even writing two episodes and introducing each of them like…
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‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Teaser: Jennifer Kent and Panos Cosmatos Spin Sinister Yarns for Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro’s twisted fairytales come to life just in time for Halloween season.The Oscar winner’s highly-anticipated horror anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities” debuts October 25 with a four-day, double-episode event on Netflix. Co-showrunner, creator, and executive producer Del Toro curates eight stories of unprecedented terror expected to upend the genre itself.Filmmakers onboard the horror…
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‘Blaze’ Review: A Pre-Teen #MeToo Survivor Leans on Her Magic Dragon
No 12-year-old should have to confront the violent act Blaze (Julia Savage) witnesses seven minutes into the imaginative empowerment story that bears her name. But Blaze is no ordinary girl, and fine artist-turned-filmmaker Del Kathryn Barton’s “Blaze” reflects that, using a dazzling combination of digital and practical effects to represent the interior world of a…