Bertrand Bonello is a multi-hyphenate talent in the film industry. The acclaimed filmmaker is also a producer, composer and actor. His films have been associated with the movement known as New French Extremity. Bonello actually got his start in music […]

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Director/writer/producer Travis Stevens’ gonzo horror-genre bender, A Wounded Fawn, had its World Premiere at Tribeca and made the festival rounds (Fantastic Fest and FrightFest London) earlier this year. His film is a startlingly colorful and splashy genre piece exploring contemporary […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of She WIll, in select theaters and on VOD now via IFC Midnight. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Charlotte Colbert’s She Will, there is much ado about evocative imagery […]

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After exploring the reckless lives of youth in Enter The Void, Love, and Climax, Gaspar Noé returns to devastate us with a look at the inevitability of getting old and dying. In Vortex, which had its world premiere at last […]

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(The 2022 Slamdance Film Festival ran January 27-February 6, all virtually. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Killing the Eunuch Khan. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us […]

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(The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. Here, M.J. O’Toole gives a film review of Gaspar Noé’s Vortex. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per […]

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The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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A highly stylized horror film that pays direct homage to the tactile cinema of Italian director Dario Argento, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is rich in evocative atmospherics, if sometimes poor in structure.

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To some, it may seem strange that the daughter of the figurehead of American Independent Cinema would chose a horror genre as her first fiction feature and yet, in this current climate, where most indie films would make John puke with their utter cowardice and impersonal whiny pleas for market acceptance, this choice seems oddly apropos.

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