South Korea never runs out of pure, nail-biting, suspenseful cinema. First-time director Jason Yu, who’s worked with Korean cinematic giants Boon Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong, brings the thrills to a newlywed couple’s existence in his feature debut, Sleep. It stars […]

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French director Thomas Cailley’s thriller The Animal Kingdom introduces a surreal new world where humans undergo a bewildering change. Romain Duris and breakout star Paul Kircher are a father-son duo trying to keep their family together as the mysterious condition […]

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One of the most talked-about horror movies that came out of Sundance this year was writer-director Carlota Pereda’s Piggy. A feature-length version of her award-winning short film, it centers on an overweight teenage girl, played by Laura Galán, who is […]

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“The Ones Below” Holds the Promise of Thrills to Come

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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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Ti West’s recent films are in many ways intellectual filmmaking exercises, but his command of the craft and childlike enthusiasm for the visceral thrills inherent in his genre of choice help them to succeed as popcorn entertainment.

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(Murder Party screens on Sunday night, March 8th, at 11pm as the inaugural event in a brand new weekly screening series brought to you by Hammer to Nail and the Manhattan video store Cinema Nolita. The film will be followed […]

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