254 | In a Violent Nature

• Not Rated 

• Runtime: 1hr 34min

• Written & Directed by Chris Nash

• Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic and Cameron Love

• Premiered at Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2024

• Released in theaters May 31, 2024

• RT: 81% critics / 43% audience

Synopsis 

When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.

Join us in four weeks when we review Maxxxine, in theaters on July 3rd.

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253 | I Saw the TV Glow

• Rated PG-13

• Runtime: 1hr 40min

• Written & Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

• Stars: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Ian Foreman

• Premiered at Sundance Film Festival January 18, 2024

• Released in theaters May 17, 2024

• RT: 84% critics / 68% audience

Synopsis 

Shy teenager Owen is intrigued by a supernatural teen TV show and an older classmate named Maddy who is obsessed with the show. When they begin watching the show together, the lines between reality and television begin to blur.

Join us next time when we'll review In a Violent Nature, now playing in theaters.

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252 | Double Blind

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 30min

• Directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy

• Written by Darach McGarrigle

• Stars: Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh and Akshay Kumar

• Premiered at Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival July 1, 2023

• Limited release in theaters February 9, 2024

• RT: 100% critics / 73% audience

Synopsis 

Test subjects for an experimental drug trial gone awry experience terrifying side effects and a lockdown protocol. As they try to escape the underground facility they also come to the unsettling realization that if they fall asleep they will die.

Join us next time when we'll review I Saw the TV Glow, now playing in theaters.

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251 | Late Night with the Devil

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 33min

• Written & Directed by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes

• Stars: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon and Ian Bliss

• Premiered at South by Southwest March 10, 2023

• Released in theaters March 22, 2024

• RT: 97% critics / 81% audience

Synopsis 

A late-night talk show attempts to grab big ratings during sweeps week with a paranormal-themed Halloween episode, which ends up taking a sinister turn

Join us next time when we'll review Double Blind, now streaming on Prime.

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250 | The First Omen

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 59min

• Directed by Arkasha Stevenson

• Written by Arkasha Stevenson, Tim Smith and Keith Thomas 

• Stars: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson and Sonia Braga

• Released in theaters April 5, 2024

• RT: 81% critics / 70% audience

Synopsis 

Another young novitiate from the U.S. arrives at her new home in an Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem

We mentioned Canadian comic, Mayce Galoni. Please check him out - he’s hilarious and delightful. @maycegaloni on Instagram.

Join us next time when we'll review Late Night with the Devil, now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.

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249 | Immaculate

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 29min

• Directed by Michael Mohan

• Written by Andrew Lobel

• Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte and Simona Tabasco

• Premiered at South by Southwest March 12, 2024

• Released in theaters March 22, 2024

• RT: 71% critics / 59% audience

Synopsis 

A young novitiate arrives at her new home in a remote Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem

Join us next time when we'll review The First Omen, now playing in theaters.

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248 | Stopmotion

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 33min

• Directed by Robert Morgan

• Written by Robert Morgan and Robin King

• Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet and Tom York

• Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 24, 2023

• Available on streaming starting March 15, 2024

• RT: 89% critics / 52% audience

Synopsis 

An animator who works under her overbearing mother starts to come unglued when her mother has a stroke

Here is a selection of other shorts by director Robert Morgan for your enjoyment

Join us next time when we'll review Immaculate, now playing in theaters.

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247 | Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor

• Not Rated 

• Runtime: 1hr 38min

• Written & Directed by Stephen Cognetti

• Stars: Bridget Rose Perrotta, Destiny Leilani Brown and James Liddell

• Limited theatrical release October 24, 2023, premiered on Shudder October 30, 2023

• RT: 87% critics / 82% audience

Synopsis 

Faux documentary about an internet sleuth who, along with her partner and her brother, spends five nights in the notoriously haunted Carmichael Manor, the site of a brutal multiple murder in the late 1980s. Once there they find connections to the equally infamous Abaddon Hotel.

Join us next time when we'll review Stopmotion, available to rent starting March 15, 2024.

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246 | The Others

• Rated PG-13 

• Runtime: 1hr 44min

• Written & Directed by Alejandro Amenábar

• Stars: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Christopher Eccleston

• Premiered August 2, 2001

• RT: 84% critics / 77% audience

Synopsis 

A woman who lives with her photosensitive children in the countryside and waits for her husband to return from WWII becomes convinced that their house is haunted.

Join us next time when we'll review Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, currently available on Shudder and AMC+.

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