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When the fever escapes the cabin

I love Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever. Aside from playing on our fears of getting a flesh-eating disease, it also makes the threat—the monster—our own friends. It shows how quickly we would turn on each other to protect ourselves. It shows … Continue reading

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Burnt Offerings: a new era of the slow burner horror film?

Having almost 40 years of experience watching horror films (I’m 41 and have been watching some form of horror films since I was like 5) I grew up on what are now considered ‘slow burners’: horror films that have about … Continue reading

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“Direct” to DVD—the horror of director Ti West

A couple of years ago, I caught this movie called The Roost on cable, and it really struck a chord with me. It was a 2005 film, but it looked and felt like something out of the late 70s or … Continue reading

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