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IR Film Review: KANDISHA [Shudder]
With "Kandisha" it is a mix of many different elements both with textures of Islam but also mythology. In a modern context it is intriguing because this mythology in general talks about a female almost centaur coming to take the lives of the men because of their transgressions.
IR Film Review: ESCAPE ROOM - TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS [Sony]
The key here in "Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions" is that those who survived previous escape rooms are drawn back together to satisfy another adrenaline junkie approach, not for their own benefit but for the unknown magnates perhaps betting on their suffering
IR Film Review: THE CALL [Shudder]
Chester Rushing plays the other lead Chris and, while he is supposed to be the fresh eyes, his texture of guilt, while prominent, isn't taken to its full possibility either [but Sanders would have been the real breakout]. "The Call" had potential but simply delivered on its base line, which is not a criticism but a fact.
IR Film Review: THE 8TH NIGHT [Netflix]
The perspective of "The 8th Night" uses the element of the "seeing eye" as an ancient curse but one where two sides of the same coin were separated by thousands of miles and millennia to prevent them from coming together again.
IR Film Review: CAVEAT [Shudder]
The crux of "Caveat" is based in the structure that everything needs not to have an exact reason. The film itself may be an exploration of the consequential cause and effect but the way it is built in the perception of the characters is both understandable in mood but also ethereally unconnected.
IR Film Review: THE DJINN [IFC Midnight]
In "The Djinn", this aspect is given a darker turn with metaphors that abound. But what the film really creates is a haunted house movie in the middle of urban sprawl.
IR Film Review: FRIED BARRY [Shudder]
Director Ryan Kruger who seems to have financed and done a lot of the film on his own, overdoes some of the clichés but doesn't pull back on the body horror or general visceral nature of the proceeding which is admirable.
IR Film Review: THE POOL [Shudder]
The simplicity of a film is sometimes a hard aspect to accomplish. While some of the circumstances in "The Pool" are a bit exaggerated, its end result is not.
IR Film Review: LAKE OF DEATH [Shudder]
"Lake Of Death" reflects these ideas in a persistent veil of childhood trauma which is not necessarily balanced within the story. As with some horror movies, it uses the concept of a location, usually far removed from the normal vein of living to act as a surrogate vision for these troubling issues that bubble to the surface and explode in a vein of action.