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fearsmagazine · 4 months
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LORD OF MISRULE - Review
DISTRIBUTOR: Magnet Releasing
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SYNOPSIS: Rebecca Holland, along with her husband, Henry, and their 9-year-old daughter, Grace, has now spent a full year in their new home, the small British village of Berrow, where Rebecca is the vicar of the local church. Berrow’s annual four-day autumn festival approaches, a time when villagers dress up in strange costumes and a masked figure known as the Lord of Misrule leads them in casting out the evil spirit Gallowgog. For this year’s reenactment Grace has been chosen to play the Harvest Angel. As dusk falls, Rebecca loses track of Grace in the throng of villagers in a ceremonial field where bonfires burn. Rebecca searches for her in vain, but Grace has disappeared. A desperate search begins and Rebecca uncovers secrets from the town’s dark past. Soon, she must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to rescue her daughter from the grip of the evil that dwells in Berrow.
REVIEW: The director of “The Devil Inside,” “The Boy,” and “Orphan: First Kill,” comes a haunting folk tale of a secluded community in the British isles that practices a pagan ritual steeped in a horrific truth. The film is an excellent marriage of narrative and visuals to craft a terrifying tale.
I love Tom DeVille’s narrative. He does a superb job of mixing this pagan tale with contemporary themes and adds in a supernatural element with an evil spirit, Gallowgog, to create a horrifying fairy tale that is every parent’s worst nightmare. The Lord of Misrule is a tale that is found in European cultures, with its origin being traced back to the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, that took place from the 17th to 23rd December. In the film, De Ville anchor’s the legend as part of a harvest celebration. He brings in some of the background of how the Catholic Church and the Church of England forced their religion onto the local people and replaced their festivals with Christian ones. Clearly there is a troubled past brewing at the Holland household. Rebecca and Henry are having issues, and when we first meet Grace we get an idea that something is wrong. Is that a result of the darkness that resides in the town or something the family is trying to escape. Rebecca tightly holds onto her beliefs as she is confronted by the town’s grim history; she demonstrates a strength through her logic that leaves the viewer feeling she might survive this encounter. There is just so much here for the sophisticated genre fan to sink their teeth into given everything DeVille weaves into the story.
Filmmaker William Brent Bell, as with several of his previous films but more so here, has an excellent location that permits him the opportunity to create a visually arresting fairy tale nightmare for De Ville’s story to play out in. Add to that excellent productions designs, costume designs, with arresting visual and special effects that make for a hypnotic tale. He does an excellent job of pacing the film as to allow the viewer to feel Rebecca’s becoming disoriented in the horrors that develop without slowing the film down. Brett Detar’s score adds so much to the film. There is a particular moment in the film when the town folks show up with food and start setting up for dinner where the score underpins Rebecca’s mental state and the insanity of everything that is going on around them. Itadds depth to the visuals and enhances the build ups of terror and suspense.
LORD OF MISRULE features an exceptional ensemble cast. There is an aspect to the supporting cast that I found reminiscent of Rosemary Woodhouse’s neighbors in Polanski’s film. I loved actor Ralph Ineson’s performance as Jocelyn Abney. It is grounded more in a character that feels lifted from today’s news feeds like a Brexiteer or Maga Republican. It makes for a new kind of sinister. Evie Templeton does not have much screen time as Grace, but what she delivers is enchanting and horrifying at times. Tuppence Middleton is someone who you’ll know that you’ve seen before, and clearly her performance here demonstrates why she has appeared in so many projects, from episodic shows to big studio features. Her portrayal of Rebecca is an emotional rollercoaster ride that conveys the intense emotional journey of the character as she navigates this cinematic nightmare.
Filmmaker William Brent Bell and screenwriter Tom DeVille, along with a marvelous cast headed by Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson, tell a rich and haunting tale that is as much an epic horror tale as it is social commentary. This spellbinding cinematic tale is a complex visual and narrative experience that feels like it could be based on a bestselling novel from a master of the genre. LORD OF MISRULE is a film worth going to the cinema to experience. Bell and DeVille are an impressive team who I’d welcome an opportunity to take in something they might again unite on.
CAST: Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, Matt Stokoe, Evie Templeton, Rosalind March, Jane Wood, Luc Ineson, & David Langham. CREW: Director - William Brent Bell; Screenplay - Tom DeVille; Producers - Nik Bower, Deepak Nayar, Jason Newmark, Laurie Cook, William Brent Bell, James Tomlinson, &Alison Brister; Cinematographer - Simon Rowling; Score - Brett Detar; Editor - Andrew Leven; Production Designer - Alison Butler; Costume Designer - Libby Irwin; Hair & Make-up Designer - Haelwyn Adams; SFX Supervisior - Sean Harland; Visual Effects - KOALA FX; Character Design & Illustrator - Zsombor Huszka; Special Effects - Matter FX. OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j8MqDwHEPxA?si=6WZFLifU_JUXIGBz RELEASE DATE: In theaters and on VOD December 8th, 2023
**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)
Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri
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moviehealthcommunity · 8 months
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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil has brief use of spinning-style emergency vehicle lights in one brief scene at night, and another one in bright daylight.
Handheld cameras are used frequently. One brief scene shows the point of view of someone swinging upside down.
Flashing Lights: 2/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.
TRIGGER WARNING: This film is excessively bloody and gory. One character commits an act of sexual assault. A misunderstanding leads people to wrongly believe that deaths by suicide are happening.
NOTE: Our evaluation of Haunted Mansion is now available on our Patreon page at Patreon.com/MovieHealth, and will be available on this page on Tuesday, August 1.
Image ID: A promotional poster for Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
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brokehorrorfan · 2 years
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You Are Not My Mother will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 21 via Magnet Releasing. The 2021 Irish psychological horror film is currently available on VOD.
Kate Dolan writes and directs, making her feature debut. Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Ingrid Craigie, and Paul Reid star.
Special features are not listed. Check out the trailer and synopsis below.
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It’s the week before Halloween. Char’s bedridden mother, Angela, has mysteriously gone missing. All that remains is her abandoned car parked in the middle of a field. When Angela returns home to their North Dublin estate the following evening without explanation, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same, but Angela’s behavior has become increasingly erratic and frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. As Halloween approaches, a night steeped in ancient Irish myth and legend, Char must unearth the dark secrets of her family in order to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance and save her, even if it means potentially losing her forever.
Pre-order You Are Not My Mother.
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otakunoculture · 5 months
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To Ask a Nun to “Deliver Us” From Evil in a Movie Requires Questioning Faith.
If you're lucky, the #horror #movie Deliver Us might still be playing, and we got a #moviereview that reminds us a certain doctor from #startrek franchise plays a role!
Magnet Releasing Now Playing in Select Theatres Just how many movies exist about nuns facing off against an ancient evil depends on whether horror fans accept this subgenre can stand on its own. I’m sure film historians are on the fence in accepting what “Nun horror” is about and with more than a dozen films issued to date, I’m none too curious to really want to watch them all. The latest, titled…
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gbhbl · 1 year
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Horror Movie Review: The Innkeepers (2011)
During its last weekend of operations, two employees at the Yankee Pedlar Inn attempt to document the alleged supernatural activity in the building.
The Innkeepers is horror movie that written & directed by Ti West, releasing in 2011. The film follows two employees at the Yankee Pedlar Inn who, during its last weekend of operations, attempt to document the alleged supernatural activity in the building. Claire and Luke are the only employees working at the once grand hotel in its final week of operation. Both are ghost hunting enthusiasts…
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cherrygeek · 1 year
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Piggy Review: Mean girl bullies, murder, and being the weird fat girl
Piggy - Cherry at the Movies Review @piggythemovie_ @MagnoliaPics @MagnetReleasing #PIGGY #TeamPiggy #MagnoliaPics #MagnetReleasing #Horror #MoviewReview #SpoilerFree #NoSpoilers #Suspense #ComingofAge #GirlCentered #SpanishFilm
All the piggies go ‘squee squee’ when the murderer comes to call  Piggy is a visceral stab of horror for me from the opening moment seeing how the sausage is made in more than one way. Carlotta Pereda is the writer/director of the new film that started as a short (that I haven’t seen but want to very much) about how bullying has many shades from mother (Carmen Machi) to ex-‘friend’ and a town…
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horrorpatch · 2 years
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Official Trailer - PIGGY!
Official Trailer – PIGGY!
Today, Magnet Releasing has dropped the official trailer for PIGGY! The film is written and directed by Carlota Pereda and stars Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi. Look for the film to debut in select theaters on October 7th. Get more details below. From The Press Release presents A FILM BY CARLOTA PEREDA OPENING EXCLUSIVELY AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMAS ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 IN…
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commsroom · 3 months
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eiffel is really, really into the idea of birthday sex, but he's got basic taste and doesn't even want to try anything different; hera is happy to indulge him, but she's like. i don't get it. i have sex with you all the time anyway. what makes it birthday sex. and he's like, um. it's my birthday?
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I’ve been browsing through some ~60 cassette tapes my dad recorded back in the day. This was on one of them, recorded from 106.1 BLI radio in what must have been 2001. Yeah this is the cringiest thing I’ve heard in my life but it unfortunately fucking BUMPS too?????????????? This is, and I can not emphasize this enough, BASEBALL TEAM + 9/11 THEMED ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC
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cryptidspaz · 2 months
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behold my full late 90s / early 2000s media set up Bitches. Fuck the shitty quality streaming of shows & movies you can never own & fuck compressed audio through shitty bluetooth speakers.
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fearsmagazine · 1 year
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BABY RUBY - Review
DISTRIBUTOR: Magnet
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SYNOPSIS:  Jo is a successful lifestyle entrepreneur, happily pregnant and awaiting the arrival of her first child. Soon after Jo welcomes baby Ruby home, something starts to feel off-- even though she's assured it's all perfectly normal. Is something wrong with her? Is something wrong with Ruby? Why are seemingly perfect neighborhood moms so desperate to befriend her? As Jo fights to protect herself and her baby, she is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems. At last, she must confront the truth of her own darkness and contend with the ultimate human sacrifice: The one mothers make for their children.
REVIEW: Playwright Bess Wohl makes her feature film debut with a psychological horror film about the darkside of becoming a parent and motherhood. As a parent, I can understand and appreciate much of what she presents as the parent of a child whose mother experienced postpartum depression, but as a male I wasn’t aware of the depths of the terror that a woman can experience.
Wohl’s screenplay is as compelling as it is frightening. Like a Hitchcock film, she takes her main character Jo on a downward spiral into madness that begins with subtle, surreal touches. As Jo questions reality she puts the viewer on unsure footing so that we question what we are witnessing. Jo’s interaction with other characters presents conversations where they reveal dark thoughts about their experiences with parenting and Jo comments on how she feels like she is disappearing. These are thoughts and emotions I am positive people experience and often never get an opportunity to discuss and unburden themselves of. Wohl is skilled at mounting terror and dread like an Edgar Allan Poe tale.
Wohl’s location imparts a sense of isolation, yet she is close enough to the town where there is a group of mothers that feels like a homage to “The Stepford Wives.” There is a sequence where the mothers gather for a night out at the local waterhole that becomes this surreal fever dream that feels like a nod to “Rosemary’s Baby.” When Jo and Ruby come home and trying to find their schedule, Wohl builds this sequence where Jo is trying to quiet Ruby where she artistically presents Jo’s stress levels and her fracturing mental state. Pepper throughout the film is this horrifying sound design of Ruby’s cry. At times she presents that cry every parent knows, a nerve straining, gut wrenching, curdling cry that is so painful. Not only was it painful to hear, it ignited old muscle memories within my psyche. Wohl skillfully frames and edits the film to orchestrate the horror and add hairsplitting atmosphere. I think her theatrical vision and her imagination blossoms with the cinematic tools at her disposal.
While this is an excellent ensemble cast, actress Noémie Merlant is the lynchpin of the film. She provides a vast palette for the viewer to hang their emotions on. Likewise, she crafts a character that allows the viewer to never be secure about the reality of her situation.  I felt her French accent added an additional aspect to the character in terms of her being a stranger and isolated. Kit Harington, John Snow of “Game of Thrones” fame, does a solid job as Spencer, Jo’s husband, creating this rounded performance with moments that leave the viewer questioning his intentions. Likewise, actress Jayne Atkinson delivers this compelling and chilling performance as Spencer’s mother. She needs to take it to some dark places as the subject of Jo’s delusions.
Bess Wohl’s BABY RUBY is an outstanding feature directorial debut. It is a deeply disturbing film that is a complex character study brought to life with excellent performances and artistic production choices, including a terrifying sound design. Given what is up on the screen, the screenplay is worthy of a few writing awards and would probably make for an outstanding novelization. Wohl makes fascinating choices as she weaves an intense, shocking, emotional tale. It is sure to dredge up old emotions of parents, send expecting parents screaming up the aisle, and frighten young couples from becoming ones. At least it will spurn some interesting conversations. A couple of times in the film Wohl brings up the mother consuming her placenta. For me, that was the icing on the cake. I can remember some woman from the old country telling my pregnant wife at the time to make sure she got her placenta so she could consume it. Yes, it’s a thing! I wonder if it goes well with fava beans and chianti?
CAST: Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Meredith Hagner, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Jayne Atkinson. CREW: Director/Screenplay - Bess Wohl; Producers - Brett Beveridge, Lauren Beveridge, Jeffrey Penman & Alex Saks; Cinematographer - Juan Pablo Ramírez; Score - Erik Friedlander; Editors - JC Bond, Arielle Sherman & Jin Lee; Production Designer - Dahlia Galler; Costume Designer - Tilly Grimes; Prosthetic Makeup Designer - Ben Bornstein; Visual Effects Artist - Chris Wells. OFFICIAL: www.magnetreleasing.com/babyruby/ FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/babyrubymovie TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/b34goCcuKdk RELEASE DATE: In theaters and on demand February 3, 2023
**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay),  or 👎 (Dislike)
Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri
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darksouls2yuri · 6 months
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i went on a hunt for that little blue cat bc i havent seen it before. very interesting.
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all-naruto-polls · 9 months
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Favorite Kekkei Genkai (excluding dojutsu)?
Mokuton (Wood Release)
Hyoton (Ice Release)
Shikotsumyaku (Dead Bone Pulse)
Juugo's clan's Kekkei Genkai
Bakuton (Explosion Release)
Yoton (Lava Release)
Futton (Boil Release)
Jiton (Magnet Release)
Ranton (Storm Release)
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niishi · 8 months
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maintenance better be over soon I am shaking in my boots.... I only have enough for 1 MAYBE 2 scouts ATM but I'll have more later once I get paid 😎 hell yeah baby everyone use all the magic in your body to help me get Hinata Norton....
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gbhbl · 2 years
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Horror Movie Review: I Saw the Devil (2010)
A secret agent embarks on a quest for revenge when his fiancée is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer.
I Saw the Devil is a South Korean horror/thriller directed Kim Jee-woon, releasing in 2010. The film follows secret agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee), who embarks on a quest of revenge when his fiancée is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer. A woman named Jang Joo-yun is stranded in a snow storm after her car breaks down. Whilst awaiting a tow truck, an unsuspecting stranger approaches her…
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mikurulucky · 7 months
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Up until I went traipsing around youtube for random logo vids in middle school/early high school, I didn't know just HOW LONG good ol F.H.E. was in business. I had two christmas special tapes back then that were released around the late 80s and another one from the early 90s, so my kid self only saw the yellow 80s variant and the 90s paintbrush one.
Yeah, you can tell this was made on a real low budget like a LOT of vhs company logos in the early 80s. It's sometimes called the soda pop variant and for good reason imo. The big computer generated ball of light makes me think of fizzy pop and the popping bleeps and bloops sound almost exactly like the sound a glass of ginger ale would make immediately after pouring it, only with the audio increased by a lot.
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