With The Nun releasing this weekend, America continues its most recent obsession with possession films. And why not? When done well, these types of good versus evil stories can be some of the best in the genre. Just look at The Exorcist. Plus, they’re generally scary as hell, or at least good for a few tosses of your popcorn in the air. Having played yesterday at the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF), Luciferina proves just how effective these films can be, and how differently other cultures perceive the sub-genre…
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Ah, The Purge series. Always filling horror fans with hope. Always letting them down in a painful blaze of mediocrity. There have been four films to date since Blumhouse first released the original back in 2013, with the most recent entry, The First Purge, releasing earlier this year. Most fans have been consistently disappointed, though admittedly, each film has been a little better than the last. But with The Purge TV series premiering on USA, it seems the franchise may have finally found a way to work… A few weeks ago, Fangoria and Cinestate released the much-anticipated Puppet Master reboot…sequel…whatever you want to call it, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. As is often the case, the universe worked in near perfect, bloody serendipity, and Full Moon Comix has graced the horror world with even more puppet mayhem, this time with issue #2 of Dollman Kills the Full Moon Universe, in which Dollman takes on our favorite murderous puppets… WHAT. THE. HELL. DID. I. JUST. WATCH. Sitting down to write this review, my mind is still trying to wrap itself around the ninety-plus minutes of the most trippy, bizarre, brain melting film experience that I’ve had in a little bit. Normally with me, that’s a good thing, because I love me some mind explosion, but for The God Inside My Ear, premiering at the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF), this wasn’t the kind of brain shattering it should be… |
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