Vidya Palepu, Author at Nightmarish Conjurings

[Movie Review] GOOD BOY

The Venn diagram of horror enthusiasts and kink enthusiasts may as well be a circle. Both horror and kink boil down to what is essentially

[Movie Review] ORGAN TRAIL

One would expect a Western slasher called ORGAN TRAIL to serve a healthy dose of camp, perhaps zombie-related camp, alongside the customary blood and guts.

[Movie Review] HOLY SHIT!

Editor’s Note: This review of Holy Shit! contains some spoilers Ah, the portapotty, a corporeal nightmare of the modern world. What is more viscerally horrific

[Movie Review] A WOMAN KILLS (1968)

Fans of the French new wave, rejoice: a long-lost artifact from one of the most radical eras of film history has been resurrected after forty-five

[Article] AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Exploring Parenthood in Pandora

Nightmarish Conjurings had the opportunity to attend a global press conference for the long-awaited sequel of Avatar (2009), titled AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. Accompanying

[Movie Review] SEWER GATORS

Recently, I watched A24’s porno-slasher X in theaters and thoroughly enjoyed a scare involving a Texan swamp gator. I was struck by the incredible cinematic

[Movie Review] THE LONG WALK

In THE LONG WALK, the third feature film from Oscar-nominated Lao filmmaker Mattie Do, an old man maintains a seamless poker face when cops come

[Movie Review] SHAPELESS

It’s rare to grow up a girl in the United States and not know at least one person with an eating disorder. When confronted with

[Interview] Marika Sila for DITCHED

Desperate to escape an overturned ambulance, a group of paramedics are trapped with violent prisoners. The group quickly discover that they are the victims of

[Movie Review] DITCHED

In Christopher Donaldson’s directorial debut horror DITCHED, a young paramedic named Melina wakes up from a car crash during a routine prison transfer. With her

Author: Vidya Palepu