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Unsatisfying, dead-end marriages have been explored and beaten with a switch within contemporary Americana film— married couples reach middle age, resent each other, die miserably,
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Familiarity can be a help or a hindrance to genre films— the audience can either feel comforted or bored by tropes and narratives they’ve seen
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You mention 1) a metal-horror movie (with rarely seen female protagonists!) 2) a Satanic Panic backdrop, and 3) set in the ’80s. Say no more.
![[Nightmarish Detour Review] COME AS YOU ARE](https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/zWhSuUOQ-scaled.jpg)
A humanizing, buddy road trip/sex comedy that is never gross-out or vile like many of its predecessors from the past, Richard Wong’s COME AS YOU
![[Movie Review] COVENANT](https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/07b4lcGQ-e1581007346662.jpg)
A man travels to an abandoned cabin in the woods after his late mother— who had an association with a cult— dies mysteriously and unexpectedly…a
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DANIEL ISN’T REAL, arguably one of the most colorful (in more ways than one) horror films to descend its way onto 2019, will finally be
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There’s a reason why we keep coming back to the “Something’s not right with that kid” subgenre of horror movies: there are few things that
![[Immersive Experience] DARK PASSAGE](https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/unnamed-18.jpg)
My hometown area of Philadelphia welcomed brand new Halloween haunt/pop-up bar DARK PASSAGE to the scene this fall, and the marketing is correct…it is definitely
![[Brooklyn Horror Interview] Director Adam Egypt Mortimer & Co-Writer Brian DeLeeuw for DANIEL ISN’T REAL (Part 1)](https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/bOZyWqCw.jpg)
Recently, we (along with our friends in What’s Your favorite Scary Movie (WYFSM) podcast) had the chance to speak with DANIEL ISN’T REAL director Adam
I’m the kind of critic who blindly scrambles adjectives down in a notebook during every film I’m reviewing during screenings— I jot down quick descriptors