Like Faust selling his soul to the devil, so does the Elisabeth Sparkle of The Substance. Director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat proposes a story that explores the condemnation of growing old in the entertainment industry. At Cannes, Fargeat won the award for Best Screenplay, and from that moment on, great expectations began for its release in commercial theaters.
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A curious girl and a macabre character are the elements with which Longlegs (2024) hooks the audience. After that opening sequence, director Oz Perkins takes us on a 1 hour and 40-minute journey of pure tension and psychological terror. This is Perkins’ fifth film as a director who has followed the horror line in all his works. On this occasion, the filmmaker delves into the genre of police investigation and serial killers to explore terror from the perspective of thriller and appeal more to the effect of suspense.
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At the end of the 70s and much of the 80s, the slasher subgenre had its greatest splendor. In a Violent Nature (2024) looks with a certain air of nostalgia at those horror films that became pillars of the genre, that inspired franchises, and that have even become cult objects. Specifically, I am referring to films of the subgenre that usually have a murderer attacking a group of young people and eliminating them one by one using some sharp object. Hence the use of the word slash to refer to this type of film.
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The Cairnes brothers’ Australian horror film, Late Night With The Devil (2023) began its festival circuit early in 2023 and took the best screenplay award at the Sitges festival. This Australian production is the third feature film by the pair of brothers who also created the script and worked on the editing. From the hand of IFC Films, the film hit theaters in a limited way in March 2024 and in its first three days in theaters in the United States it raised 2.8 million dollars to become the best premiere for IFC. It exceeded 12 million dollars worldwide, a more than respectable figure for an independent film.
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Beau Is Afraid is the third film from director Ari Aster. Since his debut in 2018 with the film Hereditary, his name began to trend in the industry. Aster has managed to imbue his narrative with a very particular style that has established him as a reference in horror cinema. A short but shocking and disturbing filmography is what has come out of the mind of the New York filmmaker. From the conception of the script to the staging to take it to the big screen, Aster leaves his mark in every step of the process.
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