Tag: 2010s
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Invitation (2015)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2025 Is this the first time we’re covering a film that we already covered on the podcast? Yes, but in this case I wasn’t there for Episode 32 which focused on the films of Karyn Kusama, so The Invitation was a new experience for me. And now having watched it,…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Before I Wake (2016)
Being Film #21 for Hooptober 2025 As we roll into the last third of Hooptober 2025 the reviews are once again going to get slimmer. Horror is exhausting, y’all, and man can’t live on blood and gore alone. Thank goodness for Mike Flanagan, who is still batting 1000 after catching up with Before I Wake,…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Untamed (2016)
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2025 We continue a run of beautifully shot films that pack in a load of subtext under a veneer of horror. Although in the case of The Untamed, that horror comes from the action of its primary characters as they wrestle with their sexual appetites and the violence the repression…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Demon (2015)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2025 The full weight of history lies just under the surface of Demon, the stunning final film from Marcin Wrona, who tragically took his own life during the film’s run at the festival circuit. With no jump scares and little in the way of violence or gore, the film manages…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Stree (2018)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2024 What a delight. I wasn’t aware of just how much I needed a breath of air, some light after mainlining one dour note of horror after another over the course of the month. So thank you 1920 for being borderline unwatchable with no english subtitles on any services (both…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Twixt (2011)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2024 What a beautiful, messy, sloppy charmer of a film. ON the one hand, I can see what both the average movie goer – even the casual Coppola fan – would be put off by Twixt, the maestro’s 2011 “return” to horror. I can also see how those fans who…