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Daniele Campea’s 2024 Mother Nocturna (Madre Notturna) is a technically and atmospherically excellent film that is ultimately undone by its own commitment to ambiance and style over substance. In this psychological horror inspired by The Bacchae, a wolf biologist has just been released from psychiatric care to live with her doctor husband Riccardo and now-grown

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The Legacy of Paul Naschy

As a fan of European horror, I own nearly 30 films starring Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy. They cover his career from his early, lavish monster movies of the 1960s and 1970s to the cheap, direct-to-video exploitation films of the 2000s. Because his movies often reflected the changes he went through in life, it is

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Hello, horror fiends! Dustin here again with another edition of Recent Reads. Well, it’s just Read this time. Your boy’s kind of been in a reading slump. Okay, and a writing slump too. But you know what? It’s nothing a little horror fun can remedy.  Division X by August Hill  I’m always in the mood for

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Corfu, 2002. Janine Pipe and her then-boyfriend sat in a bar whose staff had set up an illegal feed of a football match. Later, they screened an obvious pirate copy of a horror film. Despite the poor quality, Pipe was captivated. As soon as she was able, she tracked down a legitimate copy based on

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