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Multiple Movies From Shudder Make Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 20 Of 2019 List

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, is dedicated to super-serving fans of horror, thrillers and the supernatural with its unbeatable curated collection of new genre movies and shows. In 2019 the critics have taken notice by lauding two Shudder films as the best of the year, according to popular review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes®. At 100% Certified Fresh™, Shinichiro Ueda’s zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead topped Rotten Tomatoes’® list of the best movies of 2019. While shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew in this inventive spin on the zombie genre find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. At 97% Certified Fresh™, Issa López’s chilling and heartbreaking Tigers Are Not Afraid stands at the top of the list. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, the film follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 17, 2019
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Movie Review: Luz (2018)

Luz Carrara (Luana Velis) comes a-stumblin’ into a German police station, and over the course of an appropriately dark and stormy night we learn that there is something horribly wrong with L-dawg…perhaps Satanically so. Enter: Commissioner Bertillon (Nadja Stübiger) and her translator Olarte (Johannes Benecke) who decide to call in police psychiatrist Doctor Rossini (Jan Bluthardt) to make an attempt at solving the mystery of just why Luz is fucked up six ways to Sunday. Meanwhile more of Luz’s past is revealed by her former classmate Nora Vanderkurt (Julia Riedler), as she talks to none other than Rossini in a local watering hole…and that convo reveals the supernatural gift ol’ Luz is burdened with, some of which has been passed on to Nora who eventually ends up suckin’ face with the good Doc…which would be cool except for that glowing pie-hole and demonic possession bag. Will humanity survive this evil curse? Simply put; Luz is a rock solid throwback to

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DanXIII
Jul 15, 2019
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Fractured Visions Film Festival (2018) Annouces Lineup

The Fractured Visions Film Festival has now announced the official selections for this year’s festival that happens September 29th and 30th in Tramshed Cardiff. Over the past 10 months, the festival “has been privileged to witness some of the finest examples of modern horror from across the world. But after a tough selection process with dozens of stunning submissions, the official selection for the 2018 Fractured Visions Film Festival has been made.” CHILDREN OF THE FALL (Israel) – UK Premiere – Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark past, arrives in Israel during the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don’t take kindly to foreigners, and the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday in the Jewish faith), brings a brutal threat to her and her fellow volunteers. What began as a fun celebration of youth quickly turns into a menacing and bloody

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
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A First Look At The Genre Film ‘Luz’

German writer-director Tilman Singer makes his directorial debut with Luz, a film about a cab driver trying to flee a possessed woman. Today, we have a first look at the film to share with you. Captivatingly shot on 16mm with immersive sound and visuals that call to mind the experimental images of Giallo and 70s Spanish horror atmosphere, the film comes from producers Dario Méndez Acosta and Tilman Singer. With a dark score composed by Simon Waskow, the film stars actress Luana Velis as Luz, Jan Bluthardt, and Julia Riedler co-star. A rainy night. A dazed and numb young cab driver, Luz, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a rundown police station. Across town in a nightspot, Nora seductively engages police psychiatrist Dr. Rossini in a conversation. Nora is possessed by a demonic entity, longing for the woman it loves – Luz. She tells the Doctor about her old schoolmate Luz’s rebellious past at a Chilean school for

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 7, 2018

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Multiple Movies From Shudder Make Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 20 Of 2019 List

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, is dedicated to super-serving fans of horror, thrillers and the supernatural with its unbeatable curated collection of new genre movies and shows. In 2019 the critics have taken notice by lauding two Shudder films as the best of the year, according to popular review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes®. At 100% Certified Fresh™, Shinichiro Ueda’s zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead topped Rotten Tomatoes’® list of the best movies of 2019. While shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew in this inventive spin on the zombie genre find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. At 97% Certified Fresh™, Issa López’s chilling and heartbreaking Tigers Are Not Afraid stands at the top of the list. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, the film follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 17, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Luz (2018)

Luz Carrara (Luana Velis) comes a-stumblin’ into a German police station, and over the course of an appropriately dark and stormy night we learn that there is something horribly wrong with L-dawg…perhaps Satanically so. Enter: Commissioner Bertillon (Nadja Stübiger) and her translator Olarte (Johannes Benecke) who decide to call in police psychiatrist Doctor Rossini (Jan Bluthardt) to make an attempt at solving the mystery of just why Luz is fucked up six ways to Sunday. Meanwhile more of Luz’s past is revealed by her former classmate Nora Vanderkurt (Julia Riedler), as she talks to none other than Rossini in a local watering hole…and that convo reveals the supernatural gift ol’ Luz is burdened with, some of which has been passed on to Nora who eventually ends up suckin’ face with the good Doc…which would be cool except for that glowing pie-hole and demonic possession bag. Will humanity survive this evil curse? Simply put; Luz is a rock solid throwback to

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jul 15, 2019
Horror Fuel

Fractured Visions Film Festival (2018) Annouces Lineup

The Fractured Visions Film Festival has now announced the official selections for this year’s festival that happens September 29th and 30th in Tramshed Cardiff. Over the past 10 months, the festival “has been privileged to witness some of the finest examples of modern horror from across the world. But after a tough selection process with dozens of stunning submissions, the official selection for the 2018 Fractured Visions Film Festival has been made.” CHILDREN OF THE FALL (Israel) – UK Premiere – Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark past, arrives in Israel during the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don’t take kindly to foreigners, and the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday in the Jewish faith), brings a brutal threat to her and her fellow volunteers. What began as a fun celebration of youth quickly turns into a menacing and bloody

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
Horror Fuel

A First Look At The Genre Film ‘Luz’

German writer-director Tilman Singer makes his directorial debut with Luz, a film about a cab driver trying to flee a possessed woman. Today, we have a first look at the film to share with you. Captivatingly shot on 16mm with immersive sound and visuals that call to mind the experimental images of Giallo and 70s Spanish horror atmosphere, the film comes from producers Dario Méndez Acosta and Tilman Singer. With a dark score composed by Simon Waskow, the film stars actress Luana Velis as Luz, Jan Bluthardt, and Julia Riedler co-star. A rainy night. A dazed and numb young cab driver, Luz, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a rundown police station. Across town in a nightspot, Nora seductively engages police psychiatrist Dr. Rossini in a conversation. Nora is possessed by a demonic entity, longing for the woman it loves – Luz. She tells the Doctor about her old schoolmate Luz’s rebellious past at a Chilean school for

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 7, 2018