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[SXSW 2024]: ‘ODDITY’: A MASTERFULLY TENSE HAUNTED RETURN FOR DAMIAN MC CARTHY
Hyperbole can be difficult to avoid when writing movie reviews, especially during the rush and excitement of a film festival, so it’s important to stay grounded and keep a sense of perspective. Not everything is a masterpiece. Unless you only watched one movie, every film can’t be the best…
[SXSW 2024]: ‘FAMILY’: A HAUNTING EXAMINATION OF ILLNESS AND TRAUMA
Inspired by the childhood trauma of his father’s cancer, director Benjamin Finkel spent half his life channeling his real-life horror experience to make the movie FAMILY. Making its world premiere at SXSW, this film follows the young Joanna (Lucinda Lee Dawson Gray) as she struggles to make sense of…
[IN THEATERS NOW!] IMAGINARY (2024)
In 2010, reigning horror maven Jason Blum was still a fledgling producer in the genre. While his microbudget approach certainly made some waves with the massive success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY the previous year, his presence in the genre realm wasn’t firmly entrenched until he ushered James Wan’s INSIDIOUS onto…
[SXSW 2024]: ‘I LOVE YOU FOREVER’: A TENSE EXAMINATION OF THE MANIPULATIVE MODERN DATING SCENE
Manipulation. Gaslighting. Love-bombing. Isolation. All of these terms exist in the popular vernacular as buzzwords to describe toxic relationships. As observers, we can easily see when romance and love lead to abuse, but when experiencing the situation firsthand, the target of the gaslighting might not realize the actual extent…
[SXSW 2024] ‘DICKWEED’: A DOCUMENTARY IN UNEXPECTED FORM
A man is abducted from his home, dragged into the desert, and tortured, culminating in his captors severing his penis and dousing him in bleach. It’s quite the hook, and the stylish documentary feature DICKWEED, directed by Jonathan Ignatius Green, throws its audience right into the heart of the…
[VOTE!] THE 2024 DAILY GRINDHOUSE BIZARRO OSCARS
Every year (sort of), Daily Grindhouse’s Bizarro Oscars have been our way of celebrating less conventional aspects of popular films, and even better, to spotlight those films we love that most definitely won’t be recognized at the “real” Academy Awards on Sunday night. Here, genre films of every kind…
SXSW 2024 KICKS OFF THIS FRIDAY!
Annual pop culture juggernaut SXSW kicks off this Friday, running from March 8 through 16 in Austin, Texas. Daily Grindhouse will be running reviews and interviews out of the Film & TV Festival, bringing you coverage of highly anticipated genre releases. SXSW offers high-profile headliners alongside smaller films…
‘LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP’: An Atmospheric, Original Eco-Horror that Twists Reality
Opening with a quote by John Muir, the patron saint of the American wilderness, LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP firmly plants the viewer in the world of this environmental, eco-terror. The forest is our setting, but it’s also one of our main characters, angry over the injustices it has experienced and…
THE BEEKEEPER (2024): Jason Statham’s Newest Grisly Pulp Thriller is Bloody Good Fun
The first thing you need to know about THE BEEKEEPER is that, yes, Jason Statham is playing an honest-to-god, badass beekeeper. His name is Adam Clay, and we don’t learn much about him other than his obsession with his insect hive and his quaint, unexpected relationship with Eloise (Phylicia…
[SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024!] ‘GOOD ONE’ IS A SUBTLY TENSE EXAMINATION OF FAMILY DYNAMICS
What does it mean to be “good”? Who makes the choice that determines the standard? If you break from it to preserve yourself, does that automatically make you “bad”? These are all common questions for adolescence, but most especially they are a matter of constant reckoning for teenage girls and…