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Woman of the (American) dunes: Barnaby Clay’s feature debut THE SEEDING "cruelly allegorises humanity’s place in a ritualised Darwinian cycle that is also a Teshigaharan trap". Screens 4pm today at #BeyondFest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-seeding-review-sowing-seeds-that-will-take-root-in-your-mind/
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"exposing a globalised economy where only the 1% get to dine out on the strivings and sufferings of everyone else": Nicholas Tomnay's taut culinary thriller WHAT YOU WISH FOR (2023) screens 8.10pm tonight at #Grimmfest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/what-you-wish-for-review-a-generous-serving-of-social-allegory-fantasia/
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"Seventies-set school invasion horror lets Manson-esque cultists and abandoned pupils raise some hell together": Jenn Wexler's THE SACRIFICE GAME screens 6pm today at #Grimmfest. Full review at #SciFiNow. https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-sacrifice-game-review-at-fantasia-a-whole-world-of-diabolical-desire/
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Daniel's denial, nailed: in Quarxx’s “dark and grotesque (divine) comedy” PANDEMONIUM (2023), the reality of Hell must be accepted. Screens 2pm today at #Grimmfest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/pandemonium-review-at-fantasia-a-dark-and-grotesque-divine-comedy/
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"lovingly batshit resurrection of Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraftian spirit": Joe Lynch's SUITABLE FLESH "finds sensational new forms to keep the old ones alive". Screens today, 6pm at Grimmfest & 7pm at #BeyondFest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/suitable-flesh-review-a-lovingly-batsht-resurrection-of-stuart-gordons-lovecraftian-spirit
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“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes’ HOSTILE DIMENSIONS screens 7pm tonight at #BeyondFest. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/
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"an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity": Bishal Dutta's horror hybrid IT LIVES INSIDE screens half past midnight at #MOTELX. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/it-lives-inside-review-at-fantasia-cross-cultural-identity-assimilation-and-absorption/
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Brandon Fink: screening 9.30pm today at #MOTELX, Brandon Cronenberg’s resort-set third feature INFINITY POOL (2023) "dives deep into a blocked writer’s fantasies and fears."
Full review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/infinity-pool-review-well-worth-the-deep-dive/ -
In Paris Zarcilla's modern gothic feature debut RAGING GRACE (2023), "a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses": screens 2pm today at #MOTELX. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/raging-grace-review-at-fantasia-2023-creepy-portrait-of-family-and-class-divides/
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In Paris Zarcilla's modern gothic feature debut RAGING GRACE (2023), "a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses": screens midnight at #MOTELX. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/raging-grace-review-at-fantasia-2023-creepy-portrait-of-family-and-class-divides/
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“found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world”: Graham Hughes’ HOSTILE DIMENSIONS screes 4.45pm today at #MOTELX. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hostile-dimensions-review-at-frightfest-scary-funny-sci-fi-on-a-budget/
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Handheld horror: Dany and Michael Philippou's TALK TO ME (2022) "mediates adolescent angst and alienation through a terrifying rite of passage." Essential horror, on #BFIPlayer from today. Full review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/talk-to-me-review-one-hell-of-a-strong-calling-card/
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The Sea Girl is a 1930 lost world novel by Ray Cummings dealing with a lost world in the deeps of the ocean. As a bonus, there are mermaids. Of a sort. There's also a beautiful but evil undersea empress and atomic submarines. A fine adventure.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/ray-cummings-sea-girl.html
#lostworld #lostworlds #lostcivilisations #RayCummings #mermaids #pulpfiction #scifi #scifinovel #scifinovels #sciencefiction
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"A tour de force of minimalist filmmaking": Indianna Bell & Josiah Allen’s confident, claustrophobic YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME "traps two suspicious strangers in a trailer during a torrential storm at night". Screens 10.30pm tonight at #MelbourneInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/youll-never-find-me-review-a-tour-de-force-of-minimalist-filmmaking/
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Strangers in a trailer: Indianna Bell & Josiah Allen’s confident, claustrophobic YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME (one of my favourite genre films of 2023) screens 9pm tonight at #MelbourneInternationalFilmFestival, with a directors' Q&A moderated by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/youll-never-find-me-review-a-tour-de-force-of-minimalist-filmmaking/ -
"the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive": John Rosman's genre-inf(l)ected chase movie NEW LIFE had its world première last night at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival, screens again 2.30pm today. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/new-life-review-at-fantasia-a-tense-breathless-chase-movie
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"an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity": Bishal Dutta's horror hybrid IT LIVES INSIDE , Quebec première at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/it-lives-inside-review-at-fantasia-cross-cultural-identity-assimilation-and-absorption/
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Daniel's denial nailed: Quarxx’s “dark and grotesque (divine) comedy” PANDEMONIUM screens again, 4.30pm this afternoon at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival . Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/exclusive/pandemonium-review-at-fantasia-a-dark-and-grotesque-divine-comedy/
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"In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future": RIVER (2023) had its North American première at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Full review for #SciFiNow
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Nerding out over calendars might not be the most adventurous of plots...but when it's a spacefaring far future's castle evoking where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, you just know it's going to be a fun time.
#calendars #timekeeping #spaceopera #scifi #sciencefiction #story #novella #sciencefictionstory #sciencefictionnovella #scifinovella #scifistory
Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FH5W85Q/
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“a low-budget horror film set is cursed by a real carnivorous creature”: Dominic Brunt's comic meta monster movie SCREAM OF THE WOLF (aka WOLF MANOR, 2022) is on US VOD/DVD from today via #UncorkdEntertainment. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/wolf-manor-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a claustrophobic kidnapping thriller set in an abstract, allegorical prison-house of patriarchy”: Corey Deshon’s superlative, surreal 'family picture' DAUGHTER (2022) on DVD from today in US via #DarkStarPictures. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/daughter-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a group of traumatised, socially-distanced survivors must face the end”: Scott Lyus's "melancholic mid-apocalyptic monster movie" WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN (2022), screens 6pm this evening at #ExtraSciFiFestivalVerona. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/walking-against-the-rain-2022-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a group of traumatised, socially-distanced survivors must face the end”: Scott Lyus's "melancholic mid-apocalyptic monster movie" WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN (2022), screens 6pm this evening at #ExtraSciFiFestivalVerona. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/walking-against-the-rain-2022-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a group of traumatised, socially-distanced survivors must face the end”: Scott Lyus's "melancholic mid-apocalyptic monster movie" WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN (2022), screens 6pm this evening at #ExtraSciFiFestivalVerona. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/walking-against-the-rain-2022-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a group of traumatised, socially-distanced survivors must face the end”: Scott Lyus's "melancholic mid-apocalyptic monster movie" WALKING AGAINST THE RAIN (2022), screens 6pm this evening at #ExtraSciFiFestivalVerona. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/walking-against-the-rain-2022-review-frightfest-2022/
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“a claustrophobic kidnapping thriller set in an abstract, allegorical prison-house of patriarchy”:
Corey Deshon’s superlative, surreal 'family picture' DAUGHTER (2022) is now on demand/download in🇦🇺🇳🇿 via #LightbulbFilms. Review for #SciFiNow #Horror #Abduction #Family #Cult https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/daughter-review-frightfest-2022/ -
“a claustrophobic kidnapping thriller set in an abstract, allegorical prison-house of patriarchy”: Corey Deshon’s superlative, surreal 'family picture' DAUGHTER, starring Casper Van Dien & Vivien Ngô, is now on VOD 🇬🇧🇮🇪 via #LightbulbFilms. Review for #SciFiNow
#Horror #Family #Patriarchy #Abduction https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/daughter-review-frightfest-2022/ -
“a claustrophobic kidnapping thriller set in an abstract, allegorical prison-house of patriarchy”
Corey Deshon’s superlative, surreal 'family picture' DAUGHTER (2022), starring Casper Van Dien and Vivien Ngô, is now in US cinemas and on VOD vis #DarkStarPictures. Review for #SciFiNow
#Abduction #Family #Horror #Survival https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/daughter-review-frightfest-2022/ -
"a singing, dancing entertainment system": Gerard Johnstone’s cyber-sci-fi horror #M3GAN (2023) choreographs domestic dysfunction and emotional surrogacy. In UK cinemas from today. Review for #SciFiNow
#Horror #Gynoid #Doll
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/cinema/m3gan-review-wildly-choreographed-ride-through-domestic-disorder/