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Mar 22, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
Forty years removed from the original classic, the idea of a new Ghostbusters sequel should still elicit some kind of excitement from the movie-going public at large. Granted, after the Statue of Liberty turns down Broadway to the sounds of Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” at the end of Ghostbusters II, maybe it was time to put the franchise back in the ghost trap for a while.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
Greg Jardin’s debut feature It’s What’s Inside operates as a millennial update (or deconstruction) of an Agatha Christie novel. That conceit has good timing, it turns out, hot on the heels of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and the moderate indie success of Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies. The mystery, full of countless double crosses and unhealthy romantic entanglements, unfolds at a whirlwind pace.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
There’s already an air of trepidation surrounding Alex Garland’s battleground thriller Civil War. Should U.S. audiences even take the risk of seeing the mirror of their own seemingly irreconcilable differences reflected back at them on the big screen? After witnessing Garland’s latest in towering IMAX at this year’s SXSW, the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
As of late, every time a new Nicolas Cage film surfaces, meme generators start buzzing and the internet plucks out a viral moment from another explosive performance from the actor’s unique career. There is one hero shot of Cage in director Ben Brewer’s dystopian family film Arcadian, but it’s completely earned.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
Before its world premiere at SXSW, little was known about the new experimental genre offering Azrael from notable horror filmmaker E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills, The Haunting of Bly Manor). By the time the credits rolled, there were still more questions than answers with plenty left to contemplate and decipher. And that’s kind of the point. The wordless script from Simon Barrett (You’re Next, Seance) introduces us into a godless world where language itself has been tossed aside completely.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
In Izzy Lee’s debut novella, I Can See Your Lies, generational trauma runs deep. After helming several horror short films that have all made the rounds at various genre festivals around the country, Lee has crafted a taut and well-paced ghost story about mothers and the secrets they keep. It’s also a lightning-quick page-turner that should resonate with anyone who’s ever been trapped in a toxic relationship or fallen into a seemingly inescapable rut in life.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
Horror fans of a certain age may have never even heard of Phantoms. After all, the mostly ridiculous creature feature is just over a quarter century old at this point. The so-called slacker generation of the 90s probably wouldn’t be aware of it either if it wasn’t for Kevin Smith.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
Restore Point marks the first purely sci-fi feature out of the Czech Republic in nearly 40 years. Judging by the effectiveness of its central mystery and the moody visual splendor on display, hopefully writer/director Robert Hloz’s first full feature will help start a renaissance of sorts from the country that brought us Milos Forman and Jan Svankmajer. The day-to-day technological advancements seen in Restore Point eerily resemble what’s happening to our current world in real-time.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
It’s the start of a brand new year, and Paramount+ wants to ensure you aren’t planning to end your subscription to save a few bucks after the holiday blitz. Having easy access to the Scream and Halloween franchises under the same digital roof may already be reason enough to stay with the streamer. Paramount Global is also rebranding as Paramount+ With Showtime, which will now allow current Paramount+ subscribers to access some original series content, including Yellowjackets.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Drew Tinnin
T.I.M. is the latest entry into a new wave of thrillers using the advent of Artificial Intelligence to serve up a cautionary tale warning against the over-implementation of automation in our everyday lives. The pervasive tech has suddenly created a veritable offspring of films and TV shows over the last year alone. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One features an all-knowing AI known as “the Entity”.
