Emily Gagne

Oct 23, 2024 | hollywoodsuite.ca | Emily Gagne

Emily’s Choose Your Own Halloween Adventure: Part II By Whether you’re a film lover or a filmmaker, sequels can be a risky proposition. But sometimes, when the timing is just right, lightning can strike twice. At least that’s what I’m trying to tell myself after asking to come back for another round of Shocktober Staff Picks.

Oct 7, 2024 | dreadcentral.com | Emily Gagne

Some movies seek to actively disturb audiences through jump scares and gore, which can be upsetting to witness in the moment but not on reflection. Others, however, are about long-term disruption, poisoning your consciousness like black mold with their rancid subject matter and mood. The Girl with the Needle, which recently screened at Beyond Fest, is a perfect example of the latter breed of storytelling. At first, The Girl with the Needle might seem like another WWII drama.

Sep 16, 2024 | dreadcentral.com | Emily Gagne

Body horror movies are hot right now, and with good reason. Between Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, it feels like we are in a new golden age of the sickening subgenre, this time with women, trans folks, and non-binary babes at the helm. This fact is one of the many reasons why Max Minghella’s Shell, which had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, feels so behind the times.

Sep 12, 2024 | dreadcentral.com | Emily Gagne

We often romanticize losing yourself in love, but at what cost? This is the question at hand in Thibault Emin’s Else, a thought-provoking France-Belgium co-production that recently premiered as part of the infamous Midnight Madness lineup at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Part love story, part existential horror exercise, Else is, for lack of a better phrase, not for the faint of heart.

Sep 7, 2024 | dreadcentral.com | Emily Gagne

Where do we go when we die? Many horror movies have tackled this question head-on, often circling around the philosophically comforting idea that there is some semblance of life after death, whether delightfully ghoulish or downright depressing. But what if there was still work to do after death? And what’s more, what if you are really bad it (or so you think)?