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1 week ago |
zekefilm.org | Paul Hibbard
Below is a smattering of capsule reviews of some of the finest short films that played 2025 Salem Horror Fest. The horror movie Festival ran from April 30 to May 4, 2025. Bloody Mary is a clever twist on an old curse, mixing in the familiar horror setup with a fresh conflict: you have to say the right words to end the Bloody Mary curse, but saying them wrong only makes things worse.
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3 weeks ago |
zekefilm.org | Paul Hibbard
Below is a smattering of capsule reviews of select films playing at the 2025 Salem Horror Fest. The horror movie Festival runs from April 30 to May 4, 2025. So Fades the Light is a haunting meditation on the trauma that religion can inflict — not only on the individual, but on the broader national psyche. It conjures echoes of real-world tragedies like Waco, capturing both the micro and macro dimensions of faith distorted into fanaticism.
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3 weeks ago |
zekefilm.org | Paul Hibbard
DIRECTED BY KAYE ADELAIDE/2025The Rebrand is a horror-comedy — but unlike most horror-comedies, it’s actually funny. And maybe even more impressively, it’s genuinely disturbing. Where a lot of films in this genre lean on scattered bursts of horror, usually in the form of cheap jump scares, The Rebrand manages something trickier: it taps into a real sense of demented, haunted unease.
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3 weeks ago |
zekefilm.org | Paul Hibbard
DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG/2025There’s something about David Cronenberg’s films that has always struck me as a paradox. They are icy, clinical, cerebral — and yet, paradoxically, they offer a kind of strange warmth, like the comfort of a familiar, well-worn blanket. Part of that resonance comes from the way Cronenberg dismantles the traditional artifice of filmmaking.
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2 months ago |
zekefilm.org | Paul Hibbard
The organization SHORTS (home of ShortsTV) has brought this year’s batch of 2025’s Oscar nominated Live Action, Documentary, and Animated Short Films to movie theaters. Check your local listings to see if and when the Showcases will be playing. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: https://shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/. All five nominees for Best Animated Short Film are reviewed here by Paul Hibbard.
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