METAMORPHOSIS *** South Korea 2019 Dir: Hong-seon Kim. 113 mins This cluttered but sometimes creepy, well acted South Korean horror movie has a visceral opening – albeit on very familiar ground – as a handsome young priest fails to save a possessed young woman, complete with old-school throat-inflating bladder FX.…
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In the tradition of STRANGER THINGS and STEPHEN KING’S IT Its 1979, and a 13-year-old science nerd stumbles upon a possessed tape player and accidentally unleashes a demonic entity. She recruits her two best friends to fight the beast before it devours more souls in the small town of Clarkston.…
THEY REACH *** USA 2020 Dir: Sylas Dall. 87 mins A nostalgia-infused feature debut for writer-director Sylas Dall, whose childhood obsession with VHS horror is apparent from the get-go. In a 1969 prologue, a father and son team come to the aid of a seemingly possessed boy for a “scientific…