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ABRUPTIO **** USA 2023 Dir: Evan Marlowe. 109 mins Refreshing takes on similar tropes that have been done to undeath are quite rare. The horror genre is seeing this in some film work such as Piggy (2022) or dare I suggest Pearl (2022) and Barbarian (2022). Evan Marlowe’s labour of…

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HellBent Pictures is excited to announce the long anticipated screening of Evan Marlowe’s life-sized puppet horror Abruptio at Cinejoy, the virtual version of Silicon Valley’s Cinequest. Comedy, mystery, blood, A-List voices, action, and puppets combine in the first-of-its-kind surrealistic horror/thriller. Abruptio features the voice talents of James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Hana Mae Lee…

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CANDYMAN **** USA 2021 Dir: Nia DaCosta. 91 mins In two lazy sequels to Bernard Rose’s iconic 1992 CANDYMAN, Tony Todd’s extraordinary presence was wasted, the concept cheapened by lame jump scares in FAREWELL TO THE FLESH and taken into slapdash slasher territory for DAY OF THE DEAD. Todd and…

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Oscar®️ winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods, upcoming Captain Marvel 2) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic. For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost…

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