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Abigail (2024)
The earliest press releases for the Universal Pictures horror Abigail reported it as a reimagining of the 1936 classic Dracula’s Daughter, citing Leigh Whannell’s 2020 remake of The Invisible Man and last year’s Nic-Cage-as-Dracula comedy Renfield as similar examples of what the studio is currently doing with its Classic Monsters brand. Technically, Abigail does feature a vampire’s daughter in…
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#abigail#alisha weir#angus cloud#ballet#brandon ledet#dan stevens#dracula&039;s daughter#horror#horror comedy#kathryn newton#melissa barrera#radio silence#reviews#universal pictures#vampires
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The People's Joker (2024)
The People’s Joker made me cry.
A festival darling a couple of years ago, this DIY transfemme autofiction bildungsroman took an usually long time to reach general audiences, seeing as it was stuck in legal limbo for a while. You see, Vera Drew chose to tell the story of her life—from her earliest realizations that her body didn’t match her concept of herself, to her first real romance and how…
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#batman#comedy#dc comics#joker#mark boomer redmond#reviews#superheroes#the people&039;s joker#trans#vera drew
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The Not-So-New 52: Superman — Unbound (2013)
Welcome to The Not-So-New 52, your digital Swampflix comic book (adaptation) newsstand! Starting in 2007, DC Comics and Warner Premiere entered the direct-to-home-video market with animated features, mostly in the form of adaptations of well-received event comics or notable arcs. This Swampflix feature takes its name from the 2011 DC relaunch event “The New 52,” and since there are (roughly)…
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#animation#dc comics#Lists & Articles#mark boomer redmond#matt bomer#molly quinn#not so new 52#superheroes#superman#superman unbound
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Family Portrait (2024)
Boredom is a funny thing. I recently attended a screening of Family Portrait, a domestic drama that runs just under eighty minutes. In truth, I call it a “drama” because I’m not really sure what else it could be, even though the word drama implies a level of action that’s not really present here. I don’t want to come down too hard on this film, as it was made by a local filmmaker and shot in the…
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#Chris Galust#covid19#Deragh Campbell#drama#family#family portrait#lucy kerr#mark boomer redmond#nature#reviews
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Psychic Damage at The Overlook Film Festival
The term “horror” can apply to such a wide range of narrative, thematic, and aesthetic traditions that it’s almost too wide of an umbrella to be considered a single genre. I’m always especially impressed with The Overlook Film Festival’s interpretation of what qualifies as horror in its programming, which makes room for films as disparate in tone & intent as a when-spiders-attack creature…
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#brandon ledet#film festival#ghosts#horror#Jason Yu#Jung Yu-mi#Lana Wilson#Lee Sun-kyun#Lists & Articles#look into my eyes#oddity#overlook film fest#overlook film festival#psychics#sleep#the overlook film festival
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Les horreurs d’Overlook
One thing I’m always searching for at New Orleans French Film Fest every year is French-language horror films: the kinds of artsy genre titles that premiere in the Midnight or Un Certain Regard programs at Cannes and then quietly seep onto streaming platforms like Mubi & Kanopy years later with no wide theatrical distro. This year’s French Film Fest lineup delivered the familial sorcery drama…
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#brandon ledet#film festival#french film fest#Golshifteh Farahani#hood witch#horror#infested#Lists & Articles#overlook film fest#overlook film festival#red rooms#the overlook film festival
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Lagniappe Podcast: All About Eve (1950)
For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the Old Hollywood classic All About Eve (1950), starring Bette Davis.
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04:20 We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2022)11:58 Deerskin (2020)17:38 Problemista (2024)28:34 Nimona (2023)32:26 Family Portrait (2024)37:15 Aliens (1986)41:00 The Birds (1963)47:10 King Kong vs. Godzilla…
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#all about eve#alli hobbs#brandon ledet#drama#lagniappe podcast#Lists & Articles#mark boomer redmond#old hollywood#Podcast
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
I saw I Saw the TV Glow at this year’s Overlook Film Festival, a five-day horror marathon that’s held in New Orleans every Spring. In an attempt to put my festival pass to full use, I crammed my schedule with new releases, spending noon to midnight at a downtown shopping mall for a four-day stretch of the fest. I skipped sleep, meals, and parties so I could disappear into The Movies, only…
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#brandon ledet#brigette lundy-paine#fred durst#horror#i saw the tv glow#jane schoenbrun#justice smith#reviews#television#trans
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Problemista (2024)
I’ve been a fan of Julio Torres’s for years, ever since a friend introduced me to the joys of Patti Harrison and I got into that whole crew. Los Espookys was a lot of fun, and I was excited to hear about his directorial debut when it originally premiered at SXSW last year, in 2023. It took some time for it to make it to my local theater, but I was excited to see that not only did it hit the…
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#comedy#fantasy#greta lee#immigration#isabella rossellini#james scully#julio torres#kelly mccormack#larry owens#mark boomer redmond#problemista#reviews#rza#tilda swinton
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The Not-So-New 52: The Dark Knight Returns (2012, 2013)
Welcome to The Not-So-New 52, your digital Swampflix comic book (adaptation) newsstand! Starting in 2007, DC Comics and Warner Premiere entered the direct-to-home-video market with animated features, mostly in the form of adaptations of well-received event comics or notable arcs. This Swampflix feature takes its name from the 2011 DC relaunch event “The New 52,” and since there are (roughly)…
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#animation#ariel winter#batman#dc comics#frank miller#Lists & Articles#mark boomer redmond#not so new 52#superheroes#the dark knight returns
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Azrael (2024)
Do you think becoming known as a scream queen is a blessing or a curse? Both? Australian actress Samara Weaving is only a household name among horror nerds, but she’s been a must-see performer for that tattoos-and-black-t-shirts contingent since she starred in Ready or Not & The Babysitter a half-decade ago. Watching her latest star vehicle Azrael at Overlook Film Festival this weekend, I…
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#azrael#brandon ledet#cults#el katz#horror#overlook film fest#overlook film festival#post-apocalypse#reviews#samara weaving#simon barrett#the overlook film festival#the rapture
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Arcadian (2024)
Like most hopeless, depraved movie nerds, I’ll watch pretty much anything with Nicolas Cage in it, since he’s a reliably entertaining performer no mattery the quality of the project signing that week’s paycheck. That means I’ve seen a lot of mediocre DTV action movies over the years, often ones where Cage’s prominence on the poster is outright dishonest about his prominence in the picture…
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#action horror#apocalypse#arcadian#benjamin brewer#brandon ledet#creature feature#horror#nic cage#nicolas cage#overlook film fest#overlook film festival#reviews#shudder
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Cuckoo (2024)
Tilman Singer has quickly become the most exciting new voice in cosmic horror. His debut feature Luz started as a film school thesis project but was so strangely, psychically powerful that it broke out into wide release as one of the very best films of 2019 (according to me, anyway). I watched Luz as a quietly buzzy horror curio that reached my living room via VOD rental, and I was blown away…
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#brandon ledet#cryptids#cuckoo#dan stevens#horror#hunter schafer#mad scientist#overlook film fest#overlook film festival#reviews#tilman singer
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Riddle of Fire (2024)
It’s going to sound like an insult to immediately focus on its background details, but the low-budget kids’ adventure Riddle of Fire has some of the best set decoration artistry I’ve seen in any modern picture not directed by Wes Anderson. A large portion of the film is set in the woods, which comes with its own ready-made production value, but the interiors of characters’ living spaces are…
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Immaculate (2024)
There’s an emerging form of mainstream horror movie that appears to be generic & mediocre for most of its runtime, then springs a bonkers third act on its audience that retroactively makes it a Must-See Event Film through last-minute chutzpah. Let’s call it Grower-Not-Shower Horror, a genre that’s typified by titles like Malignant, The Boy, Orphan, Barbarian, The Empty Man, etc. Let’s also…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
The current run of American Godzilla movies so badly, nakedly want what Marvel Studios had in its Avengers era that they’re often referred to as The MonsterVerse, named of course after the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’re now at a point where the MCU’s glory days are quickly fading in the rearview, but the Marvelification of Godzilla has just been completed. After a few standalone stylistic…
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#action horror#adam wingard#brandon ledet#brian tyree henry#dan stevens#godzilla#horror#kaiju#king kong#rebecca hall#reviews#the new empire
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The Not-So-New 52: Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
Welcome to The Not-So-New 52, your digital Swampflix comic book (adaptation) newsstand! Starting in 2007, DC Comics and Warner Premiere entered the direct-to-home-video market with animated features, mostly in the form of adaptations of well-received event comics or notable arcs. This Swampflix feature takes its name from the 2011 DC relaunch event “The New 52,” and since there are (roughly)…
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#animation#dc comics#george newbern#henry simmons#Lists & Articles#mark boomer redmond#not so new 52#pauley perrette#robin atkin downes#superheroes#superman#superman vs the elite
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