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Syfy’s Nightflyers
Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora
Bravo’s Dirty John
CBS’s Tell Me a Story
Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House
Hulu’s Into the Dark
USA’s The Purge
FX’s Mayans M.C.
Showtime’s Kidding
RVK’s Trapped
Netflix’s Ghoul
Hulu’s Castle Rock
HBO’s Sharp Objects
CBS’s Strange Angel
Freeform’s Siren
AMC’s The Terror
CBC’s Caught
TNT’s The Alienist
Fox’s Gotham
Starz’s Counterpart
Syfy’s Happy!
Netflix’s Dark
Amazon’s Lore
USA’s Mr. Robot
Sky Atlantic’s Tin Star
AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes
USA’s The Sinner
HBO’s Room 104
Showtime’s Twin Peaks
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
FX’s Taboo
SyFy’s Channel Zero

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Hirotaka Adachi's STARE premiered at Fantasia Fest 2019 last night. STARE doesn’t necessarily give J-horror fans anything new. Still, the film’s incredibly creepy. Adachi’s screenplay touches on themes about how / why folk tales affect us, and how the past connects with modernity through urban legends. Many typical vengeful ghost story-inspired J-horror titles blend together because, ultimately, they don’t dig deep enough into the folklore concept that drives them. The film inadvertently draws comparison to events in recent pop culture memory which testify to the power of modern folklore, such as the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Wisconsin and, to a lesser extent, the viral panic over the Momo Challenge hoax. Because fictional or not, stories have serious, sometimes dangerous power. Click the bio link to read a full essay on STARE! And swipe over for a couple more creepy + gory pics. #Horror #Fantasia2019 #HorrorMovies #InstaHorror #Mystery #UrbanLegends #FantasiaFest #JHorror #Ghost #Folklore #WorldPremiere #HirotakaAdachi #Otsuichi #HorrorFan #HorrorAddict #Essay #UrbanLegend #Myth

Dark Star Pictures & Uncork’d Entertainment present SEEDS, in theatres September 13th & on VOD/DVD September 24th. Director Owen Long’s SEEDS is a Gothic horror about a man haunted by his dark past while pursuing self-care on the New England coast. After a night of debauchery spirals out of control, Marcus retreats to his family home along the New England coast. Solitude is disturbed when his brother asks Marcus to look after his estranged nephew & niece. As days pass, solace escapes him— he feels baited by a dark force. Is he losing his mind or has something terrible burrowed deep within him, waiting until the climate is right? Marcus struggles not to succumb to his deepest fears as he fights to protect Lily, his beloved niece from a monster that lies in wait. Andrea Chen, Garr Long, & Kevin Breznahan star opposite Trevor Long (OZARK). 💀 #Horror #Film #InstaHorror #UncorkdEntertainment #Poster #TrevorLong #HorrorMovies #Movies #HorrorFan #HorrorAddict #GothicHorror #Gothic #HorrorFilm #Creepy #Monster #NewMovies #NewEnglandGothic #PsychologicalHorror #Ozark #OwenLong

Tonight at Fantasia Fest 2019, BLOOD ON HER NAME premieres— a tense, tough rural neo-noir about a woman (Bethany Anne Lind) faced with committing murder in self-defence & all its terrible consequences. Also stars the inimitable Will Patton! #Film #InstaHorror #Revenge #NeoNoir #FantasiaFest #Fantasia2019 #Movies #Teaser #Trailer #Thriller #FilmNoir #SouthernGothic #WillPatton #BethanyAnneLind #WorldPremiere #FantasiaFestival

The latest episode of LEGION was terrifying & wild. One of the best TV episodes ever to exist! Huge fan of the series, & easily Father Gore's favourite Marvel adaptation out there. Not even huge on superheroes, yet LEGION continually knocks it out of the park. So many great performances! Not to mention the themes of mental illness the series tackles are incredibly interesting. Should be fun to see how they end the show with this season. #Horror #InstaHorror #LegionFX #Marvel #Superheroes #HorrorFan #Surrealism #NoahHawley #LegionSeason3 #DanStevens #TimeEaters #HorrorAddict #Creepy

DARLIN' (2019) screened at Fantasia Fest 2019. Hopefully others were as moved by this important piece of horror as Father Gore was, because it is one of the best films this year! An incredibly relevant slice of cinema. Click the bio link to read an essay on DARLIN'! #Horror #InstaHorror #Fantasia2019 #Darlin #PollyannaMcIntosh #HorrorMovies #HorrorFan #Film #Movies #FantasiaFest #HorrorAddict #Misogyny #Patriarchy #WomenInHorror #LaurynCanny #Sequel #JackKetchumy #LuckyMcKee #Trilogy

My girl Alycia Debnam-Carey killing it on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD in tonight's episode, as usual! She gives Sheriff Rick Grimes a run for his money. She's hard as nails— in fact, there are nails not even as hard as her. #Horror #InstaHorror #AlyciaDebnamCarey #FearTWD #HorrorFan #HorrorAddict #Zombies #TheWalkingDead #FearTheWalkingDead #Zombie #Gore #HorrorTV

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From Lee Chang-dong

Father Gore’s Favourite Films of 2018

2018 was a great year to love films— just like every year!

Published: 01/06/2019

Words: Father Gore

2018
Christian Bale
Drama
Film
Horror
Lee Chang-dong
List
Luca Guadagnino
Thriller
Xavier Legrand

Adam McKay
Best of 2018
Brady Corbet
Elizabeth Debicki
Father Gore
Feature Film Debut
Jennifer Fox
Lars Von Trier
List
Mission: Impossible
Natalie Portman
Ryan Prows
Suspiria
Xavier Legrand

The Existential Miseries & Mysteries of Class in BURNING

Lee Chang-dong's latest film is an existential mystery. Be prepared!

Published: 12/13/2018

Words: Father Gore

Drama
Existentialism
Film
Jeon Jong-seo
Lee Chang-dong
Mystery
South Korean Film
Steven Yeun
Yoo Ah-in

Barn Burning
Class Division
Cogito ergo sum
DMZ
Great Hunger
Haruki Murakami
Little Hunger
Metaphor
Millennial
Steven Yeun
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner

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Destructive Legacies of Fatherhood in Larry Fessenden’s DEPRAVED
Jenn Wexler’s THE RANGER: A Punk Rock Manifesto for Women
BLOOD RAGE’s Gory Freudian Nightmare
Make a Case #2— Wes Craven’s SHOCKER (1989)
FEAR: Queasy Male Jealousy and Patriarchal Control
PEEPING TOM Implicates Us All
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An Interview with STARFISH Director Al White
HEREDITARY’s Dark Heart of Grief and Mental Illness
Trip Into a Horror of ’80s Fears with MANDY
UPGRADE: The Abject Anxieties of Bodies + Technology
[Essay]”Fear is a place”: SESSION 9’s Gothic Madness in Uncanny Places
KILL LIST: Gothic Nationalism’s Violent Erasure of Modernity
UNSANE Exposes Our Sad Society of Disbelief for Women’s Realities
Violent Evolution + Cycles of Life/Death in ANNIHILATION
VENOM: Socialism’s Accidental Super-Antihero
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SLEEPAWAY CAMP and the Horror of Enforcing Gender Roles
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PYEWACKET— Or, How to Destroy Yourself + Others with Grief
Unhealthy Fetish + Sexualised Trauma in Brett Leonard’s FEED
FRONTIER(S): Post-WWII Gothic and Political Invasion of the Body
Prayers to a Consumer God: American Decay + Ideological Control in THEY LIVE
Taking Back the Night with MS. 45: Gendered Fear in City Spaces
Multicultural Hope from the Gutters of America in LOWLIFE
[Essay]Stephen King— Modern Folklorist and Old School Storyteller
The Male Gaze & Violent Religion in REVENGE
BLOODLANDS: An Albanian Parable
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Carpenter’s Hyperviolent Dystopian Prison State
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THE FIRST PURGE is a Dark Mirror of Current America
Hidden Digital Lives in SEARCHING
SADIE and the Child Soldiers of America
TYREL: Relative Terror in Black/White
CAM: This (Postmodern) Woman’s Work
Mackenzie and Pine De-Mythologise Robert the Bruce in OUTLAW KING
Damaged Masculinity + Small Town Fates in BACK ROADS
“We should have never come to this house”: Freud’s Uncanny & the Modern Gothic in SINISTER
Transgenerational Wounds of Post-Pinochet Chile in TRAUMA
[Slamdance 2019] The Gorgeous Face of Catharsis in HAPPY FACE
Dichotomies of Violence: Abuse, Autonomy, and BDSM in Nicolas Pesce’s PIERCING

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Father Gore is first and foremost a passionate lover of film— especially horror. He's also a Master's candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland with a concentration in postmodern critical theory, currently writing a thesis which will be his debut novel of literary fiction, titled Silence. He also used to write for Film Inquiry frequently during 2016-17 and is currently contributing to Scriptophobic in a column called Serial Killer Celluloid focusing on film adaptations about real life murderers. As of September 2018, Father Gore is an official member of the Online Film Critics Society, and as of April 2019 he's currently listed as a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.

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