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In these stressful times where every nickel counts (we no longer have pennies in Canada) anywhere you can save money feels like winning the lottery. But what if you need to get your freak on and celebrate spooky season but cannot afford one, two, three, and more subscriptions to streamers to scratch that itch? Here in North America, an upcoming free-to-air and free-to-stream TV channel dedicted to horror called Scream TV may be the solution you’re looking for.    From the description it sounds like ScreamTV will operate like Tubi or PlutoTV, sticking to a schedule of daytime and nighttime programming. The program schedule will be on the main page scream-tv.com when everything goes live on October 18th.    Read up on all the confirmed…

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Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.   MadS, the French single take outbreak horror written and directed by David Moreau, starts streaming on Shudder on October 18th. The official trailer has debuted today, go check it out down below. Look for our review closer to…

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Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki, Plastic is heartwarming in an unobtrusive way. Two teenagers meet in the town of Nagoya, Japan. One is a girl who wears flowy clothes. One is a boy with beach blonde hair. They both like the band Exne Kedy, and I must admit, the soundtrack is incredibly fun. It is inspired by Kensuke Ide’s 2021 concept album Strolling Planet ’74 – in the sense that the band pretends to be a 70s glam rock group in this film. Ibuki (An Ogawa) starts dating Jun (Takuma Fujie). We cut to a time-skip. Then another, then another. Plastic takes into account how people and life evolve, notably working with the early pandemic period. There’s an amazing amount of both humour and youth. There…

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Albert Serra’s aim is capturing the purity.

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Our friends at the Telluride Horror Show down in Colorado have revealed the lineup for this year’s event. Celebrating it’s fifteenth year it’s the best weekend you can ever have during spooky season in the Centennial State.    This year, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence will close out the weekend while festival faves like A Desert, Dark Match, Daddy’s Head, Dead Talents Society, Parvulos, The Rule of Jenny Pen and The Soul Eater are among the list of feature films playing this year.    The weekend always includes an author’s program and this year our friend Grady Hendrix will be joined by another author whose works I’ve read, Jeremy Robert Johnson.  Other books I’m going to have to read now come from other guest authors including Rachel…

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