“Turn Out the Light” by Penelope Love (2015)
“The distance they had struggled with all their lives was now made infinite by death.”
The horror of a gulf between mother and son.
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“The Cemetery” by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
“Don’t you just want to get this over with?”
How do we learn to navigate the scary stuff? And why do some of us make it while others don’t?
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Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)
“Do you believe in loyalty, Mr. Brown? What about betrayal?”
This pendulum swings from horrifying to erotic and back again so many times it made my head spin. I had to look up what the hell was going on afterward. I’m certainly learning a lot about the New French Extremity this month.
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Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)
“Our butternut hero returns to his life as a mundane carved gourd.”
A cute Halloween platformer that hits many horror monster tropes. These sorts of games tend to lean into that “Nintendo hard” mentality but the developers are thankfully lenient and keep it a short and sweet experience.