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GNoH Review: Boy Kills World (2023)

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Written by Tyler Burton Smith, Arend Remmers and Moritz Mohr
Directed by Moritz Mohr

A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.(IMDB)

…strap yourself in, sit back and just let 111 minutes of wacky fun wash over you, all narrated by Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) from Bob’s Burgers.

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GNoH Review: Raising the Dead: Exploring the Works of George A. Romero

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Written by Adam Charles Hart

Raising the Dead dives into the expansive, extraordinary body of work found in Romero’s archive, going beyond his iconic zombie movies into a deep and varied collection of writings that never made it to the big screen.

 Available at Amazon

Raising the Dead: the work of George A. Romero is a definite recommendation for any fan, just as long as you are aware that this is a serious, academic endeavour and not a coffee table book full of glossy splatter and gore!

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GNoH Review: Arcadian (2024)

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Written by Mike Nilon
Directed by Benjamin Brewer

A father and his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the end of the world. (IMDB)

Without the monsters, I feel Arcadian could easily be lost amongst all the other post-disaster movies that have done similar things. Which is a shame as there is a decent movie here that. While it won’t set your Letterboxd scores alight, is an interesting enough diversion and a welcome dose of Cage.

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GNoH Review: The Last Breath (2024)

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Written by Andrew Prendergast and Nick Saltrese 
Directed by Joachim Hedén

A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks. (IMDB)

The Last Breath isn’t going to make a massive splash, but it does bring sharks and I am always here for that. 

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GNoH Review: What Remains (2022)

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Written by Megan Everett-Skarsgård and Ran Huang
Directed by Ran Huang

At a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, an uneasy triumvirate of multiple murderer Mads, therapist Anna, and policeman Soren, all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, and a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all. (IMDB)

If you are in the mood for a (very) slow burning character study of a serial killer, then What Remains is a good option. But, at 2 hours and 11 minutes, I think you need to be in the right mood for the movie. 

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GNoH Review: Insane Like Me (2022)

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Written by Britt Bankhead and Chip Joslin
Directed by Chip Joslin

A supernatural thriller about a combat veteran, who returns home after a tour of duty overseas. He becomes the lead suspect in his girlfriend’s disappearance and is subsequently wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Nine years later he is released from the mental asylum, he returns home to find the truth and settle the score. (IMDB)

You might not get the polished sheen of larger budget, studio productions, but it’s a pretty good indication of what might be to come from Bankhead and Joslin.

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GNoH Review: In Flames (2023)

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Written and Directed by Zarrar Kahn

After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them. (IMDB)

Kahn has delivered a brutal dissection of the impact of the patriarchy on life in Karachi wrapped up in an unnerving exploration of the supernatural. Highly recommended!

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GNoH Review: Headless

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Written by Scott Cole

In the midst of a heat wave punctuated by frequent rainstorms, people are losing their heads. Literally. Not only that, but their bodies are still walking, and attacking others. (Amazon)

If you had asked David Cronenberg to write the episode of Doctor WHO where the little Adipose creatures appeared, HEADLESS is probably what you would have got.

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MONOLITH (2022)

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Written by Lucy Campbell
Directed by Matt Vesely

A headstrong journalist whose investigative podcast uncovers a strange artifact, an alien conspiracy, and the lies at the heart of her own story. (IMDB)

Lily Sullivan is The Interviewer, a disgraced journalist coming to terms with the destruction of her career after running a story about a politician which she was convinced was true, but for which she couldn’t provide the receipts.

House-sitting her parents’ modern country mansion she slogs away on a low-rent podcast that trades on sensationalism and conspiracy theories. She clearly thinks this is beneath her being less than complimentary about her listeners and the people calling with stories but, with her career in tatters, and her own home under siege by reporters, what other option does she have?

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