THE WITCH

Robert Egger’s THE LIGHTHOUSE: VOD REVIEWS; a masterfully crafted nightmare starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson

By Miguel Cima 6 years ago

What matters here is the journey, the morbid trek through the nether regions of the soul rendered in atavistic scenarios. Terrors the human race may have believed it left behind when ancient ancestors emerged from the seas are recalled, turning out to never having been far behind. As the grotesqueries mount from the ordinary to the dramatic and the surreal, the audience can feel anxiety and dread building.

TRIBECA 2017 REVIEWS: Rainer Sarnet's NOVEMBER and Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's THE ENDLESS offers up scares and WTF moments aplenty highlighting this year's Tribeca Midnight fare

By Miguel Cima 9 years ago

For all of the heady titles a fancy fest like Tribeca boasts, there’s also a nice bit of midnight movie material floating around. Two standouts grabbed my attention, albeit for very different reasons. One is a bizarro bit of dark folklore from deep within the Baltic states. The other is an old-fashioned supernatural yarn set in rural America in the mold of The Twilight Zone. Both are great examples of how a discerning festival can find sublime treasures even in the over-trodden tropes of fantasy flicks.