REVIEW: Kicking Blood [2022]

Where do we go when we die? Living forever isn’t living. It can’t be. Without the threat of death, all you’re doing is going through the motions. Just because Anna (Alanna Bale) understands this more than her centuries-old hunting friends (Benjamin Sutherland‘s Boris and Ella Jonas Farlinger‘s Nina), however, means little if she refuses to actually change. Not that she hasn’t in superficial ways like holding down a job (working sunrise to sunset at a library) while they live off the spoils of their latest, wealthy victim. But that’s more…

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TIFF15 REVIEW: Hellions [2015]

“Blood for baby” There’s a lot I like about Bruce McDonald‘s latest horror Hellions. Just as much also has me scratching my head, though. While this sometimes enhances the experience by cajoling you into wanting to watch it again to catch any little details you may have missed, I’m not sure this is one of those times. Unfortunately, right when the creepy factor breaks through its gauge to push me over the edge, it suddenly devolves into silliness. I don’t think it’s of the intentional kind either because screenwriter Pascal…

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