There’s all kinds of death and beauty out here. Some wounds don’t heal. Not with time. Not with a mythical lake of water with the power to mend all ailments. And while we can try to forget, the mind will always keep a little bit of the truth in reach to ensure the cause of the pain is never far away. It therefore makes sense that we would ultimately meet and leave Stephen Lang‘s character at the center of Old Man asleep on his bed with thumb in mouth like…
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I need more parts. Kids don’t like weird. They like being weird and marking those weirder than them as pariahs out of jealousy and/or entitlement. The question where it concerns May Dove Canady (Angela Bettis) is whether she was ever actually weird at all. As writer/director Lucky McKee explains via a brief prologue, the kids stayed away from her because of how she handled her lazy eye. Rather than lean into it and make it a non-issue, her mother did everything in her power to force young May to keep…
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“It’s supposed to be cold, right?” Oh those silly amateur Wiccans trying to play God. Haven’t they learned it never ends well? You bring one cat back to life and you think you can change the course of nature all because you’re in love. It’s a sweet thought sure, but as anyone who has ever seen a horror film knows, there are always consequences. That whole “one life for another” stuff does its best to balance out the universe without fail. Thankfully Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson know how to…
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