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The Best News Out of Sundance? Horror Movies to Get Excited About
This has been a fallow period for horror. Connect with it a provide-and-demand problem: There have not been plenty of scary movies—good kinds, in any case. (Can you identify a horror film you definitely loved from the final 18 months? I can appear up with just one: The Night time Home.) Nor has there been the exact same hunger for them, I’d argue. Horror thrives in theaters, which have been lonesome locations of late, and lived fact in a pandemic has supplied jolts and dread and stress all on its own. But ample of that—the return to normality I’m below for is a refreshing crop of cinematic scares to get…
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Sundance Film Festival: Lena Dunham’s New Film and ‘Get Out’-Influenced Horror
There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Competition was in danger of staying confused by swag, hype and other more-cinematic preoccupations. One yr, if I don’t forget suitable, there had been stickers all in excess of its Park City, Utah, house reminding those people of us in attendance to “focus on films” relatively than get-togethers, superstar sightings, market excitement and tabloid gossip. That isn’t a lot of a trouble now. For the next calendar year in a row, Sundance isn’t in Park Town at all. Rather of traipsing up and down Principal Street or piling into shuttle buses, the viewers is specifically in which it…