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Already missed Halloween? Stay at home and attend this year's Virtual New York City Horror Film Festival (December 2-9) or this month's streaming selection, which includes mutants in love and bloody mushrooms.

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Who would have thought that my pulse would watch someone working on a computer at home during a pandemic? This is what happened in this intense conspiracy thriller written and directed by Christian Nilsson. (Don't confuse it with another new horror film called "Dashcam".)

It was Halloween night, and Jack (played by the passionate Eric Tabach) was a video editor. He worked in his apartment in New York City, broadcasting local TV news, about a deadly traffic station, involving a policeman And a former state attorney general. When Jake received an e-mail marked "Confidential" from the state press office, he opened the e-mail and found evidence of a dash cam, indicating that what happened on the road that night might have been an assassination.

Jack, who dreamed of becoming a reporter, was in shock and left his apartment, looking for clues he thought was hidden in Washington Square Park. But what happened to that car idling outside his apartment?

Nilsson cited Francis Ford Coppola's "dialogue" as inspiration and displayed it. The most creepy thing about "Dash Cam" is that only audio and video clips, as well as Jack's surgical adjustments to them, guide the paranoid-driven story. In the disturbing 82 minutes, Nelson squeezed a huge suspense from the seemingly one-off moment, as if Jack was just sitting down and listening to the soundtrack. It sounds like the soft underline from the next apartment adds a sinister sound edge.

The 2019 documentary "Black Horror" is an eye-opening view of black Americans and their status and relationship in horror movies. Using the same title, this anthology highlights black actors, filmmakers, and six creepy stories, including a vampire, a house possessed, and as one character said, "He's damned Satan".

There are two outstanding. In Kimani Ray Smith's very interesting horror comedy "Sunset", "Going Out" meets "Midsummer Festival". Erica Ash and Tone Bell play a couple whose political canvassing activities in rural West Virginia were interrupted by a local racist vampire one night.

The other is "Brand of Evil" by Julien Christian Lutz. This is a Faustian story about the young gay artist Nekani (Brandon Mychal Smith) starting to receive high-paying commissions from mysterious patrons. When Nekani learned that his client's design was a symbol of hatred, he tried to reconcile the sinister task with the large sums of money they brought. In any case: his fate is doomed, with suffocating consequences.

Jaco Bouwer's films are multiple genres: folk horror films, ecological horror films, survival films, and biological feature films. This is also about killer mushrooms.

At the beginning of the film, two South African rangers Gaby (Monique Rockman) and Winston (Anthony Osemi) are rowing along the river. The unmanned reconnaissance aircraft above them crashed, but before Gabi saw a figure appeared in front of the camera. When entering the forest to investigate, her foot was injured by a trap, but managed to reach the crumbling home of survivalist Barend (Carel Nel) and his son Stefan (Alex Van Dijk). Later, after the three of them repelled the creatures that invaded the hut, Gaby realized that the dark supernatural power was affecting the father and son's love of nature.

The message of this movie is folk horror chestnut: nature is good, technology and city are bad. What is refreshing is the jaw-dropping photography by Jorrie van der Walt, who made the flora-the film was shot in the Garden Route area of ​​South Africa-to look breathtaking.

This movie usually looks like a fashion advertisement—wild mushroom spores float like twinkling stars, and cute little plants sprout from Gaby’s body. Don't let beauty fool you-what you see is a bloody natural world.

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Fraternal twins Spencer (Taylor Turner) and Sarah Moss (Amelia Dudley) checked in at a hotel in Vermont to investigate the final whereabouts of their father, who was born on the day they were born Mysteriously disappeared at night. There, they met the weird night manager (Greg Schwers), who remembered every guest, and Dean (Bominier), a clumsy but mysterious handyman.

The manager claimed that the inn was full, but when Spencer and Sarah wandered in the empty hall, no one else seemed to be there. Of course, they are not alone-through a static television, their father appeared with a mysterious message.

1. "The Power of Dogs": Benedict Cumberbatch is highly praised for his performance in Jane Campion's new psychodrama. This is what an actor needs to become a passionate alpha-male cowboy.

2. "Don't Look Up": Meryl Streep plays a self-centered villain in Adam McKay's apocalyptic satire. She turned to the "Real Housewives" series for inspiration.

3. "King Richard": Ann Zhennu Ellis, who played the mother of Venus and Serena Williams in the biopic, shared how she turned a supporting role into a talker.

4. "Tick, tick...boom!": Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut is adapted from a series by Jonathan Larson, the creator of "Rent". This guide can help you unravel its many layers.

5. "The Tragedy of Macbeth": Several upcoming black and white films, including Joel Cohen's new interpretation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth".

Erik Bloomquist's low-cost movies don't always land. Exaggerated scores do not match the intimate environment. Spencer is so harsh, I take root for Satan.

In other words, this little emotionally driven movie has real courage. In just 70 minutes, it provides a creepy deal with the devil in the haunted hotel genre. The seemingly vivid television that fuels the story reminds me of Atom Egoyan's early movies and how the monitor became a gateway to family grief.

The police station in a small Polish town has a problem at hand. The first is a few corpses, there is also a prison, which houses two weird ogres and a young woman Zosia (Julia Viniava-Nakiwitz), she said she is a nearby teenager technical The only survivor of the massacre in the addict camp.

An inspector brought Zosia back to the field to look around, but they didn't go far, and the slime of a meteorite released a cruel force. Zocia became a violent monster, and the young officer, the neo-Nazi brothers, and the prostitute who stood in front of her had no chance.

This bloody, farce sequel does not match the clever and entertaining interpretation of the original fantasy horror movie as a kind of enjoyment. (Both films are in Polish and directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski.) However, when this film takes an unexpected turn in the last paragraph, when a strange human mutant sexual encounter occurs, it provides Strange and sweet lesson about difference and understanding.

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