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A tall figure in a rusted metal fire-helmet walking through a sunlit pine forest.

In a Violent Nature: The Slasher from the Wrong Side

Chris Nash's debut takes the slasher apart from the killer's point of view, and the radical formal choice is also the reason the film divides its audience. I want to argue for it.

Marcus Vell·4 Feb·6 min

A life-size wooden mannequin of a man seated in a dim rural Irish farmhouse.

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Oddity: McCarthy's Puppet as Grief

Damian McCarthy's second feature is the best pure-horror indie of 2024, and the clearest argument going for what micro-budget Irish genre cinema can do when it commits to a single effect and doesn't blink.

Marcus Vell·5 Jan·6 min