possession

The Serpent’s Skin

By Terry Sherwood | April 2026

Alice Maio Mackay’s The Serpent’s Skin arrives with DIY textures, genre hybridity, and a fascination with bodies under pressure, but what distinguishes…

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Alice Maio Mackay’s The Serpent’s Skin arrives with DIY textures, genre hybridity, and a fascination with bodies under pressure, but what distinguishes...

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To make things clear: co-writer/director Samuel Van Grinsven's sophomore feature, Went Up the Hill, is not a horror retelling of the Mother Goose nursery...

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Kaishaku, directed by Harry Locke IV, opens brutally, juxtaposed with a slow song in black and white, and continues to shock from there. The film begins as...

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It could be growing up in a fairly religious environment, but I have always found films about demonic possession to be the scariest of all horror films....

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The Exorcist defined the demonic possession film in 1973, inspiring a global subgenre that brought us included 1974’s Italian L’Ossessa, 1975's Spanish...