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Final Girl (2015)

Review by CJ

Director:
Tyler Shields

Starring:
Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley, Alexander Ludwig, Cameron Bright, Logan Huffman, Reece Thompson

Other notable appearances:
Francesca Eastwood

Running time:
90 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Dolan’s Cadillac, Sin City

 

A group of four men lure blonde women into the woods and murder them. That is until they come up against their latest intended victim Veronica (Breslin), a trained assassin sent to finish their game once and for all.

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Honeymoon [Original title: Luna de miel] (2015)

Review by CJ

Director:
Diego Cohen

Starring:
Hector Kotsifakis, Paulina Ahmed

Other notable appearances:
Alberto Agnesi

Running time:
96 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Saw, Wolf Creek

Trigger warning:
Sexual assault and rape

 

When Jorge (Kotsifakis) falls in love with Isabel (Ahmed) at first sight, he won’t let anything stand in the way of their love. Not her husband, not the fact they’ve never met, and certainly not the fact that she doesn’t love him in return.

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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Review by CJ

Director:
Eli Craig

Starring:
Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Brandon Jay McLaren, Christie Laing, Chelan Simmons, Travis Nelson, Alex Arsenault

Other notable appearances:
Philip Granger

Running time:
89 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Cabin in the Woods, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland

 

Through a series of unfortunate events, well-meaning hillbillies Tucker (Tudyk) and Dale (Labine) are mistaken for murderers by a group of college students. When the college students decide to turn the tables, Tucker and Dale find themselves fighting for their lives.

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The Stepfather (2009)

Review by CJ

Director:
Nelson McCormick

Starring:
Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard

Other notable appearances:
Paige Turco, Sherry Stringfield, Jon Tenney

Running time:
101 minutes

 

When Michael (Badgley) returns from military school, he finds his mother Susan (Ward) engaged to a man she’s known for six months. Susan’s fiancé David (Walsh) tries to endear himself to Michael but the formerly wayward teen suspects his future stepfather has insidious motives. With the help of his girlfriend Kelly (Heard), Michael must discover what David is up to in order to save his mother and siblings.

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Under the Shadow (2016)

Review by CJ

Director:
Babak Anvari

Starring:
Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi

Running time:
84 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Babadook, Poltergeist, The Conjuring

 

In 1980s war torn Tehran, Shideh (Rashidi) and her daughter Dorsa (Manshadi) are left alone in their apartment while patriarch Iraj (Naderi) is deployed to perform medical duties in an area of combat. In addition to dealing with regular air raids, fleeing neighbours and her husband’s insistence that she take Dorsa to his parents, Shideh begins to suspect there is a supernatural entity stalking her daughter.

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