Scanners is horror turned inside out. And outside in. Thought crimes are reified, as a subculture of”telephatic curiosities” (aka, “scanners”) are able to use their brains to kill. Scanners are social outcasts, unable to quell the voices in their heads and it’s this “loss of self” that is explored in what can be described asContinue reading “Scanners”
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Dark Cove
What to do with a body is the quintessential noir set-up. Hitchcock played it for gallows humor in The Trouble with Harry, but it’s a real genre-crosser, a moral and ethical conundrum that greases the wheels of any plot. Enter Dark Cove, a BC-lensed micro-budget horror that powers out of the gate with just such a scenario.Continue reading “Dark Cove”
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