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‘DEN [The Mare]’ to Screen at Nightmares Film Festival
Casper Rudolf Emil Kjeldsen’s DEN aka The Mare is headed to Nightmares Film Festival this year, and it lives up to the festival’s goal for Better Horror.
Set in Kjeldsen’s native Denmark, The Mare mines the depths of early Nordic folklore where fearsome creatures roamed the forests, often in the guise of something far less sinister.
From the official synopsis:
“In the bleak winder landscape of Denmark, two social workers find a young woman alone in the woods. But there is something troubling about her; she doesn’t speak and her eyes fill everyone around her with angst. As her presence starts to creep into everyone around her, they start to second guess whether taking her away from the woods was a good idea.”
The Mare is pure nightmare fuel made up of equally important parts.
Kjeldsen’s storytelling is visually stunning with scenes of the young woman (Alvilda Lyneborg Lassen) and her interactions with the social workers and psychiatrist intercut with scenes of the forest from which they took her. It is as though he’s reminding us, time and time again, that she does not belong in the modern world, and it is wholly effective in enhancing the tension he expertly builds in the audience.
Meanwhile, Lassen herself walks the razor thin line between innocence and menace, rarely responding to those around her while simultaneously seeming to gaze directly into their souls.
And then there is the subject itself. The archetypes created in the oldest stories told around fires on the darkest nights of the year are reflected in The Mare, and prove that they are still all together capable of working their way into our psyche.
And finally, Mads Bittmann’s stunning score provides evocative accompaniment for each unexpected twist and turn as we learn the all too terrifying truth about the girl’s character.
This is one short film you won’t want to miss when you attend this year’s festival!
The Mare will screen in the Midnight Shorts C Block Friday, October 19, 2018 at midnight at Nightmares Film Festival at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Ohio. For a full schedule of screenings and for ticketing information, click here.

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Vomit Bags Handed Out in Theaters as ‘Saw X’ is Called Worse Than ‘Terrifier 2’

Remember all the puking folks were doing when Terrifier 2 was released in theaters? It was an incredible amount of social media showing folks tossing their cookies in theaters at the time. For good reason too. If you have seen the film and know what Art the Clown does to a girl in a yellow room, you know that Terrifier 2 wasn’t messing around. But it appears that Saw X is being seen a challenger.
One of the scenes that is apparently bothering folks this time is the one in which a guy has to perform brain surgery on himself in order to hack out a chunk of grey matter that weighs enough for the challenge. The scene is pretty brutal.
The synopsis for Saw X goes like this:
Hoping for a miraculous cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer uses deranged and ingenious traps to turn the tables on the con artists.
For me personally, I still think that Terrifier 2 owns this crown though. It is gnarly throughout and Art is brutal and doesn’t have a code or anything. He just loves killin’. While Jigsaw deals in revenge or in ethics. Also, we see the vomit bags, but I haven’t seen anyone using em just yet. So, I’ll remain skeptical.
All in all, I gotta say I like both films since both are sticking with practical effects instead of going the cheapy computer graphics way.
Have you seen Saw X yet? Do you think that it rivals Terrifier 2? Let us know in the comments section.

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Billy Gives a Tour of His Home in ‘SAW X’ MTV Parody

While SAW X dominates in theaters, we here at iHorror are enjoying the promos. One of the best SAW promos that we have seen is hands down the one that features Billy giving us a tour of his home in a MTV parody approach.
The latest SAW film brings back Jigsaw by taking us back into the past and an all-out revenge plan on his Cancer doctors. A group that counts on making money off of sick people messes with the wrong guy and undergoes a whole lot of torture.
“Hoping for a miraculous cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer uses deranged and ingenious traps to turn the tables on the con artists.“
SAW X is now playing in theaters. Have you already seen it? Let us know what you thought.
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‘The Last Drive-In’ Changes to Single Movie Approach Over Double Features

Well, while I always enjoy more Joe Bob Briggs in my life I am not sure about AMC’s latest decision for Joe Bob Briggs and The Last Drive-In. The news going around is that the team would be getting a “super-sized” season. While it does go on a little longer than we are used to, it comes with a huge bummer as well.
The “super-sized” season will also include the upcoming John Carpenter Halloween special and the Daryl Dixon Walking Dead series’ first episodes. It also includes a Christmas Episode and a Valentine’s Day episode. When the true season begins next year it will give us one episode every other week in place of the much-loved double-feature.
This will stretch out the season further but not by giving fans extra films. Instead, it will skip a week and skip out on the late-night fun of the double feature.
This is a decision made by AMC Sudder and not by the team at The Last Drive-In.
I’m hoping that a well-placed petition may assist in getting the double features back. But only time will tell.
What do you think about the new line-up for The Last Drive-In? Will you miss the double features and the string of consistent episodes? Let us know in the comments section.