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@"This is man, woman and chainsaw, sexed-up and stylised, exposing a Japanese housewife’s indoor appetites and anxieties": Banmei Takahashi's home invasion slasher DOOR (1988) is on Blu-ray from today via #ThirdWindowFilms. Capsule for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-october
"Improbably blending pagan folklore with a post-Manson mindset, this is a bad trip through the paranoia of 1970s Los Angeles, where monsters and madness cohabit": MEATCLEAVER MASSACRE (1977) now on Blu via #101Films. Capsule for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-october/
"All you really need is a mirror": Ted Geoghegan's superlative supernatural postwar sit-down BROOKLYN 45 (2023) points an accusatory finger at America's Greatest Generation over a séance. 5.15pm today at #SITGESFestival. Capsule for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/festivals/midnight-in-austin-four-world-premieres-at-sxsw-2023/
With the mind/body horror APPENDAGE (2023), Anna Zlokovic "goes full body snatcher, in a twisty tale of a vulnerable woman’s agonising journey towards personal wholeness." Screens 3.15pm today at #SITGESFestival . Capsule for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/festivals/midnight-in-austin-four-world-premieres-at-sxsw-2023/
Nostalgia will not save you: David Gordon Green's reduplicative requel THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (2023) looks back to Friedkin's original, "without moving forward to anything better, or even half as good." In UK cinemas from today. Review for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-exorcist-believer-a-trashy-overstuffed-requel/
"Coming out the same year the Red Army Faction was founded, Rudolf Thome’s thriller focuses on a revolutionary cell dedicated less to resisting state imperialism than to overthrowing patriarchy itself": RED SUN on #ArrowPlayer from today. For #LWLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/
Nathaniel Martello-White's twisty small-town domestic thriller THE STRAYS (2023) is "a provocative allegory of black experience in white Britain", with a sprinkle of Haneke, Clay & Peele. Now on #NetflixUK. Sly and confronting. Review for #LWLies https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-strays/