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Best Horror Films / Thrillers of 2011

Filmmakers have continued to push boundaries and find new innovative ways to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. Since Alfred Hitchcock directors strived to provoke viewer’s nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, others have focused more on a …

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Fantasia 2011: Post-collapse ‘Stake Land’ mixes pulp violence with real-world unease

Stake Land Written by Jim Mickle and Nick Damici Directed by Jim Mickle USA, 2010 A recent 60 Minutes report puts forth a startling figure: thanks to the high unemployment rate, soon 25% of all children in the United States will be living under the poverty line, many of them resorting to temporary shelter to …

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‘Stake Land’ – absorbing, and sort of moving, and quite scary…

Stake Land Directed by Jim Mickle Screenplay by Nick Damici and Jim Mickle 2010, USA Horror films, despite their divisiveness, are uncannily successful as time capsules. Stake Land, despite its many flaws, quite exhaustively captures the zeitgeist of 2010 America. Director Jim Mickle’s second feature is a vampire-apocalypse-road-movie featuring a dumb, animalistic class of vampires–that …

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Fantastic Fest 2010: Stake Land

Stake Land Directed by Jim Mickle Horror films, despite their divisiveness, are uncannily successful as time capsules. Stake Land, despite its many flaws, quite exhaustively captures the zeitgeist of 2010 America. Director Jim Mickle’s second feature is a vampire-apocalypse-road-movie featuring a dumb, animalistic class of vampires–that is to say zombies with more rules and more …

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