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Tragedy and Trauma During World War II in Liliana Cavani’s THE NIGHT PORTER

ScreenFish StaffApr 2, 2024

By Robert Bellissimo Writer/Director Liliana Cavani based The Night Porter on real events. She had been making a documentary for Italian TV on prison camps when she met a woman who was a concentration camp survivor, whose lover was an SS Nazi Officer. He had been...

Edge of the City: Friendship, Cowardice and Racism

ScreenFish StaffFeb 28, 2024

by Robert Bellissimo Edge Of The City (1957) was expanded from the 1955 live-for-televison play, "A Man Is Ten Feet Tall", which was specifically written for Sidney Poitier. It broke ground at the time for depicting a close friendship between a black man and a white...

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Ordinary Angels: Making a Difference

ScreenFish StaffFeb 25, 2024

By Adam Kline In 1993, in small town Kentucky, a hairdresser hears the story of a local family stricken by grief and struggling to pay their bills. The father, recently widowed, with two young girls is burdened by medical bills because his youngest is ill and in...

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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Freddy Fazbear’s Eras Tour

ScreenFish StaffOct 27, 2023

By Catherine Erskine While people are focusing on the intensity of Five Nights at Freddy’s, it's nothing compared to its fans. From full costumes (some of which were very creative and cool) to very…… assertive young people controlling the movements of those in line...

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Talk To Me: Let Me In

ScreenFish StaffJul 28, 2023

By Catherine Erskine As you know, I love horror movies, especially possession ones, even if they make me sleep with a light on. (Alright fine, they all do. But movies about possession means that I need an extra bright nightlight!) As their feature film debut, Talk to...

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Evil Dead Rise: Elevating a Franchise… and my Blood Pressure

ScreenFish StaffApr 21, 2023

By Catherine Erskine Executive produced by Bruce Campbell (the OG Ash himself), along with the amazing Sam Raimi, Evil Dead Rise brings the horror of Book of the Dead into an updated, urban nightmare. This disturbing ride is so fueled with terror that it...

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M3GAN: Embrace the Madness

ScreenFish StaffJan 6, 2023

By Catherine Erskine She?s got style! She?s got flare! She?ll have you questioning the very fabric of reality! It?s M3GAN! There is much to say about this ?horror? sci-fi movie. (And, personally, I prefer the term 'thriller' over horror in this case) But let?s...

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Monster Mondays – Godzilla 2000: Millenium (1999)

ScreenFish StaffDec 5, 2022

By Ben Dower Yuji Shinoda (Takehiro Murata), with the help of his daughter Io (Mayu Suzuki), heads up the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN), an independent group of researchers who track Godzilla.??While chasing Godzilla through Nemuro one evening, they are joined by...

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All Quiet on the Western Front: Horrors of War; Peace of the Moment

ScreenFish StaffOct 26, 2022

By Daniel Eng All Quiet on the Western Front?follows the barely grown Paul (Felix Kammerer) as he joins the German army with his high school friends in the middle of WWI. This 2 1/2 hour war epic follows Paul as he finds himself on a horrific adventure where he...

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