horror – Area 33

To Camp, Perchance To Die

Trente-trois — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:29:21 +0000

HELL OF A SUMMER – a film by Billy Bryk & Finn Wolfhard (limited spoilers) ⁓ Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger) is chauffered to Camp Pineway by his mother Maggie (Susan Coyne). Jason has a big friendly puppy-dog personality, and goes …

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The Island of Doctor Ledger

Trente-trois — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:56:46 +0000

OLIVIA – a film by Felipe Morell – SPOILERS ⁓ At the start, Janis (Sara Mitich) wakes from a dream full of fire and music. On her way downstairs, she stops to look at a photo on the wall (which …

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The Dog Groomer and the Undertaker

Trente-trois — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:52:50 +0000

THE SHROUDS – a film by David Cronenberg – (SPOILERS) ⁓ The Shrouds is a study in obsession and possessiveness. It is thematically similar to Lenore, and Annabel Lee, and just the sort of macabre tale Edgar Allen Poe might …

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Dostoyevsky and the Creation of Evil

Trente-trois — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:20:37 +0000

PYEWACKET – a film by Adam MacDonald – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Leah Reyes (Nicole Muñoz) is a high school student whose father died not long ago. She copes with the loss by delving into occult things, including a (fictional) book …

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Design and Desire – a Fly in the Ointment

Trente-trois — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:02:37 +0000

RABID — a film by Jen and Sylvia Soska — SPOILERS ⁓ Rose (Laura Vandervoort), her face slightly scarred from the long ago car accident that killed her parents, works for a fashion designer named Gunter (MacKenzie Gray) whose latest …

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The Severity of Abstract Ethics

Trente-trois — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:17:19 +0000

I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD – directed by Chad Archibald – SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …

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The Fall of the House of York

Trente-trois — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:35:53 +0000

HUMANE – directed by Caitlin Cronenberg – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is a locked room mystery with the victims alive at the start. Yusef (Joel Gagne) and Malik (Frankie Francois) arrive to relocate a grand piano for well-known news anchor …

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Where Fragments of Forgotten Peoples Dwell

Trente-trois — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:00:08 +0000

ENYS MEN – a film by Mark Jenkin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Thought-provoking and beautiful, ENYS MEN is set in April, 1973 on a deserted island off the Cornish coast, where a lone Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) monitors the status of …

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The Long Dark Night of the Soul

Trente-trois — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:36:20 +0000

WINTERTIDE – directed by John Barnard – SPOILERS ⁓ It is the ninety-eighth consecutive day of night, and dawn is not coming anytime soon. Something must have changed the Earth’s axial tilt, because no place remains dark for that long …

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Lepus – The Malice of the Moon

Trente-trois — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:15:36 +0000

RUN RABBIT RUN – directed by Daina Reid – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On her daughter Mia’s seventh birthday, a white rabbit appears in Sarah’s yard. Mia (Lily LaTorre), whose name means “lunar cycle” in the Noongar language, assumes it’s a …

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