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BLACK PHONE 2 is a bloodier, emotional follow-up that gets bogged down in Christian messaging — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Staff Writer The supernatural becomes a vehicle for confronting the traumas we keep hidden, the ghosts that follow us long after our wounds have seemingly healed.

MJ's @sirendeathcult.bsky.social says, "BLACK PHONE 2 is a satisfyingly sweet sequel."

#BlackPhone2 is now playing in theaters.

Fantastic Fest 2025: BUGONIA is unexpectedly grounded for Yorgos Lanthimos—until it pulls the rug out from under you — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor Much of the film is a horrific realism, capturing the distaste and distrust that divides Americans, and hitting a little too close to home.

"The unique flavor of dark humor that permeates Yorgos Lanthimos’s filmography lends itself to a style of storytelling that teases apart the complexities of human nature."

Vannah Taylor @sirendeathcult.bsky.social reviews BUGONIA from #FantasticFest.

i would love to one day get invited to things :’)

Fantastic Fest 2025: MEAT KILLS is a symphony of screams and squeals that reminds us that we are what we eat — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor Put down your forks and knives and keep your eye out for the release of Meat Kills , one of the best of Fantastic Fest 2025.

MJ’s @sirendeathcult.bsky.social says, “Put down your forks and knives and keep your eye out for the release of what I would consider one of the best of the fest.”

#MeatKills had its world premiere at #FantasticFest25

dog with a vest on that says “nervous”

me when filmmakers actually read my reviews of their movies

Fantastic Fest 2025: A feverish girls’ trip spirals into a challenging revenge fantasy in Izabel Pakzad’s FIND YOUR FRIENDS — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor Find Your Friends asks you to not just find your friends, but to meet them where they are, to see their trauma, and scream through it together.

I love revenge flicks & I love when a film stands firm on the principle that women don’t have to be perfect beings to deserve justice! Check out my review of Izabel Pakzad’s FIND YOUR FRIENDS from this year’s Fantastic Fest
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The Adams Family conjures a poetic folk tale in MOTHER OF FLIES – Fantastic Fest 2025 Mother of Flies is haunting yet tranquil. The worlds that the Adams’ create are always moody, mysterious, and so cleverly constructed as to not show the seams of their impressively homegrown …

MOTHER OF FLIES was one of my favorites from Fantastic Fest & it might be my favorite Adams Family film 🪰
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still of Mia Goth as Elizabeth Lavenza in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein

oh we are so back

and that concludes fantastic fest 2025! #lastfourwatched

It’s fun having friends everywhere 🤗
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We’re bad at co-working but at least we’re CUTE @sirendeathcult.bsky.social

Meat does indeed kill 🐷
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A huge thanks to @jennferatu.bsky.social, @momoshaty.bsky.social, @theneonbanshee.bsky.social, @sirendeathcult.bsky.social, @nadinewhitney.bsky.social and everyone else who played a part in this beautiful set! ❤️🪓

5 films to be excited about at this year's Fantastic Fest — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor The largest genre film festival is back for its 20th year. Dedicated to providing a feast of thought-provoking, groundbreaking, and genre-bending films, Fantastic F...

Fantastic Fest kicks off in Austin, Texas next week.

From debilitating menstrual cramps to debilitating social media addictions, here are five genrebending films Vannah Taylor @sirendeathcult.bsky.social is looking forward to.

yes yes!!

omg ily 👉🏻👈🏻

i was trying to be normal about it 🥲

every day of my life

a shirtless Ethan Hawke holding a belt as The Grabber in the film The Black Phone

thinking about the creative decision to make the grabber kinda hot…

my tiktok feed lately has been entirely made up of videos about appalachia and i don’t know what to do with this information lol

for clarity, while i’ve only ever shared film critique/non-fiction writing, i’ve been trying to resurrect the creative writing muscles~

maybe i’ll keep catching these ideas, in the way Lynch described it, and hold onto them and find out what they mean later

lately, i have had random fleeting ideas that i have typed out (a few sentences, an interaction, a dream, just things that come to me that i feel compelled to write)—but a fully formed idea, a plot, a whole picture, still evades me

so excited to be going to my second Fantastic Fest! if anyone wants to work out a shared housing situation or lives in the Austin area and wouldn’t mind letting me couch surf—please let me know! 🤍🤍🤍

Portland Horror Film Festival: YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE is a fresh vampire romance — Moviejawn by Vannah Taylor, Associate Editor You Know What You Are is a queer vampire story about finding acceptance internally and within a found family.

MJ's @sirendeathcult.bsky.social calls YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE, " a fresh vampire romance that digs its fangs into the difficulties of finding acceptance–both from others and within ourselves"

#YouKnowWhatYouAre had its Pacific Northwest premiere @portlandhorror.bsky.social.

i love this. i feel like this is typically what i end up doing, i write the most burning thought i have and then it turns into a sort of stream of consciousness that i eventually go back to make coherent

the hardest thing for me, when it comes to writing (or really anything), is getting started…
~drop your words of wisdom for how you break the seal between your mind and the pages~✒️

yay!! omg see you there bestie!!!!

new wallpaper vibes 🩵

i’m gunna be sick