Not to carp on about it, but the new wave of indie arthouse horror, but has really tapped into something primal in our culture. Using formal rigor and a kind of patience that’s the opposite of jump scares, this new movement is bound by its collective desire to use atmospherics to unsettle us emotionally and psychological on a much deeper level. It’s a different kind of fear and one not traditionally scary in the boo!

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KARLOVY VARY – One of the toughest things in life is to realize you are losing a connection to a close friend, especially a best friend. That’s the central theme in Darren Thornton’s “A Date for Mad Mary” which strangely premiered without enough pre-screening fanfare at the 51st Karlovy Vary Film Festival. But something tells us the buzz on this impressive first film will slowly start to make its way across the indie world.

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