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Smoking out the rats
Chris Rock’s Saw experiment is a cathartic fan casting in Jigsaw’s playpen, featuring a dull band of corrupt police officers who befall befitting…
Armando Dela Cruz
Jul 22, 2021
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Sink your teeth in
In this week's Field Notes From Hell: Thoughts on The Batman, Fresh, the new Apple TV+ series, Severance, and the revamp of the newsletter.
Armando Dela Cruz
Mar 12
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Unwritten memoirs
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein star in 'The Nowhere Inn', a meta-"docudrama" that's equal parts parody and Lynchian fever dream.
Armando Dela Cruz
Jul 15, 2021
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Progressive throwback
Though far from perfect, Leigh Janiak's teen horror trilogy, Fear Street, sides with a townful of misfits and gives space for queer heroines.
Armando Dela Cruz
Jul 20, 2021
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When 'Prey' fights back
For a film that belongs to a franchise with a penchant for violence and frankly not much else, this new entry has surprisingly sensitive and new things…
Armando Dela Cruz
Aug 7
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Them, ensnared
In this week's Field Notes From Hell: Thoughts on the new Filipino thriller, 'Tenement 66', featuring impoverished tweens unwittingly robbing a…
Armando Dela Cruz
Jul 31, 2021
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A disturbing descent
In which a casual genre nut heads straight to a collision course against the dreaded disturbing movie iceberg graph that traumatized the people of…
Armando Dela Cruz
Aug 10
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Wayward times
In this week's Field Notes From Hell: Thoughts on the freshly wrapped EPIX series, 'From,' early raves for Ti West's 'X,' and new horror trailers.
Armando Dela Cruz
Mar 19
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The slasher-ification of 'Pretty Little Liars'
For better or for worse, HBO Max's slick, homage-heavy slasher reboot defies its CW roots, making for a 'Mean Girls'-esque teen drama with a truly…
Armando Dela Cruz
Aug 5
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Existential trapdoors
In this week's Field Notes From Hell, I tackle a J-horror blunder, the 2021 film, 'Cube.' Plus, what Marvel is doing right with 'Moon Knight.'
Armando Dela Cruz
Apr 9
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Field Notes From Hell: It begins...
My first dispatch details why I started Deep Cuts in the first place, new horror I've watched, and this week's movie, TV, and book recommendations.
Armando Dela Cruz
Jul 17, 2021
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Terrors from the deep
Looking for nautical horror films? Queue this set of thalassophobic nightmares from the world's coldest and darkest oceanic depths.
Armando Dela Cruz
Aug 12
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