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#SinengPambansa Horror Plus Film Festival is no Oz, all Kansas

Be cautioned of three-quarters of this year’s edition of Sineng Pambansa Film Festival, brazenly subtitled with ‘Horror Plus’ like it had been last year with ‘Master’s Edition.’ Those who saw last year’s lineup of films will hear the vivid sarcasm to this statement. And if that previous fest had lost you confidence, ‘Horror Plus’ seems to exist strictly to establish this trajectory. Are you…

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Of the plethora of think-pieces that John Carpenter’s Halloween has inspired over the decades, one thought remains most astute of the masked killer Michael Myers. He is not the predator, nature is—because it has allowed his existence, this err. The scene towards the film’s end perfectly illustrates my point: Myers, faced unto his latest undoing, examines the corpse he has pinned so savagely to…