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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    INCOMPLETE CHAIRS (Japan, 2025) - REVIEW (opens the original)

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    On the outside, Kujo appears to be a brilliant, talented craftsman with a passion for making exquisite chairs. The kind of chairs you see at fashion shows but instinctively know not to sit on them because you’ll get a sore back.The inspiration he seeks for his latest artwork comes in the form of human bones and flesh. Thus, he decides to go on a murderous rampage, harvesting selected body parts from his various victims to create the ultimate piece of uncomfortable furniture - the human chair.The

  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    PROJECT SACRIFICE aka TUMBAL PROYEK (Indonesia, 2026) - REVIEW. (opens the original)

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    A brother and sister move with their mother to take up jobs at construction site for a new bridge where a series of unexplained and uninvestigated deaths have occurred. One of those deaths is their father, and they are there to uncover the truth.However, the truth involves sacrifices and rituals, lots of blood and a complete and utter lack of safety regulations on this national mega project.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SS8B!,f_auto,q_

  3. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    GHOST IN THE CELL (Indonesia, 2026) - REVIEW. (opens the original)

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    There’s trouble in Cell Block C. After a new inmate convicted of the violence murder of his boss arrives to Cell Block C, a series of identical mysterious murders begin to occur. The other inmates quickly realise that an evil entity has entered the prison who hunts for its victims using their aura.Those inmates, lead by Anggoro, need to work out why the spirit is at their prison, and how they can stop it before they all end up dead.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subst

  4. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    EVIL DEAD BURN (USA, 2026) - REVIEW. (opens the original)

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    After a violent car crash takes the life of Will - the oldest brother of a family whose grandfather was researching demonic possession and the infamous Book of the Dead - the surviving family members gather in their rundown family home to mourn his death.But the incantation that awakes the demons has been spoken, and these demons want to get their revenge on this family and destroy an ancient relic that’s in their possession that can stop them.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h

  5. Issue · Jul 28, 2026

    THE LAST FOOTAGE (Myanmar, 2026) - REVIEW. (opens the original)

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    Told from the perspective of a person using a pair of Live 4K Pro Camera Glasses whose footage is recovered from a forest, the movie follows a group of friends who visit an ancestral home in Wingabar Forest to turn it into a tourist resort. On arrival to the home, they meet an old woman who warns them the guardian spirit of the forest has awaken to punish them. And punish them it does!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gLMS!,f_auto,q_auto:g

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