Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend 2020, Day 3: Spare Parts (2020), For the Sake of Vicious (2020), Bad Candy (2020), Babysitter Must Die (2020), Cyst (2020)

Well, writing this up took a lot longer than my lazy ass expected.

Anyway, Day 3 of the Wicked Weekend opened with two Canadian films, one a grindhouse action flick and the other a home invasion horror movie, then returned to America with a pair of holiday horror flicks and a gross-out horror-comedy.

First up...

Spare Parts (2020)

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Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend 2020, Day 2: The Oak Room (2020), Benny Loves You (2019), A Ghost Waits (2020), Spell (2020), Butchers (2020)

Day 2 of Popcorn Frights' "Wicked Weekend" brings a gritty crime thriller, followed by a bloody and violent horror-comedy, followed by a supernatural romantic comedy that's only tangentially connected to the horror genre, followed by a voodoo flick that's clearly more than a little inspired by Jordan Peele, and finally, a backwoods slasher. How's that for mood whiplash?

To start...

The Oak Room (2020)

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Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend 2020, Day 1: Grizzly II: Revenge (1983), Smiley Face Killers (2020), The Retreat (2020), The Vigil (2019), They Reach (2020)

Just in time for Halloween, it seems as though Popcorn Frights is going all-out for round two, this time running the streaming festival themselves. For the first day, we get a long-lost killer bear slasher from the '80s with a cast of future A-listers, the latest from Bret Easton Ellis, a monster movie, a Jewish twist on supernatural horror, and a trip back in time to the late '70s.

To start...

Grizzly II: Revenge (1983)

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Review: To Your Last Death (2019)

 To Your Last Death (2019)

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Nightstream Film Festival, Day 4: Dinner in America (2020), Bloody Hell (2020)

I decided to close out the Nightstream Film Festival's final day with two of its more comedic offerings. The first one wasn't even a horror movie, but a gritty, punk rock romantic black comedy, while the second was a wild thriller that had a bit too many different stories going on at once but still managed to impress.

To start...

Dinner in America (2020)

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Nightstream Film Festival, Day 3: Reunion (2020), The Queen of Black Magic (2019)

Day 3 of the Nightstream Film Festival started with an occult horror film from New Zealand that felt like it had more ideas than it knew how to tell in ninety minutes, plus a return trip to Indonesia for a gory mess full of bugs and self-mutilation.

Reunion (2020)

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Nightstream Film Festival, Day 2: 32 Malasana Street (2020), My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020), May the Devil Take You Too (2020)

My picks for Day 2 of the Nightstream Film Festival included a Spanish ghost story, a lo-fi indie vampire movie, and pure mayhem straight out of Indonesia.

First up...

32 Malasana Street (Malasaña 32) (2020)

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