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The Overlook Film Festival Highlights, Part 2: The Hands of Orlac, Kill Your Lover, Dead Mail, Red Rooms
On more highlights from this year's horror-centric Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans.
Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
Simon started his career as an arts critic in high school, writing comics reviews for The Comics Journal. He conducted the cover interview with writer Robert Kirkman in issue #289. After writing film reviews for The New York Press and Slant Magazine, Simon wrote film reviews for the Voice, contributing feature interviews and capsule reviews for six years. He's currently working on a couple of book projects, including a history of movie gore (with his Guillermo del Toro's Devil's Backbone co-author Matt Zoller Seitz).
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On more highlights from this year's horror-centric Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans.
Our writer went to Overlook in New Orleans, and he's back to talk about the experience and give you a few genre films to watch out for.
An interview with horror filmmaker and showrunner Mike Flanagan on the tenth anniversary of "Oculus," Bollywood remakes, and the corrosive pull of religion.
A preview of this year's New York Asian Film Festival.
We asked ten contributors to pick three films from 2022 that they think everyone should see before making their top ten lists of the year. These are the choices of Simon Abrams.
A tribute to the star of The Omen and Tron.
An interview with Lloyd Kaufman, the co-founder of Troma Films, on the eve of the release of his last movie.
A preview of MoMA's retrospective on Larry Fessenden and his Glass Eye Pix movie studio.
A tribute to the late martial arts legend, Sonny Chiba.
A list of ten horror flicks to watch today, National Paranormal Day.