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This week on “Deja View,” host Jake Leary sits down with Life & Culture Editor Kara Bowen to talk about “Suspiria” 2018 and why neither of them will think of dance the same way again.

Previous years have featured films with more classic horror themes, complete with blood, guts and gore. But, at this year’s festival, the program deviates from its typical grisly lineup.

One frightful night was enough; like its ghoulish mascot, the “Halloween” franchise should have been killed long ago.

It’s a film that’s full of wonderful, creepy ideas that are either left half-explored or take ridiculous turns in the third act.

It’s an unpleasant movie that successfully tells the story Levinson set out to make, but that narrative is too grotesque and cruel to enjoy.

Ithacan writers review a selection of summer’s biggest blockbusters and most complicated arthouse films.

Fear permeates every scene. The audience members, mirroring the characters, sit uncomfortably in their dread.

However unfortunate it is that this film isn’t original or riveting, it does receive one accolade: the ability to make the audience laugh.

It’s encouraging to see a horror film both so visceral and so unequivocally frightening.

Needless to say, Steven Soderbergh is an experienced filmmaker, and his new horror film “Unsane” shows he can excel in any genre.

Instead of being a bold take on the masked-murderer-by-the-lake trope, “Prey at Night” is a hollow shoutout to better films.

Dabbling in several genres without committing to any of them, “The Cloverfield Paradox” feels incomplete, cobbled together and woefully unsatisfying.