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Directed by Blake Ridder, Manor of Darkness (2025) is a feature-length horror film which plays on satirical horror, borrowing from cliches within the meta-horror genre. Containing effective scares and well-built characters, the film grips viewers' attention both visually and narratively.

Pursued is one fascinatingly mixed bag of a film. Following the sudden death of her father, teenager Lark (Madison Lawlor) begins to suspect her mum’s new boyfriend, whom she’s never met, of being a murderer... until she doesn’t. When it comes to narrative intentionality, this is a truly confusing movie, and therefore slightly difficult to reckon with. What is set up here is not entirely understood until the payoff of the movie, and this is the result of screenplay and pacing