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Get ready for a night of chilling excitement as Texas Horror Cult proudly presents:

🎬 The Texas Horror Cult Film Festival 🎬

🏛️ Historic Texas Theatre

📅 Monday, October 23rd

Prepare to be captivated by the eerie and thrilling world of horror as talented film teams from across Texas unveil their spine-tingling creations. They've toiled relentlessly for 6 weeks, crafting their very own bone-chilling short films, and now, it's time to witness their horrors on the BIG screen!

🌟 What to Expect:

👻 16 Different Short Films (5-8 minutes each)

🕯️ An unforgettable night of Halloween Terror

🧟‍♂️ Reindeer Manor Haunted House's ghouls haunting the premises

You could have given me a thousand tries and I never would have guessed this was a Friedkin movie. There's nothing here that distinguishes it from any other creature horror. The only tip off is the synth score. The premise itself is unique though, as a killer tree must be fed babies by some kind of driad to keep her alive. There's a few pretty insane kills here, and the ending is intense, but not a lot else going on that holds your interest.

⭐ ⭐ 1/2 out of ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

It's pretty crazy to me that during the 70s and 80s retarded and deformed people were made to be monsters in so many horror movies. I can only imagine being a kid and horror fan back then seeing a retarded person in real life probably scared the shit out of you. Directors would just get a dumpy guy, make him stumble around in a pair of dirty underwear, tell him to grunt a lot and voilà, a living inbred nightmare. It's lazy and pretty cruel and I really don't care for this trope. Having said that, this film is pretty PG for the first 3/4s of its runtime, outside of a brief peeping tom nude scene. The last quarter though delivers the goods, and I was surprised at the genuine emotion it conveyed at the end. Both Lassick and Goldoni give performances better than this film deserves, and though there's barely any fx work to speak of, the atmosphere and tension make up for the budgetary constraints.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ out of ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐