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SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo

SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025  Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths.  Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like Donnie Darko, Happy Death Day, and the recent Until Dawn giving us entries filled with comedy, tragedy, gore and, of course, looped deaths in some of the most horror-ific ways possible. Haunted Mountains dives us deep into Taiwanese...

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SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!

SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he returns to the French manor house in northern France to be closer to the memory of his late French wife. Based on the...

SDIFF 2024 Conclave

SDIFF 2024 Conclave

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over the world convene in Rome to elect the new Pontiff, as shocking revelations and disturbances from the candidates come...