You Are Not My Mother (2021)  [Women in Horror Month 2022]

Following the disappearance and return of her mother, a teenager decides she needs to know more about her mother and her family by extension. As she searches for information and herself, she also is tormented at school where other girls believe her family maybe more than she thinks. 

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Slapface (2022)

I’ve been following Jeremiah Kipp’s indie film career for a while now and it was only a matter of time before he managed to explode. “Slapface” is the adaptation of his great 2017 short film that expands on the premise and circumstances involving our main characters. While the movie is primarily a horror film with a folklore bent, it’s also a very stark, grim, and richly developed analyses of grief, loss, toxic masculinity, and the fall out that can stem from psychological abuse. It’s very much in the wheelhouse of “The Babadook” and leaves just as much of a mark when the credits roll.

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