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DAIEI GOTHIC Volume Two
SFX UK
|December 2025
This mystery about a missing author plays like a mash-up of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone. Sam Neill is an insurance investigator tasked with locating Sutter Cane. The trail, impossibly, leads to Hobb's End, a town from Cane's novels.
Are events detailed in his latest manuscript like humanity transforming into monstrous form - becoming reality? Featuring the odd physical effect worthy of The Thing, and a wryly metatextual ending, the film riffs on the moral panics around the malign influence of culture on consumers - which may explain why it'
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