‘Purgatory Jack’ Salem Horror Fest 2024 Review: An Overambitious Look At The Afterlife

Editor’s note: This review contains mentions of suicide.

The simultaneous fear and insatiable curiosity about what happens after death fuels art to this day. There are innumerable interpretations of Heaven and Hell. But the secret third option of Purgatory rarely receives the same kind of dedicated love, apart from the poet Virgil, No Exit, and The House that Jack Built. The Butler Brother’s Purgatory Jack r

After originally being set to open the Venice International Film Festival in 2023 and a long delay for its release, we have finally made it to the official arrival of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist. The tennis-centered sports relationship drama features Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, who turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.


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The People’s Joker is officially free and ready to make anyone that lays eyes on it transgender: a promise from mastermind Vera Drew herself. For the sake of an extended diatribe, I won’t get into the protracted copyright situation that Drew and the film were embroiled in–let’s be honest, the film is way more interesting than a legal situation–but it’s certainly added to the mythos of The People’s Joker. Whenever the film appeared on festival line-ups, it felt like a creature breaching containme