American horror almost always exists in the shadow of American society; cinema can’t help but distill all our bad juju into finely concentrated, gruesome genre goo.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
Do cheating spouses, school bullies and lousy coworkers have bad juju coming to them?
The latter’s status as the most important creative figure in this Forest side, their talisman, is not under threat.
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Mark Carey,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
The artists used materials such as calligraphy, amulets, talismans, prayer beads and cloth, and combined them with techniques from modern painting and sculpture.
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Massumeh H. Toosi,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
Among the subjects of the projects are a teen threesome in North Macedonia that leads to a troublesome pregnancy, a shipwreck hiding a sacred amulet on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara, a crumbling blue bus in 1950s Turkey, and mysterious aunt in rural Serbia.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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