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There are few adjectives that have seemingly lost their weight more when discussing a motion picture than when one describes a film as like a “nightmare.” Oft contributed to not only directors like David Lynch but the go-to descriptor for much of the horror genre (particularly as the genre evolves into what has been known as “arthouse horror”), the word has both lost its power and seemingly lost any definitive meaning. However, when a film like Mickey Keating’s Darling comes along, there’s nothing that makes more sense than to describe the film as akin to having a waking nightmare.

Darling tells the story of a young woman (Lauren Ashley Carter) who begins to house sit for a wealthy woman, played by the incomparable Sean Young. It’s a shockingly simple premise for what is an aesthetically daring piece of work, one that owes as much to a film...

Mickey Keating is a name that all horror fans are becoming increasing familiar with, thanks to films like Ultra Violence and Ritual. Up next he traps a sinister entity in Pod, which premieres next month at SXSW. Check out a… Continue Reading →

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Ritual is the second directorial effort of Mickey Keating but it seems that his first (titled Ultra Violence (2011)) didnt get any play. How this film ended up being one of the After Dark Films and distributed by Lionsgate is anybodys guess. This one is a stinker but the successful production and distribution seems to have helped Keating secure a couple of upcoming films including writer credits for The Night Stalkers (2014) and The Fixer () and another stab at the directors chair with Fallout Shelter (2014). It would be interesting to get the real story behind this film and its current status as there are a number of microbudget Indies that nobody will ever see and will never get this far and yet are far superior.