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 The latest edition of the Tribeca Film Festival comes to a close in New York City, leaving behind another strong year for new releases, retrospectives, and genre events. Tribeca 2024 featured the new release of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s ultra-dark The Devil’s Bath, the raucous slasher AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead, the sticky sci-fi horror comedy The A-Frame, and the dusty neo-noir horror A Desert, to name a few of this year’s genre offerings. But the festival’s genre offerings don’t stop at the midnight programming, a section dedicated to horror and high-energy genre cinema. Director: Roberto Minervini Writer: Roberto Minervini Stars: Duncan Vezain, Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon Below is a roundup of brief reflections and short reviews of Tribeca’s narrative films that either delve into horror or crash into it in surprising ways. Director Thordur Palsson, who co-wrote the script with Jamie Hannigan (“The Woman in the Wall”), blends 19th-century survival thrills with a...