There’s been a recent trend in Korea of blending period dramas with horror, with zombie thriller Rampant and Netflix’s zombie series Kingdom taking advantage of the...
Editor’s Note: This TIFF review was originally published on September 12, 2019. ‘Wealth is finite’ seems to be a trend at TIFF this year, with movies...
Genre cinema can come from the strangest of places. One of the biggest surprises of TIFF this year was finding genre gems outside the Midnight Madness...
Less than a month after the news came out that Universal was cancelling the release of The Hunt, TIFF saw the release of not one, but...
Swamp Thing may not be as popular as Batman, but the vegetable monstrosity has always been at the forefront of comic book milestones. Right after Christopher...
With most revivals of beloved TV and film classics, the initial reaction usually falls somewhere between a cringe or a shrug. Rod Serling revolutionized television when...
A return to horror from buddy comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost should be cause for major excitement in the genre community, as Shaun of...
How to best describe Daniel Scheinert’s The Death of Dick Long? The new film by the co-director of Swiss Army Man had its world premiere at...
First and foremost, a confession. I’ve always had a thing against cockroaches and similar bugs. It’s not really a phobia, but a deep sense of disgust....
Matt Donato wrote a terrific piece last year about a trend in films of using genre to explore parenthood and its very real horrors, and 2019...
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* If there are two things that can summarize the horror genre in the 2010s, they...
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* After five games over the span of 21 years, the Fallout series has established itself...
On paper, Shudder’s new original series Deadwax (premiering Nov. 15) sounds like The Ring but just with a different object that kills its user. While that...
There is nothing worse than horror movies that spend too much time setting up the premise. You already know these kids will be fighting for their...
Filmmaker David Teixeira made his horror directorial debut last year with Girls Night, a twisted short film that is equal parts urban legend tale, and a...
You probably have heard about the hundred attendees who ran out of the world premiere of Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built at the...
S. Craig Zahler made a splash in 2015 with his horror-western Bone Tomahawk, then he crushed skulls and made Vince Vaughn a badass with his savage...
After making a splash with his stylish thriller about female obsession, Faultless, writer-director Sébastien Marnier now looks towards a bleaker and more provocative existential thriller that’s...
After starting with the one-two punch of the world premieres for The Predator and Halloween, it seems bizarre that the closing film of the Midnight Madness...
We are seeing an over saturation of the superhero film market. This year alone we’ve had a superhero film every two months. But those getting superhero...
This is one of those cases where it really pays to read more than a two sentence description of a film, or even to watch a...
You’d think a movie with the word “demon” in the title would lean a bit more into horror, but while the scares are almost non-existent, but...
What if you take the American frontier setting from The Witch, the themes of paranoia and isolation from It Comes At Night, but you strip them...
Going to a film festival can be tricky, because a lack of trailer means you can only rely on short and vague descriptions of films. “An...
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