Even in the age of streaming and YouTube, it’s always wise to have the classics on hand. Since there’s no denying The Twilight Zone is an...
Man, it’s weird to say that a movie is actually worse off without Stephen “We’re All Adults Here” Dorff. I don’t mean that as a jab...
I enjoyed Brett Simmons’ Monkey’s Paw (review) and thought it was an interesting take on a well-tread story. It had a really eerie atmosphere and great...
Stereo is a startling, cerebral thriller about crime, punishment, and the voices in our head. Written and directed by German filmmaker Maximilian Erlenwein, the film also...
Mick Taylor is back in all his glorious grit and gore with Wolf Creek 2! I really dug the first one back in 2005, so I’m...
The title and art for Jordan Barker’s Torment suggests some typical torture porn. To my relief, it’s much more in the psychological horror realm, with only...
Rusty Nail is back! Whether you want him to be or not! I’m not a big fan of the Joy Ride franchise. I thought the first...
Bobcat Goldthwait’s new film Willow Creek is a marvel. It’s a found footage movie, a somewhat tarnished word in genre films nowadays, that actually manages to...
Álex de la Iglesia’s last film, The Last Circus, blew me away with its dark and wholly unique vision (and its portly clown in a pope...
What’s cooler than being a hardboiled detective? A “memory detective,” duh! That’s what Mark Strong plays in the new psychological thriller, Anna. As a memory detective,...
It’s tough not to fall in love with a movie called WolfCop before even seeing it. Luckily, Lowell Dean’s new film delivers on the madness its...
Lucky Bastard is the directorial debut of Robert Nathan, who cut his teeth scripting police procedurals like Law & Order and Dragnet. Those credentials would suggest...
There’s a moment in Candyman director Bernard Rose’s new film Sx_Tape where I thought, “Oh shit, this is going in a direction I didn’t expect!” Within...
Writer-director Dante Tomaselli’s latest film Torture Chamber isn’t interested in a standard three act structure. For him, horror isn’t achieved through a pedestrian narrative with jump...
Axeman (aka Axeman at Cutter’s Creek) follows a group of 20-somethings as they reconnect at a remote cabin for some post-college partying. Within the first couple...
App is the first film to utilize “second screen technology,” which basically means a mobile device is recommended to get the full experience. Being a Luddite...
Lucky McKee has become damn near synonymous with female-centric horror. The filmmaker has created a solid resume that includes movies like The Woods, May, and The...
Whitewash is a Canadian thriller shot in the dense northern woods of Quebec during the dead of winter. That being said, this is one seriously cold...
Der Samurai is an impressive film outta Germany that just had its stateside debut at Tribeca. It’s a genre mixer that maintains a pliable tone throughout,...
It’s been 20 years since the bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found dead in a creek in the Robin Hood Hills of Arkansas. The subsequent...
About a year ago, Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam unleashed Borgman all up in the Cannes Film Festival’s guts. Now Drafthouse Films is finally releasing this...
If Woody Allen made a vampire flick, it might resemble Summer of Blood. Writer-director-actor Onur Tukel’s horror-comedy is a fresh satire on the vampire mythos, one...
Deni Villeneuve’s thriller Prisoners was one of my favorite movies of last year. Since then I’ve been eagerly awaiting his new film Enemy, which was filmed...
Writer/director Cary Hill was able able to fund his ’80s slasher throwback Scream Park a couple years ago thanks to Kickstarter. Since then it’s been kicking...