About 10 minutes into Chastity Bites I realized that I had a stupid grin plastered on my face. While this (stupid) grin wavered over the next...
Contemporary Korean cinema is awash with slick, violent thrillers and the audiences over there keep eating them up. I don’t blame them either. Most of their...
There was a lot of hype surrounding the You’re Next screening at Fantastic Fest 2011. Initially there was supposed to be two, then Lionsgate bought the...
W.W. Jacobs’ short story “The Monkey’s Paw” has been adapted a bazillion times since it was first published in 1902. Shows as diverse as The Simpsons...
After Dark Films’ new release Ritual opens with a warning of extreme violence, then lets us know that we have 30 seconds to leave before it...
limp. is the story of Mr. Grot (Eoin Quinn), an awkward man, and his relationship with a corpse. Talk about a love story doomed from the...
It seems like every Friday night, the channel formerly known as Sci-Fi airs an original flick parodying the monster movies of yore. They’re consistently horrible, but...
Hey do you guys remember 2013? That sunovabitch went by fast, didn’t it? As far as horror goes, I think it was a pretty solid year....
Fractional opens with psychiatrist John Hackett (Desmond Daly) bound to a chair with duct tape over his mouth. He’s in a darkened room, but there’s just...
Ghosts, demonic spirits, and the whole rainbow of monsters horror has come to embrace can take a hike. Nothing scares the hell outta me more than...
The press release for Teddy Schenck’s 7E proclaim it a “spine-tiggling thriller” “in the shadow of Rosemary’s Baby.” It is neither of those things. What it...
Anyone who’s a SOV horror fan knows the name Chester Novell Turner. Back in the mid-80s, Turner wrote and directed two no-budget films that have gone...
From producer Lucky McKee comes Jug Face. Hot damn is this one fantastic little horror film. Rooted in folk horror and southern gothic, Jug Face tells...
Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John’s first film, The Driller Killer, subverted the sexism found in most slasher flicks by offering a madman who targets...
I’m a sucker for single-setting thrillers in which folks have to figure out what got them there and how to get out. Typically everyone becomes paranoid...
One of the great things about anthology films is that if you’re not digging the current story, there’s another coming up shortly. The percentage of crap...
Ya gotta admit, the viral campaign surrounding The Upper Footage was pretty damn impressive. The filmmakers made up a bunch of phony NYC socialites and released...
Director Duncan Gibbins had his film career cut tragically short by the devastating 1993 Southern California wildfires. He was trying to save his cat from the...
20 years ago, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper collaborated on an anthology film called Body Bags. It was meant to be a television series – Showtime’s...
While Dark Star is technically John Carpenter’s first film, Assault on Precinct 13 is his first solo directing gig and the first to really feel like...
Saying that The Visitor is about a trans-dimensional battle between good and evil is barely coming close to explaining it. You’d be leaving out juicy moments...
Winner of the fan favorite award at the Big Bear Horror Film Festival in Fullerton, CA, House of Bad is a tense little chamber film about...
1995’s Embrace of the Vampire became a minor cult classic mainly because Alyssa Milano is naked for large chunks of it. But the film has a...
Talk about a feast of vengeance…Savaged, the new film from writer-director Michael S. Ojeda, takes the tried-and-true formula of the rape/revenge film and mixes it with...