In the tradition of the criminally underseen My Little Eye, indie effort Alone with Her tells its guy-meets-girl, guy-stalks-girl, guy-installs-cameras-all-over-girl’s-apartment, […]

You know, as a horror nut and an indie sympathizer I get saddled with sitting through a LOT of crap. That’s just part of the ballgame. Sure, there are always a few thrilling diamonds in the rough – but for every […]

On Friday the 13th (and two weeks before Halloween), the Starz movie channel will premiere its documentary, “Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film”. Based on the book of the same name by Adam […]

One of the strangest major releases I’ve ever seen, M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water” is a genre-defying, form-snubbing plunge into the overly sentimental, proudly nonsensical world of bedtime stories. A […]

Just a warning up-front here: there are tons of spoilers in this review, because, well… it’s a remake.

This is a tough one, folks. Because while Alexandre Aja’s remake of Wes Craven’s “The Hills Have Eyes” […]

You know, I have half a mind to pull out my old review of the original “Final Destination” and post it here instead of bothering to write a review of the mind-numbingly derivative “Final Destination 3″ – it’s […]

In this review I am going to give away a terrible secret:

I thoroughly enjoyed “Saw II”.

Since I thoroughly trounced the original film a year ago, I’ll probably spend most of this review justifying why […]

Appropriately enough, “A History of Violence,” hits like a loud, open-palmed slap on the face: this is a near-perfect film that somehow manages to be confounding, hilarious, shocking, infuriating, and enormously […]

From what I can tell, Emily Rose died from a terminal case of bad screenwriting.

A precocious demonic-possession-thriller-cum-courtroom-drama, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is a film whose good intentions serve […]

For all its lofty ambitions, “Eternal” is just about my least-favorite kind of horror movie: the “gorgeous and boring” kind. You know the kind I mean – those horror films that look like issues of Architectural […]

ZERO out of Five Skulls

To endure ‘Chaos’, keep repeating: “It’s only a ripoff… it’s only a ripoff…”

Okay, I’m thoroughly confused. Because it feels like I just sat through a remake of “Last House on the […]

For those folks who didn’t ride the short but powerful J-Horror juggernaut a few years back but tend to catch the American remakes, “Dark Water” may be confusing. So let me clear things up: no, this is not simply […]

I’ll say this: I can’t remember being as flat-out scared in a movie theatre auditorium as I was when watching Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds”. The movie blazes out of the gate and runs hellbent across the […]

Whether or not you enjoy the French slasher film “High Tension” will be dictated by exactly 2 things: your ability to withstand copious, relentless doses of brutal violence, and your willingness to ignore the […]

ZERO out of Five Skulls
Hear that “clunk”? That’s the sound of the bar hitting the floor. In a shocking display of poor judgment (and an apparent attempt to dispute the whole “hindsight is 20/20″ thing), the […]

A truly great film (yes, Virginia – even a horror film) will have you so wrapped up in its mystery, its characters, its beauty, or its message that you won’t want to take the time to breathe until the credits […]

While it may not be anything revolutionary, the new indie horror-mystery “Reeker” is a fun, clever creeper that manages to squeeze humor, gore, and metaphysical intrigue into a tight, entertaining little package. […]

It’s no secret that we’re in the middle of an apocalypse of wet, stringy-haired girl ghosts who threaten the very fabric of our universe with their refusal to stay in the tub, the well, or whatever the hell else […]

A dense, involving, and surprisingly nasty serial-killer tale from Germany, “Antibodies” manages to avoid surface comparisons to other “loony on a soapbox” epics like “Seven” and “Silence of the Lambs” by focusing […]

Packed with some of the most eye-popping images to hit screens this year, the body modification documentary “Modify” makes Extreme Makeover look like Romper Room. A brief but ambitious look at the various ways in […]