Reviewed by Michael Erb

You’ve got to admit that Leatherface and his franchise have some serious longevity. They’ve survived four movies in the original series, two in the Platinum Dunes reboot franchise, and […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

No One Lives, the new film from Midnight Meat Train director Ryuhei Kitamura, is a seek-and-destroy formula slasher film that boasts joyously brutal kills and gallons of blood. […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

Sitting down to write a review of the Criterion Collection’s Naked Lunch Blu-ray, I thought about how I’d probably get nothing done if my laptop had a pulsating sphincter. The film, […]

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

Since the Trinity Killer arc wrapped up in season 4, Dexter has gotten progressively worse. Before the announcement of the 8th being the final season, it seemed like the show’s goal […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

Sometimes the sincerity and DIY spirit of an indie horror film can make you like it more than you should. Case in point: Texas filmmaker Larry Wade Carrell’s 2011 shocker Jacob, which […]

Lonely and disturbed Jacob Kell loved his little sister more than anything on earth. When tragedy strikes, Jacob retaliates the only way he knows how – and anyone who crosses his path will know there is no limit […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

I hope you’re sitting down, readers, because I have some bad news. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia does not take place in Connecticut at all. Nor is it about ghosts […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

In the first Cold Prey, a burly man slaughtered a group of friends in an abandoned hotel in the mountains of southern Norway with a pickaxe. Cold Prey II kicks in with the lone […]

Reviewed by Mike Ferraro

Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) play a couple about to open a new chapter in their relationship when they decide to move in together. Malcolm, of course, decides to […]

Reviewed by Mike Ferraro

Eduardo Rodriguez (the upcoming Fright Night 2) seems to be a dual-personality director who is certainly gifted in some areas of filmmaking, but lacks terribly in many others. […]

The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.

Reviewed by Mike Ferraro

It’s hard to really recommend a superhero film like this that isn’t a complete bore (like Thor), despite the fact that in certain areas, it does indeed soar. All rhyming aside, <a […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

“Trapped in a box” movies are inherently fun. Even if the characters aren’t all that interesting, it’s still entertaining to try to figure a way out before they can. Then we feel […]

Reviewed by Patrick Cooper

With the exception of Blood Simple and Mean Streets, few debut features in modern film are as impressive as Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Released in 1973 while the Vietnam War was […]

A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.

Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

MercurySteam’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, released in 2010, played like no Castlevania game that came before it, yet it still felt like it took place in the same universe. The series’ flagship European castles, […]

Jack (Peter Stebbings) and Liz (Sarah Manninen) are struggling to keep their family together. While the big city trembles under the terror of a serial killer, Jack and Liz have just moved to the small summering […]

When a young woman is brutally killed by an intruder, her husband and estranged father conspire to bring her back from the dead with the help of a mysterious desert dweller. Soon after she awakens, she begins to […]