Hereditary has a pretty ballsy death in it that I don’t even want to spoil. So I won’t but bravo, Ari Aster. I’ll just talk about...
Assassination Nation opens with a trigger warning montage promising to offend everyone. While not every clip in the montage pays off as awesomely as you hope...
Danny McBride has perfected the endearing asshole character. We enjoy seeing Kenny Powers or Danny McBride (as himself) be unapologetic. In Arizona, he takes it to...
This take on the Lizzie Borden murders posits a sympathetic motive to Borden’s axe murders. By suggesting that her father was a homophobic rapist, Lizzie has...
How is it that Mandy is the first Nicolas Cage movie I’ve seen at Sundance. I’ve only been coming for eight years and he was doing...
Bushwick is the Birdman of apocalyptic survival movies. There are some cuts to cover the passage of time but the amount of action they pull off...
Every year at Sundance, there’s at least one movie, usually in the midnight section, that seems to revel in provoking walkouts. While I admire the subversive...
Jordan Peele made a big impression when he released the trailer to his horror film Get Out which nobody even knew he was working on. The...
As part of Sundance’s growing inclusion of television, the Midnight Episodics series showcased the first season of the digital series Snatchers. This horror-comedy is a total...
Wolf Creek set a high bar for Australian horror. Killing Ground is a lot more polished than the raw original Wolf Creek but captures the same...
San Diego Comic-Con proved to be a big weekend for horror. It helps that so many shows on television are horror. Bates Motel cast Rihanna as...
The Blackout Experiments is a documentary about a horror so messed up, they couldn’t have made it up. I watch horror movies because I like to...
Boy, a lot of the midnight movies were period pieces. Outlaws and Angels was a western, Under the Shadows was in the ’80s. 31 was 1976...
The Eyes of My Mother was getting a lot of buzz at Sundance and folks saying it was disturbing and scary. So I checked it out...
Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp ARE Yoga Hosers. It would be criminal if that’s not the poster and trailer. The Canadian convenience store clerks from...
Antibirth is a good old body horror movie. It’s got the suggestion of pregnancy, so you’re dealing with the undertones of a woman’s mixed feelings about...
It’s great to see a film shot and projected on film at Sundance. Too bad they didn’t know how to record sound. Half the locations drown...
31 is Rob Zombie’s The Running Man and it works. A group of touring performers (Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Jeff Daniel Phillips and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs)...
The premiere of Swiss Army Man reported a record number of Sundance walkouts. I still want to see the math on that because I don’t believe...
Under the Shadow really throws down the gauntlet for the Midnight movies at Sundance. It puts the mythology of another culture center stage and explores the...
Trash Fire is one harsh movie. In an age of studio horror where everything works out in the end, that is a blessing, but I shouldn’t...
In a way I applaud the producers of The Greasy Strangler for sticking to its filmmakers vision, audience be damned. It’s inexpensive enough it doesn’t need...
Just when you think monster movies have run out of new twists, we get a killer mermaid movie. Vampires and werewolves will always be eternal and...
The Sundance Film Festival midnight movie Grabbers can claim at least one thing we’ve never seen before. There has never before been a movie where the...
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