In the vein of the classic slow burn horror films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gore Verbinski’s (The Ring, the first three Pirates of the...
Another January brings another wave of subpar horror films, and this week’s The Bye Bye Man is no exception. The once R-rated film was originally scheduled for an...
Possession films have had a rough go of it recently. With the exception of The Last Exorcism and The Conjuring (and maybe The Taking of Deborah Logan), there haven’t...
It has been 10 years since Kiyoshi Kurosawa unleashed a horror film unto the world (2006’s Retribution), and even longer since his smash hits Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001). He...
Director Mike Mendez has recently made a name for himself making schlock direct-to-DVD horror films, and he’s damn good at it. He has found a formula that...
Undoubtedly many of you probably heard that Split, the latest offering from M. Night Shyamalan had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX earlier this week....
What will happen when aliens land on Earth? That is just one of the many questions posed in Denis Villeneuve’s (Prisoners, Sicario, Enemy) latest film Arrival, a science...
Sometimes you can tell when a movie is made just for you. It contains everything that you like in a movie and satisfies you from beginning...
17 years ago, The Blair Witch Project took the world by storm and redefined the horror genre. While that film was met with critical acclaim and earned back...
The folks over at Relativity Media has had a rough go of it recently. After declaring bankruptcy last summer and emerging from it back in March,...
This review was originally posted on March 12, 2016 following the film’s world premiere at the SXSW Conference & Festivals. SXSW got off to a rollicking good start...
Adapting a short film into a full-length feature can prove to be a troubling task. All too frequently, there just isn’t enough material to mine out...
“Beauty isn’t everything; it’s the only thing,” proclaims a character midway through Nicolas Winding Refn’s (Drive, Only God Forgives) newest film The Neon Demon. Refn has taken...
The Conjuring was the surprise hit of the summer of 2013, grossing $137 million domestically. That is a pretty astounding feat for an R-rated horror film released...
After having its world premiere at the 30th Annual SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals last month, Hush comes to us courtesy of Netflix, who wisely snatched...
Mickey Keating’s Carnage Park comes to us just six months after the premiere of his previous film Darling at Fantastic Fest (you can read my review of that...
Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word (formerly just The Last Word) is a stupid movie. That may seem like shallow criticism but it is in fact a stupid movie...
When writer-director Babak Anvari’s film Under the Shadow premiered at Sundance back in January, it quickly became one of the most talked-about films of the festival. The...
Pet has been described as being in the vein of Hard Candy and Gone Girl. It doesn’t exactly have the wit or intelligence of those two films, but what it lacks in those...
Jack Goes Home comes to us courtesy of actor Thomas Dekker, who wrote the film 10 months ago over the course of three weeks. The film had...
“Because it was necessary.” This is the haunting reply 12-year-old Morgan Geyser gives when she is asked why she and 12-year-old Anissa Weier stabbed their best...
One of the sleeper films at this year’s SXSW festival was Kasra Farahani’s The Good Neighbor, a psychological drama with an understated, yet no less impressive turn from renowned...
Ti West returns to us after a two year absence to bring us his new Ti Western (sorry, I couldn’t resist) In a Valley of Violence, a...
I Am Not a Serial Killer is being marketed as a thriller, which is a bit misleading. The film is more or less a thriller combined with an...
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