Depictions of mental illness are common in film, especially in the horror genre. They’ve become even more prevalent in recent years as filmmakers have used their...
Having started SXSW with a family-friendly horror film (of sorts) that didn’t quite hit the mark, it’s invigorating to end the Austin-based festival with another family-friendly...
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with...
We all handle trauma in different ways. Some of us self-isolate, some seek the comfort of others and some seek professional help. There are many other...
Mickey Keating is no stranger to homage. You can feel the impact of The X-Files and Invasion of the Body Snatchers in Pod (review). Roman Polanski’s...
If there’s one trend among the genre films screening at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, it’s that they’ve all got a message to deliver. Some have...
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.” That quote by The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood is what opens Nick Gillespie‘s Paul...
Don’t let the image above fool you. Jay Baruchel‘s(!) Random Acts of Violence is not a fun road trip horror-comedy. It is a brutal and merciless slasher that...
Over the last decade, ridesharing has become a part of our everyday lives. We don’t think twice about calling an Uber or a Lyft to get...
Adam Egypt Mortimer‘s (Some Kind of Hate, the “New Year’s Eve” segment in Holidays) Daniel Isn’t Real might just be the best horror movie playing at the SXSW Film...
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so stupid and so aware of that stupidity that you can’t help but be won...
Editor’s Note: It is nearly impossible to discuss In the Shadow of the Moon without discussing its basic premise. This may constitute as a spoiler for...
If you were to ask 100 people to name the gayest horror film ever made, 99 of them would probably respond with A Nightmare on Elm...
Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz is no stranger to disturbing narratives, contributing to the New French Extremity movement with his controversial film Calvaire back in 2004....
Well, there you have it: the possible conclusion of the Scream franchise, which will be remembered as the television equivalent of a wet fart in the...
The decision to reboot Scream: The Series was an odd, if not entirely unexpected, one. The first two seasons, which aired on MTV in 2015 and...
Casting an actor or actress against-type is always a gamble. Sometimes it works out (Robin Williams in One Hour Photo) and other times it doesn’t (Keanu...
Writer/director Richard Bates, Jr. has had a roller coaster of a film career. After bursting on to the scene in 2012 with the exceptional Excision, he followed...
You’ve got to hand it to Porno: it lays it all out for you in the title. It is an unapologetic, gratuitously violent and sexual B-movie that aims to...
In 2011, Lucky McKee unleashed The Woman on the world. That film was a sequel to the 2009 film Offspring and now, eight years later, the saga of The...
Ah, the black comedy. A film genre that so many filmmakers attempt but so few succeed at. There is something about merging comedic elements with dark...
It couldn’t have been easy to follow up Get Out, arguably the best horror film of 2017, with another horror film. Expectations are mighty high and all...
We’ve been long overdue for a new Christmas horror anthology. The last one released was 2015’s better-than-you’d-expect A Christmas Horror Story (review), so it seems appropriate that...
Who hasn’t thought about getting a tattoo before? The idea of permanently inking something on your body is tempting to some and revolting to others. Some...
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