Julius Avery’s Overlord has been the subject of much online chatter over the past year. Announced just last year, the film was thought to be the...
Queer slasher films aren’t a hot commodity in this day and age. The last high-profile entry in the sub-genre was the film Hellbent, and that didn’t exactly...
Films set in one location can be a tricky thing to pull off. After all, how do you keep your audience captivated for 90 minutes if...
When a film’s description includes the phrase “inspired by a Twitter conversation,” you’d be forgiven for being wary of what you’re about to watch. Thankfully, the meta...
Indian horror cinema hasn’t made much of an impression on American audiences over the course of its history, but a film like Tumbbad should aid the process a...
Every year at Fantastic Fest, there is one film that flies under the radar and completely takes you by surprise. Richard Shepard‘s (The Matador, Dom Hemingway)...
Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez has written some incredible films, but he has never been given a shot at directing. Repeatedly turned down by several production companies to...
Superhero movies are not exactly a rarity in today’s film landscape, so it’s always a treat when a film tries to tackle the genre in a...
We all know the guy who never really left high school. He was the most popular boy in school and he fully intends to hang on...
Slasher films are a dime a dozen nowadays, so it’s always a treat when one gets released. There were high hopes walking into Jenn Wexler‘s The Ranger...
Every year it seems like we get one horror film out of the festival circuit that gets called “the best/scariest horror film of the year.” This...
Blood Fest aims to be a self-aware meta-horror comedy in the vein of Scream or The Cabin in the Woods, but where those films succeeded in their attempts to lampoon...
What would you do if the person you married isn’t who they said they were? That is the question that Colin Minihan‘s (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial) What Keeps...
Three years ago Blumhouse released Unfriended to raised eyebrows and chuckles. After all, how could a horror film told entirely on one teenage girl’s laptop be any good,...
Horror musicals have never been a hot commodity in the film industry. There is something about a horror musical that just isn’t easy to market to...
Everyone loves a good haunt. But who are the people behind them? That is one of the questions that Jon Schnitzer’s documentary Haunters: The Art of the...
If Darren Aronofsky’s superb mother! (our review) hadn’t just been released, it would be easy to say that Yorgos Lanthimos‘ (The Lobster, Dogtooth) latest film, The Killing of a Sacred...
Luke Shanahan’s Rabbit is the latest in a long list of films that attempt to explore the connection between twins, which has long been a fascination with...
I’m going to do something I have never done before in any of my reviews, and that is tell you not to read it. I am...
Though it could use a good polish, strong performances by a talented cast help Mr. Mercedes overcome some minor pacing issues, making for one good Stephen King...
Ask and you shall receive. When Prometheus was announced back in 2009, audience expectations were through the roof. The end result was an interesting but flawed film that...
Much fuss has been made about Daniel Espinosa’s Life in the past month or so. When the trailer was released, people criticized it of being an Alien ripoff. Last week,...
Depending on how much time you have, it’s not possible to cover every film at a film festival, which means that a potentially amazing film can...
One of the tricky things about being a film critic is that you have to train yourself to be as impartial as possible when reviewing a film....
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