Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 20/10/2023 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 20/10/2023

[Film Review] Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

If you know me at all, you know that I love, as many people do, the work of Nic Cage. Live by the Cage, die by the Cage. So, when the opportunity to review this came up, I jumped at it.

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 15/05/2023 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 15/05/2023

[Film Review] Brightwood (2022)

Dane Elcar’s film Brightwood (screened at Panic Fest and Salem Horror Festival) does the seemingly impossible – it makes the outdoors seem claustrophobic.

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 20/06/2022 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 20/06/2022

[Film Review] Revealer (2022)

Late 20th century nostalgia is big in horror right now…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 15/02/2022 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 15/02/2022

[Film Review] Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

If there’s one thing you need to know about me before you read the rest of this review, it is that I LOVE Nicolas Cage…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 07/11/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 07/11/2021

[Film Review] Death Drop Gorgeous (2020)

The concept of camp has a long and storied past within the horror genre, and especially in the slasher…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 04/10/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 04/10/2021

[Film Review] Superhost (2021)

Horror has always held a mirror up to the concerns and social anxieties of its time…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 23/09/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 23/09/2021

[Film Review] Basket Case (1982)

At this showing, they had managed to scrounge up the original trailer for Basket Case, and I was instantly enthralled. I had to see this movie…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/07/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/07/2021

[Film Review] Superdeep (2021)

There are fewer things cooler than a horror premise that takes as its basis some facet of inadequately-explored reality…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021

[Film Review] The Retreat (2021) Enacts Gruesome Queer Catharsis

Every time there’s a horror movie about city slickers who take an ill-fated trip to the countryside, there has to be fucked-up deer imagery…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021

[Event Review] Panic Fest 2021: A Great Time for Some Sick Laughs

Panic Fest, held yearly as the Screenland Armour, is a mainstay in the Kansas City film scene, and thus an event that is near and dear to my heart…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 19/04/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 19/04/2021

[Film Review] Synchronic (2020)

For the last few years, films at the intersection of sci-fi and horror have been characterized by a particular brand of trippy visuals and sound design…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 16/04/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 16/04/2021

[Film Review] Meatball Machine (2005)

Meatball Machine pushes the limits of splatter in this grotesque science fiction romp…