[Film Review] Rose: A Love Story (2020)
This beautiful and moving film is a quiet nod to the enduring power of love, and while aspects of Rose: A Love Story are truly terrifying, it is the relationship built within the story that offers the viewer a truly unique experience.
[Film Review] Blood (2023)
Blood stars Michelle Monaghan (Gone Baby Gone) as Jess, a mother and nurse recovering from substance abuse and making a new start after the end of her dysfunctional marriage by moving her daughter Tyler (Skyler Morgan Jones) and younger son Owen (an outstanding performance from Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) into her childhood home.
[Film Review] Next Exit (2023)
If the existence of ghosts, and therefore life after death, was proven, how would the world respond
[Film Review] Sorry About the Demon (2022)
In the world of horror film criticism and analysis, common discourse entertains the ‘what abouts’ of subgenres.
[Film Review] Bite (2022)
A film that can be considered a cross between Snatch and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sounds like a pretty good deal, and overall, director James Owen’s Bite takes bits from each film in a manner that doesn’t entirely feel like a retread, but also doesn’t quite hit the mark of an original genre film.
[Film Review] The Retaliators (2021)
The Retaliators feels like two movies wrapped into one…
[Editorial] Horror Filmmakers to Watch: Christian Bachini
IIn terms of innovation in short-form filmmaking, Christian “Kang” Bachini’s incredible Escalation stands out above the rest…
[Film Review] Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Now, for the Gen-Z set, Bodies Bodies Bodies twerks its way onto the scene with some of the funniest, smartly written, TikTok-fueled young adults to get hacked and slashed.
[Film Review] Glorious (2022)
It isn’t easy to pull off the single location horror film with any real sense of tension and dread.
[Film Review] When I Consume You (2022)
There is nothing in the world like an independent horror film that moves to the beat of its own drum. Shirking cliché and formula, When I Consume You offers a wholly unique experience for the viewer, requiring a bit of patience, and delivering heartbreaking terror.
[Film Review] Xpiation (2018)
In the dark, twisted universe of extreme horror, filmmakers can utilize extremity through violence and brutality to explore difficult themes through the subversive and taboo
[Film Review] The Sadness (2021)
Hitting a surprisingly mainstream audience with a wildly extreme film, Rob Jabbaz’s debut The Sadness is a cluster fuck of deviance and gore with a satirical and mean wink toward incel and r/niceguy culture
[Film Review] MEN (2022)
Alex Garland is a world builder and magician. He is a spellbinder. A masterful creator of complex characters and ominous mundanity…
[Event Review] Unnamed Footage Festival
It takes a lot of effort to really make it in the found footage world. For every The Blair Witch Project, there’s twenty lesser known and less successful attempts…
[Film Review] The Aviary (2022)
The Aviary is a surprisingly intriguing character study of the effects of psychological trauma and cult practices…
[Editorial] Horror Filmmakers to Watch: Nathan Crooker
I met writer and director Nathan Crooker at FilmQuest (see my rave review of the festival here) last November after watching his incredible short film #Nofilter
[Editorial] Horror Filmmakers to Watch: Craig Ouellette
What I’ve noticed the most about Craig Ouellette is his ability to build tension in such a short amount of time…
[Film Review] A God Without a Universe (2015)
A God Without a Universe, the 2015 release from Kasper Juhl, might possibly feature some of the most unforgivably deviant and chaotic characters written in some time…
[Editorial] Hearts of Darkness: A Letter to Béatrice Dalle: In Honor of la Femme & Gorgeous Villainy
Chère Béatrice, I remember the first time I saw your visage on screen. I was horrified. As the flame of the lighter just kissed the tip of your cigarette…
[Film Review] The Devil to Pay (2019)
From director and writer team Ruckus and Lane Skye (Becky) comes The Devil to Pay, a backwoods thriller…