Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Book Review] Beyond the Pale Motel (2014)

Francesca Lia Block's books are always a mix of light and dark, magic and brutality. Best known for her Weetzie Bat young adult series, her work often illuminates both the grimness and glitter of Los Angeles…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 06/09/2021

[Film Review] Bloodthirsty (2020)

The independent horror scene is rife with new concepts and explorations of old lore, from vampires to werewolves…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 02/09/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 02/09/2021

[Film Review] Lake Mungo (2008)

The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby picked out Lake Mungo as one of the scariest movies ever…

Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 31/08/2021

[Book Review] My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)

Stephen Graham Jones made a big splash last year when his award-winning novel The Only Good Indians hit shelves…

Tiffany Aleman / Contributor 30/08/2021 Tiffany Aleman / Contributor 30/08/2021

[Film Review] Night of the Living Dicks at the Fantasia International Film Festival is a Fun Horror-Comedy About Misogyny

There's a lot of dicks in the Night of the Living Dicks (2021). They come in all shades and sizes: the harassers, the hateful, the patriarchal, the underhanded, the blowhards…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 30/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 30/08/2021

[Film Review] Hall (2020)

Hall (2020) follows a group of strangers in a hotel, all with their own lives and problems, taken unawares by an unnamed virus…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 30/08/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 30/08/2021

[Film Review] Demonic (2021)

Neill Blomkamp crashed onto the scene with his 2009 sci-fi horror film District 9, a found footage style dystopic nightmare that examined the effects of xenophobia and societal disintegration through insectoid invasion…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 28/08/2021

[Book Review] Tomie (1987)

Manga artist Junji Ito, one of the pioneers of modern horror in manga, kick started his career with Tomie…

Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 26/08/2021 Marisa Mercurio / Contributor 26/08/2021

[Film Review] Jakob’s Wife (2021)

Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton) simmers in a pew, quietly disdainful of her husband. When Reverend Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden) proselytizes, “He who loves his wife loves himself,” it reeks of hypocrisy…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021

[Film Review] Mosquito State (2020)

In the tradition of providing social commentary through horror cinema, director Filip Jan Rymsza tackles Wall Street and the U.S. financial crisis of 2008 through body horror and aural assault in the upcoming Shudder release Mosquito State…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 26/08/2021

[Film Review] Don't Look Now (1973)

Some of the most memorable modern horror movies (including À l'intérieur, The Invitation, The Babadook and Hereditary) bloom around characters' grief. ..

Rabia Sitabi / Contributor 25/08/2021 Rabia Sitabi / Contributor 25/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Tokyo Revengers

Tokyo Revengers or Tōkyō Ribenjāzu (東京リベンジャーズ’) brings the newest craze in manga to the big screen in full-throated live-action…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - The Last Thing Mary Saw

Mary (Stefanie Scott) and Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman) are young and in love. Both beautiful, enigmatic, intelligent women… and therein lies the problem…

Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021 Elizabeth Bishop / Senior Contributor 24/08/2021

[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - Midnight

When discussing foreign horror/thrillers, South Korea is almost instantly most genre-fans first thought. In the last 20 years, they have arguably produced some of the greatest…

Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021 Mae Murray / Contributor 24/08/2021

[Book Review] Velvet Was the Night (2021)

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) transports readers to Mexico City on June 10, 1971, the day of the Corpus Christi Massacre…

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 19/08/2021

[Book Review] Tinfoil Butterfly (2019)

Emma is on a mission to see the Badlands, a mountainous stretch of rocky terrain in South Dakota. Along the way, she must contend with both murderous strangers and the ghosts of her own past…

Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021 Lakkaya Palmer / Contributor 14/08/2021

[Book Review] Love Sickness (2021)

Lovesickness is one of Junji Ito’s lesser-known titles - Tomie and Uzamaki are the most famous - but Lovesickness certainly rivals them in terms of storytelling…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 13/08/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 13/08/2021

[Film Review] Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)

While ghost stories, possessions, and acts of supernatural wrath might dominate the horror genre, there’s something especially chilling about films…

Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 10/08/2021 Ariel Powers-Schaub / Senior Contributor & Admin Assistant 10/08/2021

[Film Review] Bleed With Me (2020)

How does it feel to be in a position to help others? How does it feel when you need to accept help?

Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/08/2021 Liz DeGregorio / Senior Contributor 09/08/2021

[Film Review] False Positive (2021)

American comedian and actress Ilana Glazer is best known as the co-creator of Broad City, a web series that grew into a popular American comedy…