Whatโs your reaction when you hear that an upcoming horror movie is going to be rated PG-13? If youโre like most genre fans, that kind of news most likely makes your anticipation for the film plummet. You probably start to think that the studio has watered down the violence and the scares just so they…
Iโve been a huge fan of the Ghostbusters franchise ever since I was a little kid. I love the original two movies and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (although I never saw the remake), I watched the animated series back in the day, and I even had the โreal-lifeโ Ghostbusters appear at my birthday party one year. So…
Iโve been aching to see Late Night with the Devil for a while now. I first got wind of the film when it was making its rounds on the festival circuit last year, and the positive buzz it garnered made it an absolute must-watch for me. Unfortunately, I wasnโt able to catch it at any…
If youโre not familiar with Well Go USA, you need to remedy that. Theyโre one of the best genre distributors out there, and they especially excel at bringing Korean films to the States. For example, theyโve introduced American audiences to modern classics like Train to Busan and The Wailing, and just last month, they gave…
Youโd be hard-pressed to find a more dementedly sadistic horror movie than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sure, the film isnโt particularly gory, but despite that lack of on-screen blood and guts, the insanity of the Sawyer family still hits you like a ton of bricks. Itโs a visual and psychological assault on our sense…
To riff on the opening line of another recent review of mine, horror and religion go together like peanut butter and jelly. Itโs a classic combination thatโs given us some of the greatest horror films of all time, like The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, and The Witch, so when I first heard about Sheeps Clothing,…
Iโm always up for a new Blumhouse film. Sure, Blumhouse has their fair share of stinkers just like any other studio, but theyโve also put out some of the best horror movies of the past decade and a half, like Paranormal Activity, Get Out, and The Black Phone. Theyโve more than earned the benefit of…
Iโm a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft. His proclivity for esoteric cults, horrors beyond human description, and ancient creatures far older than mankind resonates with me on a deep level, so Iโll watch just about anything adapted from his works. In fact, Iโm always on the lookout for great new Lovecraftian horror, so when…
2023 was a great year for modern takes on classic monsters. For example, Renfield, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter put fun new spins on the classic Dracula story, and The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster was a touching remix of Frankenstein. But in my opinion, one 2023 reimagining stands head and shoulders…
I love cryptids. When I was a kid, I read books about things like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster all the time, and even now, Iโm still a big fan of TV shows like Monsterquest and Destination Truth. So naturally, when I first got wind of Frogman, I was instantly intrigued. Not only did…