Author: JP Nunez


  • Five PG and PG-13 Horror Classics

    Whatโ€™s your reaction when you hear that an upcoming horror movie is going to be rated PG-13? If youโ€™re 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…

  • Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Unleashes a New Ice Age in the Big Apple

    Iโ€™ve 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 โ€œreal-lifeโ€ Ghostbusters appear at my birthday party one year. So…

  • Late Night with the Devil Lives up to the Hype

    Iโ€™ve 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 wasnโ€™t able to catch it at any…

  • Exhuma Shows Why Some Secrets Should Stay Buried

    If youโ€™re not familiar with Well Go USA, you need to remedy that. Theyโ€™re one of the best genre distributors out there, and they especially excel at bringing Korean films to the States. For example, theyโ€™ve introduced American audiences to modern classics like Train to Busan and The Wailing, and just last month, they gave…

  • Finding Human Dignity in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    Youโ€™d be hard-pressed to find a more dementedly sadistic horror movie than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sure, the film isnโ€™t 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. Itโ€™s a visual and psychological assault on our sense…

  • Sheeps Clothing Is a Scathing Indictment of Religious Hypocrisy

    To riff on the opening line of another recent review of mine, horror and religion go together like peanut butter and jelly. Itโ€™s a classic combination thatโ€™s 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,…

  • Imaginary Turns a Childhood Staple into a Soul-Sucking Demon

    Iโ€™m always up for a new Blumhouse film. Sure, Blumhouse has their fair share of stinkers just like any other studio, but theyโ€™ve 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. Theyโ€™ve more than earned the benefit of…

  • H. P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones Pays Tribute to the Master of Cosmic Horror

    Iโ€™m 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 Iโ€™ll watch just about anything adapted from his works. In fact, Iโ€™m always on the lookout for great new Lovecraftian horror, so when…

  • The Sympathetic Yet Uncompromising Morality of birth/rebirth

    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…

  • Frogman Has the Makings of a New Cult Classic

    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, Iโ€™m 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…