Author: Sean Parker
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Jason Trost is the best kind of genre filmmaker, making films that fans can get excited for in a multitude of ways. While his acting credits include many background roles in notable studio flicks (Scream 2, Rushmore, Crank 2, MacGruber, Hatchet III, Studio 666) he has used his directorial prowess to blend elements from the…
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Best Wishes to All is the deeply unsettling and disturbing gut-punch of a film we all need right now, and that’s not hyperbole. I first saw Yûta Shimotsu’s film, based on his short of the same name, at the Boston Underground Film Festival a couple of months back, and I left the theater stunned at…
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When news of The Ritual, a possession thriller from The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain director David Midell, was announced last year, my ears perked up hearing that Al Pacino and Dan Stevens would be sharing the horror movie spotlight. Stevens has been a genre film favorite, taking on an array of roles just last year, including Godzilla…
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Vertical Entertainment has really beefed up their film slate for 2025. Earlier this year, The Damned whisked us away to an isolated island of terror, then Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista got all western-fantasy in In the Lost Lands, and just last month, Josh Hartnett went all John Wick on a plane in Fight or…
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Train to Busan’s breakout badass Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-Seok) continues his action movie hot streak, following up his fourth Roundup franchise film (four more are on the way) with Holy Night: Demon Hunters. A rough and tumble brawler flick with a bit of a genre kick. Lee plays Ba Woo, a niche private investigator endowed…
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Indie horror projects often surprise me with the level of creative ingenuity on display. Many of these movies get overlooked by the broad majority of movie enthusiasts, but we–the Tubi hunters and physical media bargain bin super-divers of the genre—know there are more than a few diamonds in the rough just looking to be found…
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Watch out, David Howard Thornton, there’s a new killer clown on the block…errr… cornfield. Frendo the Clown steps off the pages of Adam Cesare’s book and onto the silver screen for a gory little slice of Mayberry terror. Clown in a Cornfield is now terrorizing moviegoers all over the country, claiming the fifth spot at…
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For the final bit of Salem Horror Fest coverage, a week after the festival has now concluded, I wanted to bring readers’ attention to Conor Soucy’s electrifying short film, The Conduit. Winner of the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Salem Horror Fest 8, The Conduit is a taut, white-knuckle experience that utilizes the…
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During one of the many film festivals I covered last year, a production still of a young First Nations Australian girl with long black hair and piercing white eyes standing in front of a curtain became one of the most haunting, artistic images ever to sear itself onto my brain. It’s a photograph that’s hard…
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If I were to share with you the list of my most anticipated films of 2025, Izzy Lee’s House of Ashes would be circling the top of that list. Izzy Lee is the kind of director with a fearless eye for horror, often taking a politicized issue and intelligently contorting it to something even more…