• The Shade Follows a Young Man Plagued by Tragedy and Trauma

    I’ve had my eye on The Shade for a while. I first heard about this film a few months ago when I saw the trailer, and I thought it looked pretty interesting. I immediately put it on my to-watch list (yes, I keep an actual list), so you can imagine my excitement when I received…

  • Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Trespassers (S1E5)

    Before we get into this week’s episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, I’ll be frank with you, I’ve never understood algorithms. You like a few photos of furries on Twitter and somehow you’re served countless photos of furries strewn between UAP/UFO news. (The furries thing is a joke, but I still don’t understand how…

  • The Substance Gruesomely Roasts Impossible Beauty Standards

    Hype is a dangerous thing. It can ruin even the best of movies, so when The Substance started garnering rave reviews, I tried my best to remain cautiously optimistic. But I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t easy. This is being hailed as one of the best horror films of the year, and one critic…

  • Our Reality is Quinn Armstrong’s Fresh Hell Trilogy

    In the spirit of Fear Street, or The Dark Pictures Anthology games, comes the Fresh Hell Presents, three back-to-back releases from writer/director Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills). Armstrong has taken a trio of recurring horror themes to form an informal trilogy loosely connected through their location and a few scenes. The first film on the ambitious…

  • The Deserving Turns a Familiar Horror Template on Its Head

    As a hardcore horror fan, I watch a lot of innocent people get tortured, tormented, and killed by everything from otherworldly monsters to little old ladies. That’s just how the genre typically works, but every once in a while, a film like The Deserving flips the script on us. This time, the killer is the…

  • FrightFest 2024: Scarlet Blue is a Surreal Cinematic Stunner

    When JP Nunez and I did our introductory article for FrightFest, we had a feast of horror titles to sort through and whittle down to five that each of us couldn’t contain our excitement for. Scarlet Blue was one of the first I picked. Aurélia Mengin’s sublime color use of reds and blues, mixing a…

  • Speak No Evil Is the James McAvoy Show…And I Love It

    At first blush, I might not seem like the best guy to review the Speak No Evil remake. I wasn’t a big fan of the 2022 Danish original, so I initially had zero interest in this new American version. I started to come around when the early reactions and reviews came out. Not only did…

  • Voice of Shadows Goes to Hell and Back in an Old Woman’s House

    In real life, I’m not a fan of cults or evil entities, but if you give me a movie about either of those things, I’ll happily eat it up. And if a film includes both of them, I’ll be chomping at the bit to see it, so when I first heard about Voice of Shadows,…

  • Red Rooms Embeds Mystery in True-Crime Commentary

    Last year, one hundred and nineteen million Americans became enthralled by true crime podcasts, according to Audiochuck and Edison Research. Our cultural obsession with the brutal acts of others can be almost as curious as the acts themselves. Is the devil in the details, or are we just caught up in the web of intrigue…

  • Invoking Yell Travels to the Woods for Some Black Metal Mayhem

    I’m not much of a metalhead (I am! – Head Banging Editor), but even I have to acknowledge that horror and metal go together like peanut butter and jelly. The aesthetics of these two art forms are incredibly similar, and there’s quite a bit of overlap in their fandoms. There have even been a number…