Category: Film


  • Exorcisms Get Monstrous in Effects Driven Deus Irae

    There is no shortage of religious horror films in the world these days, but anyone who once considered The Exorcist extreme could never have envisioned Pedro Cristianiโ€™s monster hunter body-horror nightmare, Deus Irae. The title, which translates to โ€œWrath of God,โ€ involves three former people of the cloth, a holy trinity if you will, of…

  • Practical Effects Marvel ‘Replicator’ Needs More Time to Cook

    If youโ€™ve read any of my reviews on this site, then itโ€™s pretty apparent I have a sweet spot for microbudget, b-grade, and independent film. Any film with practical effects and a halfway decent idea has pretty much locked me in for its runtime. Cranked Up Films has been pumping out some really cool titles…

  • Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: The Skull (S4E4)

    Wild things have been happening all around the United States this past week! DRONES are taking over our airspaces. And a new documentary on UAPโ€™ Dโ€™isclosure is set to premiere in under a week! What a wild time to be alive.ย  Seeing tweet after tweet, TikTok after TikTok, of these drones has proven one thing:…

  • Sneak Peek! Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: The Skull (S4E4)

    As we approach Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch Episode 4 โ€œThe Skull,โ€ we have officially reached the halfway mark of Season 4. It seems to be going by way too quickly! Before we take a look ahead at what this weekโ€™s episode has to offer, letโ€™s refresh ourselves with what happened last week in Episode…

  • Dances With Films NYC 2024: Will ITCH! Get Under Your Skin?

    The second Dances with Films NYC film I had the opportunity to review this week comes from multihyphenate filmmaker Bari Kang. Kangโ€™s 2021 indie crime thriller, The Scrapper, made a lot of headway for Kang when it was picked up for distribution by 1091 Pictures. His latest film, ITCH!, tweaks the zombie film formula by…

  • Folk Tales and Murder Scenes Collide in The Soul Eater

    Injecting supernatural elements into investigative thrillers is becoming increasingly mainstream these days. The incredible popularity of True Detective over the last decade has proved that a little cosmic mystery goes a very long way with investigative thriller fans looking to unravel an act so heinous it could hardly be grounded in reality. Enter The Soul…

  • Dances With Films NYC 2024: Bleeding Elevates the Vampire Genre

    When it comes to vampire movies, thereโ€™s very little left to the imagination. Weโ€™ve seen period pieces like Last Voyage of the Demeter and Bram Stokerโ€™s Dracula, and then there are the more modern ideas like Abigail and Renfield. But as far as content, weโ€™ve been locked into a tired pattern of predator and prey,…

  • Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Death Trap (S4E3)

    Iโ€™m writing this shortly after covering Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, Season 4 Episode 2, โ€œThe Curse of the Aztecs,โ€ which means I donโ€™t have much information on the Ufology front. There is some news we can mention regarding UFOTwitter. Have you seen any of those articles flying around that are reporting multiple anomalous drones…

  • Sneak Peek! Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Death Trap (S4E3)

    This week brings us another fascinating episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch! Before we take a sneak peek at what Duane Ollinger and his team have to offer, letโ€™s take a quick look at Episode 2 and remind ourselves what went down. It should be noted that Season 4 Episode 1 has been renamed…

  • Sohome Horror Fest 24: Pater Noster and the Mission of Light Throws it Back to Hippies, Vinyl, and Cults

    In 2021, the Sohome Horror Film Festival gave us a look at Bad Girls, Christopher Bickelโ€™s underground road movie about a trio of women fed up navigating the misogynistic society that profits off their backs. The film heralded back to the grindhouse era as the women decide to rob a strip club with a chauvinistic…