Category: Film
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If you’re a fan of bizarre mashups of fantasy, sci-fi, action, and comedy, you need to know about the Alienoid duology. The first film, Alienoid, is an absurdly fun time-jumping adventure that blends all four genres in just about the best way possible, but it doesn’t stand alone. It ends on a cliffhanger that cries…
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In the midst of preparing for the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, one film stood out above many others. Fantasia always has its impressive share of science fiction, horror, and genre films, yet Vera Drew’s trans-superhero and metaphoric fable, The People’s Joker, was one that I, and I think a lot of other critics had at…
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When John Rosman’s New Life premiered at Fantasia last August, it was one of those movies I knew I wanted to see. I love science-fiction films, and this one was playing it pretty close to the chest, providing a very limited synopsis and only a couple of pictures to go on. JP Nunez won the…
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In an anomalous turn of events, it seems as if the History Channel realized audiences would feel a bit lackluster after Holy Cow and decided to make Season 5 Episode 3: Dead in the Water, jam-packed with excitement. As I mentioned in What’s Up?, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch usually follows a structural pattern of…
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I’ve written quite extensively on horror comedy musicals. In fact, I’ve written a horror comedy musical, Brides! (You can get an album of select songs from the show, Brides (World Premiere Sneak Peek), wherever you stream or buy music online!) Whether you like musicals or not, whether you like horror or not, The Guy Who…
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Jill Gevargizian’s The Stylist was one of the most delightful surprises of 2020. Outside of Sweeney Todd, we hadn’t really seen a hairstylist killer, which gave the film an original feeling. Not to mention there were two fantastic performances from Najarra Townsend and Brea Grant. Gevargizian, who is a trained hair stylist, put a lot…
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It’s probably an exaggeration to say that vampire movies are the foundation of the horror genre, but it’s closer to the truth than you might think. Arguably the greatest silent horror film of all time, Nosferatu, is about a vampire, and vampire movies helped kick off the golden ages of both Universal Studios and Hammer…
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My favorite horror concepts are always the ones that are right in your face, and writer-director Nick Verdi’s Sweet Relief is abundantly that. A slow roll of suburban moral panic, Verdi paints the Rockwellian portrait of a sleepy small town and fills it with uproar over a viral internet challenge. It’s a song we’ve all…
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I’m not going to lie and tell you that I’ve been anxiously looking forward to Tarot. Like every other horror fan, I thought this movie looked like the worst kind of generic genre drivel, so I went into it with just about the lowest expectations possible. In fact, I was basically dreading the experience, so…
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If there’s anything I know about Takeshi Kushida, it’s that he can craft a visually striking horror movie. Whatever side of the fence you fell on with Kushida’s debut feature, Woman of the Photographs, you can’t say it wasn’t a lavishly colored and beautifully shot debut feature. Kushida’s artistic prowess combined with a love/hate relationship…