Category: Horror Reviews
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I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930’s through 1950’s. I’ve seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn’t quite measure up to the rest.…
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Very often in my free time, I browse the channels of YouTube. My most watched content consists of board games videos. I do, however, also watch movie reviews. Out of everyone I watch, Chris Stuckmann is at the top. He brings with him a positive energy and an enthusiastic attitude that’s easy to see. Although…
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There seems to be an overall critical appreciation for Black Phone 2, the sequel to the horror/thriller film The Black Phone. The first movie featured excellent performances all around, especially from actors Ethan Hawke and Mason Thames. It also starred Madeleine McGraw as Gwen Blake, the sister to Thames’ character, Finney. Hawke starred as “The…
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When I watched the UK premiere of Yuriyan Retriever’s Mag Mag on Saturday, the director’s name was relatively new to me, although well known in Japan and more recently in the USA. I had read it was going to be a “weird and wild satire of J-Horror”, which I’ve been fond of since discovering Urotsukidōji, Ring and…
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If you were thinking that Saint Patrick’s Day is a unique backdrop for an alien invasion horror movie, you’d be right. Historically, the few horror movies that do center around the holiday usually have a “killer leprechaun” plot, which makes the body-swapping alien concept of Hulu’s “Crawlers” so unique. Set in the town of Emerald…
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It was difficult to know what to expect from Game: the opening film of the festival (I’ve seen a couple of very strong openers, and a couple less so); and audiences had been told there are “local connections” to Nottingham, which might have meant the city’s genre film festival was promoting well known talent, rather…
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The day’s feature film, Baby Fever (dir Nupur Chitalia, Pascale Potvin) encompass all the themes of the day, at least tangentially. After moving to a new community with her husband, James, and finding herself pregnant, Lila interviews with the local mothers’ group, a prestigious club led by mommy influencer Trish (in a tooth-for-tooth performance by…
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Strong themes (from grief to motherhood, self-doubt to self-preservation) wrapped in elegant storytelling ruled the day at the tenth Sick Chicks Film Festival. Grief is such a ubiquitous topic in so many films that it seems impossible that there can be anything else to say, but there is. In Aunque no esté contigo (Even If…
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As I’ve said in my review for F1, I’m not particularly into sports or sports movies. However, couple that with a psychological horror bent, and you have my interest. I went to Him expecting a movie of low quality; the RT score currently sits at 31%. However, after viewing the film and talking with my father,…
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It may have only been three years ago when I was first introduced to the world as Avalon Fast sees it. The budding auteur’s debut film, Honeycomb, about a group of young women who venture out into the woods where they start an independent commune free from the pressures of societal norms only to find…