Category: Horror Reviews
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This review is going to feel like a time capsule of sorts. I’m constructing this article on January seventeenth, shortly after seeing Dada, and while the thoughts are still fresh in my head. But it feels kismet to have seen this film today, the day after David Lynch passed. Dada is a potent reminder of the…
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Beauty standards for women were put on notice last year as Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror masterpiece The Substance roared into theaters. The innovative and hypnotic thriller has absolutely dominated the horror space since last summer, even earning Demi Moore her third Golden Globe nomination and first win. While horror fans are surely expecting an influx of…
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I’m a sucker for a good anthology film. Give me a variety of scares with different monsters or directors. I don’t care. Fill it with gory effects, makeup, and strangeness, and count me in. I will admit to knowing nothing about The 100 Candles Game when the sequel, The Last Possession, was offered for review,…
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I think we need a subgenre label for the growing number of paranormal documentary films. They’re branded as straight documentaries, but I think this is doing them a disservice. My first introduction to these films was during Covid, when the Kane Hodder led Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation was…
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Being from the northeast, rain is common, and there’s nothing significant or ominous about having multiple storms in a day. However, if you’ve ever heard Albert Hammond sing about it, then you know “It Never Rains in Southern California.” But, when it does, it can be taken as a bad omen. That’s exactly where we…
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Robert Eggers’ latest take on the classic vampire film Nosferatu is currently scaring up a boatload of business at movie theaters everywhere, making it the perfect time for all sorts of fanfare to step into the limelight. While younger filmgoers may go in with little knowledge concerning F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German expressionist film Nosferatu: A…
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I will try to do this in my best Rod Serling voice, as it’s fitting for the new year: Imagine, if you will, a world upside down. A place where the laws of nature have been reversed, and the laws of man have gone out the window. That’s the nightmare one family finds themselves waking…
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Nearly every documentary about aliens, Ufology, or ‘D’isclosure is the same. Start with a bold or “hard-hitting” statement from someone in the field who has some semblance of clout and then pad out an hour and 20 minutes with the same talking heads we see time after time. Maybe throw in a few dramatic recreations,…
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There’s been a lot of discussion about the trolley problem recently. You know, the moral v. ethical quandary that has no black-and-white answer. A sort of Kobayashi Maru for my fellow Star Trek fans, where no matter the decision, loss is inevitable, and the true measure for examination is in the aftermath of events. The…
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If you’d ever considered a world where slasher movies are real, have I got the film for you. A late 2024 entry, horror-comedy Bloody Axe Wound makes its way into theaters this weekend, and it’s a bloody good time worth the price of admission. The film takes place in the fictional location of Clover Falls,…