Category: Horror Reviews
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Robert Eggers movies are always frightening, even when they aren’t horror movies. They thrust viewers into a different and borderline alien world so convincingly, so intensely, that one can’t help but feel a little horrified by the experience. When The Northman puts the audience directly into the world of Norse mythology, the experience is so overwhelming that…
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If you’re at all interested in Fried Barry director Ryan Kruger’s Street Trash remake, it’s likely because you have fond memories of the 1987 J. Michael Muro body horror B-movie. The original film had some incredible special effects of body melting and oozing as well as some jaw-dropping scenes like a man corroding into a…
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On March 18, 2021, I received my first update for The Man in the White Van. Legion M (Mandy, Archenemy) announced the project using an amalgamation of scenes from previously released films to form a riveting concept trailer with a creepy, slowed-down cover version of The Turtles’ “Happy Together,” stitching the edit together with a…
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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 Cristiani’s monster hunter body-horror nightmare, Deus Irae. The title, which translates to “Wrath of God,” involves three former people of the cloth, a holy trinity if you will, of…
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If you’ve read any of my reviews on this site, then it’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…
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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…
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When it comes to vampire movies, there’s very little left to the imagination. We’ve seen period pieces like Last Voyage of the Demeter and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and then there are the more modern ideas like Abigail and Renfield. But as far as content, we’ve been locked into a tired pattern of predator and prey,…
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In 2021, the Sohome Horror Film Festival gave us a look at Bad Girls, Christopher Bickel’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…