Category: Horror Reviews
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Every horror fan should know the story of the MGM studio fire. Sixty years ago, an electrical short caused a fire in Vault 7 of the MGM backlot just before ten o’clock at night on August 10, 1965. The nitrate film quickly burned, and the pressure building within the vault would eventually cause it to…
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One of the films I most anticipated at this year’s FrightFest was undoubtedly Seth Daly’s The Rows. A film about a kid in a cornfield avoiding a group of murderers was like drawing a moth to a flame. Sure, the cornfield is getting a little overcrowded these days with a lackluster reboot of Children of…
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Crime thrillers exploring the underbellies of society aren’t hard to find these days, but the good ones are few and far between. The UK has brought us its fair share of gritty indie darlings throughout the years, films which have captured varying levels of crime and chaos, all while retaining an atmosphere projecting nefarious elements…
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Horror gameshow films have been around for a while now. My first introduction to the subgenre was likely through a segment of the John Ritter comedy Stay Tuned as a kid, a gateway horror title toward films like The Running Man, Deathrow Gameshow, $la$hers, and The Uh-Oh Show, which have all enhanced the depths of…
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Haunt movies have become a bigger part of the horror landscape over the last few years. Films like Haunt, Hurt, and Hellfest have all been relatively successful in providing scares that make us question the sadism of the people providing our fear, especially when we clamor for more, holding the belief that everything we’re witnessing…
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Imagine having nowhere to run to and nowhere to go that’s safe, not even being able to sleep without your nightmares reminding you that the color of your skin defines someone’s hatred for you. That’s the fresh idea behind Raven Deshay Carter’s debut film Noseeums. When social injustice and horror collide, the viewer often wins,…
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At a time when businesses seem to have more rights than the people who work at them, a film like Night of Violence arrives to eviscerate your moral sensibilities. Illya Konstantin’s film plays with your sense of what’s right, actively has you siding with its supposed villains, but produces POV characters you also want to…
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I appreciate movies that hold their cards close to their chests for the majority of their runtime, refusing to reveal what the central conflict is truly about. There’s something exciting and intriguing about being brought along for a mystery and attempting to guess at what is actually going on. When the surprise is unveiled, it’s…
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“Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” This Bible quote, taken from Genesis, is meant to be metaphorical in its own context. However, in the case of Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s new horror film, Together, it is quite literal. Although the…
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Olivia Taylor Dudley’s 2025 is going very well. The actress was last seen during the Chattanooga Film Festival’s virtual showcase, giving a dramatically engrossing performance in the cult-aftermath movie Abigail Before Beatrice, and now in Fantasia’s Canadian Premiere of Addison Heimann’s Touch Me. Dudley is becoming a staple of indie cinema, undertaking memorable parts in Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman…