Category: Horror Reviews
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One of my favorite things about the Fantasia International Film Festival is the depth of its programming. There’s always unexpected treasures waiting to be found within the massive amount of films playing, and I think I just found one. Jody Wilson, a visual effects artist from Vancouver who has contributed to projects such as The…
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Judgment comes for sinners in a brand new installment of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Can this film set a better precedent for a series that has been average at best? Set after the laughably horrendous I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the new I Know What You Did Last Summer wisely…
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Alberto Sciamma delivers one of the most indescribable experiences of Fantasia’s lineup, Cielo. The film is beautifully captured, from roaring landscapes of the Bolivian desert to colorfully inspired Church murals and dangerous cliff sides. The cinematography alone is cause to turn Alex Metcalfe into a sought-after name in his field. Cielo, which translates to Darling,…
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Animation has long been one of my favorite film mediums. Great artists tell fantastic stories through colorful lenses of exaggerated colors in dazzling, surreal landscapes. When it’s done well, it’s magic, and when it’s not so well, it remains imaginative. I knew Death Does Not Exist (La mort n’existe pas) would be a challenging film.…
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Homeowners Association or HOAs can be pretty ruthless. We’ve all heard stories of HOA presidents riding waves of power, and there are some pretty unbelievable stories out there from public court cases to personal accounts on Reddit threads. It’s no wonder Jenny (Haley Leary) has reservations about moving out of the chaotic city and into…
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2020 was just the weirdest year. The pandemic. The quarantine. The regular video chats to soothe our collective traumas and silence our internal screaming. Though it was five years ago now, it remains a fresh hell. The likes of which I hope we need not traverse again. However, the pandemic did give some creatives new…
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M3gan 2.0 is bombing at the box office. Raking in just 31 million on a budget of 15-25 million, it just barely made its money back. Jason Blum, the founder of Blumhouse Films, has had a rough time, to say the least. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter for comment, he replied, “We all thought…
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Just before entering the Chattanooga Film Festival for what was to be my last in-person film of the festival, the foyer of the Chattanooga Theatre Center was boisterous. People were just exiting Tina Romero’s excellent Drag Queens v Zombies comedy, Queens of the Dead, and the final party of the weekend loomed. Delaying the “Pizza…
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Even though I was boots on the ground at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, having a spectacular time watching one awesome film after another, the online edition of this year’s festival was just as good. There was some overlap with titles like The Misadventures of Vince and Hick, Hacked, and I Really Love My…
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The shark-horror monster movie scene is one of those subgenres that allures us this time of year. Hell, my television will likely have every actor that’s ever faced a shark in a movie represented during the Fourth of July week. From the king of shark movies, Jaws, to the tsunami of titles that have recently…