Horror fans everywhere are lining up this weekend to see two of their favorite paranormal investigators face their curtain call, as Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are set to retire their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: Last Rites. It’s been a relatively short twelve years since the world first laid eyes…
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…
Not sure what we did to please the Gods, but on top of the new season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, we have a new season of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch!! This came as a complete surprise to me. I was at the bar last Friday, destroying my girlfriend in a game of…
The American novelist Mary Flannery O’Connor was known for her Southern Gothic morality tales. They mixed Christian Spirituality, moral values, and racial issues. From Dusk Till Dawn also explores faith. It is heavily more focused on the vampiric bloodshed in the latter half of the film, though. Take these two art pieces, throw some sweat,…
Like most movie fans, I have a love/hate relationship with M. Night Shyamalan. He’s made some of the best genre films of the last few decades, but he’s also made some of the biggest stinkers of this millennium. You simply never know what you’re going to get with a new M. Night movie, so I…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a horror fan who’s all about made-for-TV movies. Hell, made-for-TV films don’t have a great reputation in any genre, but when they’re horror flicks, they face an additional hurdle. Unless they’re intended for a streaming service (an option that wasn’t around for most of cinematic history), they have to go…