As someone whose been watching Horror/Sci-Fi films longer than many of you have been alive, I don’t mind calling myself jaded. Mind you, I don’t take much joy out of calling myself that, but I’ve seen so many movies over the millenia that it’s pretty much impossible for any film maker to come up with […]
Madison Heller (Ali Larter) is a single mom with the usual single mom problems. She has two kids, Haley (Chloe Perrin) and Jacob (Max Rose), and while both of them seem to be generally well adjusted, they still take up a lot of her time. It doesn’t get any easier when Jacob repeatedly gets into […]
Director Alastair Orr and writer Max Roberts – who, oddly, does not receive an IMDb credit – weave together a combination of The Ruins (2008) and The Descent (2015) in the vacation-gone-wrong creature feature Indigenous (2015) available now from Momentum Pictures. A group of five friends follow a local guide into the jungles of Panama […]
Writer/Director Michael Dougherty takes another stab at focusing on horror during the holidays with his latest fright fest, Krampus. This time he shifts his attention from Halloween to the myths and origins of jolly old Saint Nick of Christmas tales by playing with the European legends of Krampus, referred to here as the shadow of […]
You know what I consider talent? Taking something that is normally considered subpar or poor and using those perceived disadvantages while maximizing their full potential to actually turn them into positives. This is exactly what writers Justin Channell (also the director), Zane Crosby and Josh Lively do in their film Winners Tape All: The Henderson […]
You better be paying close attention during the 90-minute run-time of Nightmare Code. A missed word or visual, here or there, and you might miss a small byte of information that’s key to the story. A lot happens and sometimes it feels like an information dump. The quartered, split screen often used adds to what […]
Director Tetsuya Nakashima’s new suspense thriller The World of Kanako is one the most visually striking films I have seen this year, and it is also one of the most violent, harrowing, and brutal films of 2015. Its characters live in a maelstrom of vices such as drug addiction, prostitution, and murder, or in quieter […]
I have always been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe though not a die-hard fan, only a casual one. I do have a collection of his works but have not read all of them as his writing style at times were a little hard to read. Personally, I always preferred his spiritual successor H.P. Lovecraft […]
Sean Cain’s The Last House is getting a second chance at life re-titling the Breath of Hate (2011). Wild Eye Releasing is making the film available on DVD and VOD November 24th, 2015. The film is worth a new look for the performance of its main bad, Ezra Buzzington as Hate, but is likely more […]
Before I get started, let me say that the trailer for this film doesn’t do it justice. Suspension is a production of Suspended Reality Inc. and, considering the story the film tells, the company couldn’t have a better name. The plot contains two parallel and alternating threads for a little over half of the film. […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been reinterpreted countless times. Just in terms of cinema, the tale of man playing God has been adapted endlessly since the Thomas Edison produced short silent film version in 1910. Now over 100 years later, we have Victor Frankenstein, a 21st century revamp of the iconic tale from director Paul McGuigan […]
I don’t watch many demonic possession subgenre horror movies, a byproduct of which is that I have avoided a lot of bad possession movies. I’ve probably missed a few decent ones, too. I’m happy to have made an exception for The Wicked Within, part of this year’s 8 Films to Die For series. It had […]
A lot of you might not know that I’m a film festival judge, and I’ve been one for a few years now. You might be thinking that watching films for a living is a great gig, but it can be an extremely long haul. Although I’m currently affiliated with the famed New York City Horror […]
SUPER SCARY SHORTS SATURDAY Director Jared Bentley’s short film The Conductor is a taut science fiction/horror thriller that brings modern technology to Mabusean machinations. Helen (Jessica Richards) wakes up one morning with a strange electronic device on her back. Suddenly the gadget fires up and she finds her body being controlled by a mysterious force. […]
SUPER SCARY SHORTS SATURDAY We can’t stop time, it is said. If we could stop it, time would probably drive quite a hard bargain with us to do so. Prolific director Patrick Rea shows just how terrifying a prospect this can be in his first-rate short horror film The Hourglass Figure. Chelsea (Michelle Davidson) is […]