When I first heard of the new streaming platform Quibi – I honestly had zero interest. My whole life I’ve worked my way up from watching TV on a 12-inch black and white screen when I was a boy to finally having a 60 inch HDR monstrosity in my viewing room so why in the […]
Looking for her dog in the backyard of her new home, a young single mom named India (Lois Wilkinson) discovers an antique Witchboard half-hidden in the undergrowth. She takes it into her home and, a few days later while having a glass of wine with her friend, Becca (Gabriella Calderone) decides to see if the […]
The first half-hour or so of Getaway feels very familiar. There are three menacing hillbilly serial killers living out in the woods and three nubile young women enjoying a weekend in a nearby cabin. What happens next seems pretty obvious, but director Lane Toran, who co-wrote the script with Jaclyn Betham, still manages to crank […]
A group of high school seniors, played by actors in their late 20s and early 30s, are being stalked and slain by a lumbering killer wearing a hoodie and a medieval plague doctor mask in The Lurker, a ponderous and predictable slasher film from director Eric Liberacki (Spoiled Fruit). The plot centers around fledgling thespian […]
There are good guys and bad guys in director Jamaal Burden’s Abominable, but the real heroes of the movie are Yaya Turner (music), Tony Fabian (Music Advisor) and Alex Ferguson (assistant engineer/music department) who make sure there isn’t a moment of silence in the film’s 78-minute run time. It is through their relentless efforts that […]
Not every horror movie needs to be a gore-filled, action-packed thrill ride; there’s a lot to be said for films that take the time to develop strong characters and build a slow-burn atmosphere of nail-biting tension that drives the audience to the edge long before anything actually happens on the screen. Lost Gully Road, directed […]
On the surface, Red Handed is the story of three estranged brothers whose trip to spread their dad’s ashes along the supposedly spooky Sazerac River gets derailed by a weird religious cult, lead by their creepy uncle (Michael Biehn in a glorified cameo), that plan to kidnap one of their children and use him in […]
The idea, at least on paper, is terrifying. A woman, Marla Mae (Lisa van Dam-Bates), who has always wanted an IUD (intrauterine device) but for some reason has never gone to a clinic or seen a doctor, decides to let an old friend whose nickname is “Doc.” but who seems to have no other credentials, […]
It’s easy to see why a horror movie maker might want to set his story in a carnival haunted house: The jump scares come virtually prepackaged. If it’s a gag in the house designed to scare visitors in the film then it can also be used to scare the movie audience. As experience will tell […]
Directed by Jeff Broadstreet, as Roy G. Biv., Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge is the latest killer puppet flick to hit the horror-scene. The director listed under a pseudonym should have been a red flag for what I was about to see, but I went in with bloody-colored glasses. Watching low-budget horror movies you expect […]
Directed by Maria Lee Metheringham, Pumpkins is a fun little movie. It’s not very scary, mind you, but there’s something special about it, something in the DIY ethics you feel in every frame, that makes you want to root for it despite its shortcomings. Set in the pasturelands of the north of England, Pumpkins tells […]
In a movie where nothing is as it seems, the line between fear and disbelief can get muddled. This is the unfortunate case for Director David Ryan Keith’s new horror film, The Dark Within. Just like the character, we can’t decipher what’s real or not. Might sound great, however, when reality and time are so […]