Dark Christmas: Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984) horror movie review
With a spooky synth score, some fine performances, a swinging early ’80s London setting, and a recent restoration, Don’t Open Till Christmas is better than it has any business being. … Continue reading
Frogman (2023) horror movie review
Anthony Cousins’ feature-length directorial debut is found footage horror done right – a deliciously, disgustingly faux documentary about a cryptid that delivers real fear along with plenty of laughs and … Continue reading
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter horror movie review
With its iconic kung fu dance sequence from Crispin Glover and starring a young bespectacled Corey Feldman, and his monster mask fetish; its doublemint twins and its machete face slide, … Continue reading
The Veil (2023) horror movie review
Cameron Beyl’s eerie, atmospheric The Veil blends classic sci-fi, speculative fiction, and traditional American ghost stories to tell a poetic, haunting story of abuse, guilt, and regret. Ghost stories are … Continue reading
Portland Horror Film Festival: The Creeping movie review
Jamie Hooper’s directorial debut overcomes its technical shortcomings with heart, outstanding performances, and an elemental understanding of the ghost genre. Ghost stories are some of humanity’s oldest and most familiar. … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: The 100 Candles Game Telluride Horrorshow Review
The 100 Candles Game is a portmenteau horror seeped in menace and gothic ambiance. It’s pure class, eerier, more unsettling, and higher production values than many more mainstream affairs. Indie … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Cold Wind Blowing Salem Horror Festival Review
Dionne Copland’s debut feature is an isolationist horror that uses complex characters and relationships to really cut close to the bone. Here’s our review of Cold Wind Blowing! Horror movies … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Black Lake Salem Horror Festival movie review
K/XI’s feature-length debut about a South Asian folktale is a gorgeous, poetic, atmospheric allegory of trauma and revenge. Horror movies have a tendency to tip their hand, letting you know … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: The Witches Of Hollywood Salem Horror Festival movie review
The Witches Of Hollywood is a short but essential documentary on witches in cinema, analyzing 80 years of horror movies through a feminist and psychoanalytic lens! It’s as entertaining as … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Pumpkinhead (1988) horror movie review
Witchcraft meets folk horror meets creature feature in Pumpkinhead, a frightfully good tale of Appalachian terror that holds up exceedingly well! Witches on film don’t exist solely to bewitch young … Continue reading
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