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: Viy (1967) horror movie review
Russia’s first horror movie, based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, is an exquisite example of psychotronic Folk Horror! If you’re reading this via some form of digital device, … Continue reading
Plague Week: The Andromeda Strain (1971) movie review
Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel about an alien microorganism let loose on Earth is stark, chilling, claustrophobic, tense, and all too realistic. Science fiction movies featuring a biological … Continue reading