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 Columnist Telluride Horrorshow Movie Review
Ivo Von Aart’s debut feature explores the dark side of internet culture with a blend of dark comedy, biting satire, and out-and-out horror. Horror movies – and genre films in … 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: 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
31 Days Of Horror: Black Sunday (1960) Horror Movie Review
Mario Bava’s first credited directorial debut is a masterpiece of Gothic horror cinema, illustrating a world in transition. 1960 was a pivotal year in horror history. Horror movies were getting … Continue reading
Sunday Afternoon Movie: Waffle (2020)
A psycho-obsessive ‘best friend’ and a spoiled socialite/orphaned heiress aren’t the only thing that’s genuinely terrifying about Waffle, Carlyn Hudson‘s wonderfully twisted short film from this year’s SXSW film festival. … 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
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