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[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into...
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[Editor’s Note: Welcome back, Fiends! If you haven’t already read Chris’s Poor Decisions of Polarizing Remakes – Part One, go...
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Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say is pretty accurate. From the mad mind of Canadian shlockmeister Steven Kostanski (The Void, Leprechaun Returns) comes a heartwarming tale about family and intergalactic warlords, courtesy of the good people...
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Sometimes all that’s needed to bring new energy to a well-trod genre is to inject some deceptively simple innovation into...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street, we’re nearing the End of Days. Like many tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts, I’ve...
It’s a Haunting on Film Street this month at NOFS. We’re talking poltergeists, haunted houses and evil spirits. At first, I was stumped on finding a movie that has both ghosts and punks, until I uncovered this 1980s gem called The Wraith, a supernatural teen drama, written and directed by...
While horror has delved into the subconscious waters of our dreams many times before, director Anthony Scott Burns (Our House)...
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Bringing back a beloved series like Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone is bound to be met with mixed reviews. Anyone...
Joining prime examples of the power of good filmmaking is director Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, a film with a truly bizarre premise that moved me through the sheer power of storytelling. It’s not unlike The Shape of Water (2017) in the way it makes the viewer deeply, emotionally invested in a...
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In Sao Paulo, a city already rife with poverty, death and corruption, an ancient evil will be awakened, bringing destruction...
Gut the Punks! is a monthly dissection of genre film with some loose connection to punk rock music and culture....
Being queer is pretty cool, but also pretty exhausting. As you search to find yourself in film, television, books, and more, you find yourself creating narratives within those stories. Being queer requires an imagination out of survival, an imagination that believes you fit neatly into typically heterosexual stories. Out of...
