Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space crash landed at Fantastic Fest 2019 with the sole intention of blowing minds and scaring the...
Rose Glass’ Saint Maud stunned Midnight Madness audiences at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and it remains the one...
Japanese director Takashi Miike is prolific, to say the least. He has directed over 100 films, ranging from horrifying to hilarious. His sheer cinematic output and his generic range seem like impossible feats, but someone he has done it with an overwhelming sense of style. He shows no sign of...
Pumpkin spice is back at your favorite coffee shop. Plastic pumpkins and skeleton fill the aisles of craft stores. Spirit...
What puts the ‘haunt’ in a haunted house for you? Is it small spaces? Creepy crawlers? Morphed rooms? Masked monsters?...
It all starts with a little girl wanting a chocolate ice cream cone and ends with a showdown of epic proportions. Like an X-Men film but with more heart, Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky’s film Freaks offers a new look at the mutant-humans-fighting-for-rights genre that focuses on emotional beats to...
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
In the face of prevalent everyday violence, desperate people search from something to blame. Grasping at straws, they blame video games for inspiring shootings, stating their simulated violence infiltrate the minds of youth. This claim is ridiculous, which is why director Jason Lei Howden (Deathgasm) stretches it to the ultimate...
We all have a monster inside us. Whether it be something we’re not proud of, an insecurity, a secret, or...
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular board game of the same name. After 34 years, that film not only remains hilarious (Flames! On the side of my face!), but it also feels socially relevant in ways...