A soundtrack can make or break a movie. There are some iconic films out there with equally iconic soundtracks, and...
Whether you’re a student in the middle of the back-to-school madness or just an average Joe who loves the smell...
Jesse Thomas Cook’s cult-busting, gut-busting indie flick Cult Hero recently celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival. The action-horror-comedy mashup follows disgraced “cult buster” and deprogrammer Dale Domazar (Ry Barrett) is called up out of retirement for one last job. Fearing that her husband has been kidnapped by a new-age...
Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
Analog-obsessed modern horror maestro Scott Derrickson is back from his brief jaunt in the Marvel universe with The Black Phone....
A tree falling may or may not make a sound when no one is around to hear it, but for the characters in Adam Reider’s Woodland Grey any sound to come out of from the depths of the woods is deafening. This eerie indie horror stars Jenny Raven (Flatliners...
“So what’s with the 80’s theme?” “It’s the epitome of cheese. And sometimes, I like to smile.” Talk about summarizing...
After a pandemic’s-worth of wait, The Green Knight is finally here. Teased in early 2020 (now hereby known as “simpler...
If we have learned anything from the cold open of Army of the Dead, it’s that road head usually leads to disaster. The same can be said about the characters in Road Head, who are way too horny to be operating a two-ton vehicle at the same time. The dark comedy is...
Like the re-emergence of perennial plants every spring, the elusive horror subgenre Folk Horror seems to sprout up incrementally throughout...
I’m going to assume you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s Alien, but have you seen Ridley Scott’s Alien reenacted by the bus...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music and culture. Since the beginning of this column, I’ve wanted to cover anything by cult director Alex Cox, whether it’d be the toxic love story of Sid and Nancy, the...