When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how...
There’s a certain finesse, a careful craft, that should be applied whenever a filmmaker decides to revisit a considerably popular...
As the telltale chill of fall begins to haunt the breeze and scratch at the senses, a power is reawakened. Crawling out of the dark recesses of summer, this new and powerful vision for what is to come emerges with potency and fervor. Reviled by some, embraced by others, the...
Being a teenager almost always feels like an inescapable curse, but the 17-year-old girl at the center of Thomas Robert...
In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
At one point or another, we have all found ourselves laying on the bedroom floor, staring up at the ceiling, thinking about our own mortality. It may have been a fleeting thought or a long thread of ideas about what it means to die, to no longer exist, to leave...
Last Halloween, Faster Horse Pictures announced there development plans for a new horror franchise centered around one of New Orleans’...
If there’s one subgenre of horror so malleable that it can mold itself to any theme, vampires would be the...
Pizza, Satan, and secret societies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a horror-cocktail more universally inviting. It’s no surprise Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic was the top of Overlook 2019 festivalgoer’s Must-See lists. Pizza and mayhem are our kryptonite. Written by spooky wordsmith Grady Hendrix (author of Paperbacks From Hell, Horrorstor, My...
These days, it’s not a good sign when a movie or television show isn’t screened for critics ahead of time....
In true Fantastic Fest fashion, the festival surprised everyone when this year’s secret screening was announced to be none other...
Surprising no one other than a few not-so-nosy festival goers, the much buzzed about secret screening of Fantastic Fest 2018 was that of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria. I can’t consider myself a super-fan of the Dario Argento 1977 film (I only saw the original for the first time a couple of years...