Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic recently celebrated its world premiere at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans. The second film...
The ever-changing LA set thriller 1BR celebrated its world premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival where Montreal’s cult obsessed were...
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson family in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, and we all know true crime obsession with cults has gripped the cultural zeitgeist. So how can a film stick out from...
Cults are all the rage. Escaping cults, joining cults, discussing cults, it’s been the year of the cult in horror...
More than 30 years ago, wholesome all-American families were clutching at their pearls in their suburban homes as they watched...
Special Actors, Shinichiro Ueda’s follow-up to the break-away hit One Cut of The Dead, is a feel-good comedy involving cults, ghosts, psychics, and actors implanted in everyday life like an immersive game gone mad. Continuing his streak of meta-movies, Special Actors is as much about the filmmaking process as it is about...
When Wrong Turn (2003) rocked onto our cinema screens 18 years ago, it gave us a new and inventive entry...
Having not seen any promotional material whatsoever aside from a short synopsis, I really hadn’t a clue what to expect...
Like the re-emergence of perennial plants every spring, the elusive horror subgenre Folk Horror seems to sprout up incrementally throughout history as social circumstances call for it. We are presently in the midst of a new folk horror revival dominated by films like Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) and Robert Egger’s...
There is no shortage of horror films that center around cults. The word “cult” alone sparks immediate intrigue, and it...
In Jesse Thomas Cook’s goofy action-thriller Cult Hero, disgraced “cult buster” and deprogrammer Dale Domazar (Ry Barrett) is called up out of...
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...