Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
Keola Racela’s feature film debut Porno pits a group of innocent Christian teenagers against an evil unleashed in their local movie...
There are few horrors so iconic, so jaw-droppingly terrifying, that they have eclipsed the entire horror genre. Constantly compared, credited, and used as a marker to stake a claim over entire sub-genres. I am speaking of course, about Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998), both the quintessential j-horror, paranormal mystery, and J-horror remake...
Death as a career makes for an interesting life. It’s like holding the great beyond with oven mitts, the corners...
Horror has played with depicting the world of dreams before. The most iconic foray into the horrors of our sleeping...
Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the audience, to a different world. The Princess Bride is a prime example. However, very few (if any) movies make this transition between worlds actually matter to the plot, giving characters...
Fantastical drama Cold Skin tells a tale of loneliness, fear, and humanity in presence of beasts. Isolated at the top of...
The opening night crowd at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal were treated to the world premiere of Nightmare Cinema....
Under The Silver Lake celebrated its North American premiere on July 19th with a sold-out screening at the 2018 Fantasia Film Festival. The film has received some pretty mixed reviews since its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and will no doubt continue to see strong opinions on either side. Sadly,...
Electro-Magnetic detectors, readers, and doo-dads have long been touted as tools to capture evidence of the paranormal. (Despite little evidence...
Few horror movies are able to nail a single, lasting image that leaves audiences shuddering in their seats long after...
It’s kill or be killed in Game of Death. The film is little bit Belko Experiment, a little bit Hunger Games, and a little bit of none of those. In similar fashion to Beyond the Gates, a mysterious board game has gone awry. Consequences quickly become dire, and the countdown is on. The...