I have been admiring Steven Kostanski’s work for years without even knowing it. All this time I was admiring the...
Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say...
“Christmas carolers…I hate Christmas carolers.” Mrs. Deagle, myself, and everyone else. We are near concluding End of Days month here at Nightmare on Film Street and, much more mercifully, 2020 as a whole. Instead of wallowing in the crap fest that was this year, I chose instead to gleefully cover the...
In Diego Freitas’ directorial debut My Dead Ones, Nicolas Prattes plays a shy film student named Davi. He spends most...
Although most are familiar with the “La Llorona” legend, this latest adaptation is a fresh take that tackles the complicated...
In Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie in 2000 there were hints that a particularly creative filmmaker could use the mutant mayhem to make a horror movie. From Magneto discovering his powers when separated his parents in a Concentration Camp, to Rogue practically killing her boyfriend when her energy-sucking powers emerge,...
The law is intended to maintain order and protect civil liberties. It may not always work out that way, but...
Randy Ser is a man of many talents. After cutting his teeth on Roger Corman productions and obtaining degrees in...
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...
It’s ironic that the fantasy genre, for all its promises to sweep us away to a world of, well, fantasy,...
The horror genre has always been used as a way to contextualize real-life problems. The more aware people become of...
Rarely do we find comedy in carnage, but debut feature director Kirill Sokolov marries the two cinema components with guts and glory in his debut feature, Why Don’t You Just Die!. While Sokolov portrays his bold influencers through film, he is surprising audiences with a unique brand of Russian dark...