Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion...
This past July, I wrote a piece on punk rockers in genre films, and how a new generation of filmmakers...
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good vs evil” theme, running barely as thick as a bowl of a 69-cent can of soup. Saint Maud, the debut feature film from Rose Glass, instead dances a terrifying and...
Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
In the face of prevalent everyday violence, desperate people search from something to blame. Grasping at straws, they blame video...
We all have a monster inside us. Whether it be something we’re not proud of, an insecurity, a secret, or something darker, that monster grows from the inside out. These factors are ones cultivated from a lesser notion, seeds planted deep within ourselves, and it is only a matter of...
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson...
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular board game of the same name. After 34 years, that film not only remains hilarious (Flames! On the side of my face!), but it also feels socially relevant in ways...
What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this...
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
What do a stripper, an Elvis impersonator, a truck driver, and a teen runaway all have in common? They’re all trapped in a clown-filled storm named Clownado. The film, written and directed by Todd Sheets, is just as ridiculous as its name suggests, but in the most entertaining way possible....