Mary Shelley, Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new biopic focusing on the life of Frankenstein‘s creator, is a bit like the titular writer’s famous...
One bad night… One bad decision… Can haunt you forever. Bad Samaritan follows the cat-and-mouse game between struggling artist Sean Falco (Robert Sheehan...
Blumhouse’s newest supernatural horror Stephanie is finally getting a wide release, landing on DVD this week. An unfortunately quiet release, but don’t despair – Stephanie is certainly worth the watch. The team behind it is the cream of the crop. The director is Akiva Goldsman, Academy Award winner for A Beautiful...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used...
In 1987 The Monster Squad introduced a generation of young horror fans to the Universal Monsters. For those kids (yourself included I...
It’s hard to describe the mood of Irish folklore. With film, there is the benefit of a physical manifestation; marshy, foggy, mossy, and earthen.. But even still, there is an unnameable quality that makes a story set in the overcast, rich green hills of the Irish countryside authentic. Whether they...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury...
Horror audiences have been impatiently awaiting The Conjuring 3 or one of its planned spin-offs; The Nun, The Crooked Man, Mrs....
There’s been a lot of discussion in the horror community of late on ‘what defines horror‘. Where we once were outcasts, shadowed by more glamorous genres, our creepy little genre is now ‘in vogue’. Horror audiences are a passionate bunch, and perhaps in an effort to protect our once niche macabre...
I’m going to preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 70’s, and did not get the...
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is a high-octane depiction of futuristic violence and revenge. When polling attendees of the Overlook Film Festival,...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ similar tactics in their formatting, trying to evoke a ‘this is totally real and not at all fictionalized‘ experience, I always held the firm belief that ‘on screen’ movies were...
