Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the...
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Filmmaking is a tough racket–it’s hard enough to get the film made, to make it through the stages of production,...
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While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the opposite in his debut feature A Ghost Waits. This monochromatic and shoestring-budgeted indie haunter finds Jack (MacLeod Andrews) in charge of fixing up a house and finding what exactly causes past...
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While we see a fair share of movies about the elusive and iconic Bigfoot, the Wendigo is far less depicted;...
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The slasher has outlasted its presumed expiration date, and then some. The golden age of this divisive subgenre is certainly...
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Indie film is firing on all cylinders when it’s at its most ambitious, and that’s exactly what you’re in for with For The Sake of Vicious. Indie Horror is never a surprise in the low-budget market but Indie Action is another thing altogether. Action sequences are complicated, they require significantly more...
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In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
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At one point or another, we have all found ourselves laying on the bedroom floor, staring up at the ceiling,...
The Oak Room (2020) is a love letter to the gothic thrillers of the past, which is fitting, since the theme of the film is about the past catching up with you. In a cross between No Country For Old Men (2007) and Frailty (2001), the seedy bar stools of...
Joining the tradition of the stalker horror subgenre, specifically the “lady stalker” theme of films like Misery and Fatal Attraction,...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
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Nowadays, clowns are as synonymous with horror as vampires and zombies. These once-comical entertainers have influenced a new culture of fear. While Stephen King’s It is considered the originator of the clown’s newfound creepy status, indie filmmakers like Lawrence Fowler preserve the notion of clowns being scary. In the director’s...
