If Wes Craven’s Scream has taught us anything, it’s that if you don’t respect the rules, you will not survive....
Netflix Original Cargo is a surprising and refreshing remix of the post-apocalyptic zombie subgenre. Smart at times, but always with...
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 monster. It is awkwardly stitched together. It stumbles along unnaturally. All the pieces of a real life are there, the problem is that it doesn’t exactly come through. I’ll start...
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...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used the ‘coming-of-age’ arch to tell stories about individual journeys, love, and loss. Horror is no different, even though it seeks the extreme of the spectrum. What better example of a...
It’s hard to describe the mood of Irish folklore. With film, there is the benefit of a physical manifestation; marshy,...
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. Warren and the Old Clock (okay, I made that last one up), since the previous installment of the franchise in 2016. Few films have been able to rattle movie-goers with...
There’s been a lot of discussion in the horror community of late on ‘what defines horror‘. Where we once were...
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, there were a small handful of films that made an appearance on most everyone’s must-see lists. Upgrade, of course, was always mentioned. Equal parts body horror and neo-noir, Upgrade is the story of...
