There is no greater crime syndicate in cinema (or life, for that matter) than The Yakuza, which makes them the...
Time travel movies are a lot like zombie movies. You think you’ve seen it all, that the well has run...
Like the re-emergence of perennial plants every spring, the elusive horror subgenre Folk Horror seems to sprout up incrementally throughout history as social circumstances call for it. We are presently in the midst of a new folk horror revival dominated by films like Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) and Robert Egger’s...
You know when cult king Nic Cage says a movie “might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made”, you’re in...
There’s an interesting intersection of fandoms that exists for horror and film score fans. Both incredibly passionate groups of people,...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street, we’re nearing the End of Days. Like many tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts, I’ve been preparing for this moment since the inception of my column because, if you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of punks running around in the wasteland and I’m here...
The Welcome To The Blumhouse double-feature series has officially begun, kicking off with Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr’s Black Box and Veena Sud’s The...
Quinn Armstrong’s Survival Skills celebrated it’s International Premiere at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival. It’s a delightfully dark oddity of a films...
Have you ever watched a Godzilla movie and wondered what he would taste like? Probably very gamey and radiated. But cooked the right way, the King of the Monsters might be very tasty. Monster Seafood Wars (originally 三大怪獣グルメ) explores this possibility. It’s the latest zany project from writer/director Minoru Kawasaki,...
Hungry for a spooky series to binge? This past weekend Netflix released the international series Spectros (2020), a TV-MA Brazilian...
With a tagline like “Where everything trying to kill you is downright adorable,” parents might be scratching their heads on...
Japanese director Takashi Miike is prolific, to say the least. He has directed over 100 films, ranging from horrifying to hilarious. His sheer cinematic output and his generic range seem like impossible feats, but someone he has done it with an overwhelming sense of style. He shows no sign of...