The 2022 Overlook Film Festival returns to historic New Orleans, Louisiana beginning June 2nd for a 4-day weekend of weird...
Head Count is a very well made and well acted monster flick about isolation and paranoia that grabs you early on and won’t let go.
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how much I would love to return to the historical city. I think about jazz, the architecture, the above-ground cemeteries and its strong connection to voodoo. And when I think about...
Travis Stevens’ Girl On The Third Floor takes the classic haunted house framework and weaves an original story that pulls...
Director Joe Lynch wears the epithet “deranged” like a badge of honor. His newest movie Mayhem is evidence of that,...
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night was the sleeper hit of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. While the film celebrated its world premiere at Slamdance earlier this year with rave reviews, it flew under almost everyone’s radar and took home the festival Jury Prize for Best Feature. Nightmare on Film...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
DESCRIPTION: Summertime is monstertime, and this week on the Nightmare on Film Street horror movie podcast, we’re talking the biggest...
Superheroes are everywhere. Between a new Marvel movie at least once a year and DC’s attempts at breaking into the market, the world has its fill of capes, tight suits, and maniacal villains. So how can someone deliver something new to a genre monopolized by two big brands? Make it...
Going into a movie blind is my favorite way to discover a film. Nowadays, we carry spoiler boxes in our...
Sacrifice (2021), written and directed by Andy Collier and Toor Mian, takes a subtle approach to slow-burn folk horror in...
M. Night Shyamalan’s trilogy-concluding Glass made its way to theatres this weekend, effectively ending my almost three year stretch of avoiding superhero movies. I haven’t been protesting those cinematic universes, but keeping up with that world was exhausting. If I had to guess, I’d say I’ve missed somewhere in the ballpark of...