Director Joe Lynch wears the epithet “deranged” like a badge of honor. His newest movie Mayhem is evidence of that,...
Is there anything the horror community can agree on more than a good ole’ meta movie? Horror fans have spent...
The 2018 Overlook Film Festival was proud to host the world premieres of several highly anticipated films this year. Among them was a nasty little picture, that only the most depraved minds would find entertaining. So, of course, we lined up an hour early to guarantee our spot for Puppet Master:...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ...
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is a high-octane depiction of futuristic violence and revenge. When polling attendees of the Overlook Film Festival,...
I’m going to preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 70’s, and did not get the opportunity of seeing The Exorcist in its original theatrical run. But, as a life-long horror fan, I’d yet to experience a screening that was so haunting, so deeply unsettling, I...
There’s been a lot of discussion in the horror community of late on ‘what defines horror‘. Where we once were...
Horror audiences have been impatiently awaiting The Conjuring 3 or one of its planned spin-offs; The Nun, The Crooked Man, Mrs....
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury Award for Scariest Feature went to the documentary Caniba. When jury members Peter Kuplowsky (TIFF Midnight Madness Programmer) and Toby Halbrooks (Director of A Ghost Story) presented the award, they...
It’s hard to describe the mood of Irish folklore. With film, there is the benefit of a physical manifestation; marshy,...
In 1987 The Monster Squad introduced a generation of young horror fans to the Universal Monsters. For those kids (yourself included I...
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...
