Going into a movie blind is my favorite way to discover a film. Nowadays, we carry spoiler boxes in our...
Anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (read: everyone) knows there is nothing more terrifying than snow when combined with...
Journalist & Filmmaker David Farrier has a weird beat. In fact, his weird beat is: Weird People. In his 2016 documentary Tickled he was on the hunt of an elusive “tickle porn” producer, and in his 2018 Netflix series Dark Tourist he travelled the world in search of all kinds of...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ...
I’ve seen too many slow burn creepers that over promise and under deliver to get excited when I read the...
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...
The 2018 Overlook Film Festival was proud to host the world premieres of several highly anticipated films this year. Among...
For many, being or becoming a parent can be scary. For the young couple in Still/Born, parenthood is downright terrifying. Still/Born, the directorial...
Blumhouse’s newest supernatural horror Stephanie is finally getting a wide release, landing on DVD this week. An unfortunately quiet release, but don’t despair – Stephanie is certainly worth the watch. The team behind it is the cream of the crop. The director is Akiva Goldsman, Academy Award winner for A Beautiful...
The 2022 Overlook Film Festival returns to historic New Orleans, Louisiana beginning June 2nd for a 4-day weekend of weird...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury...
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism is not your average exorcism movie. Directed by Nick Kozakis, from a screenplay by Alexander Angliss-Wilson, this supernatural spiritual horror is as much a true crime docudrama as anything else. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Guy walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says, “Hey,...