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...
Still/Born is new independent horror movie that has been making waves on the film festival circuit, taking home awards such as...
Is there anything the horror community can agree on more than a good ole’ meta movie? Horror fans have spent their entire lives surrounded by slashers, paranormal ghoulies, and psychological mind benders. We’ve learned them in and out, and know every beat. It’s hard to throw a curveball to a...
The 2018 Overlook Film Festival was proud to host the world premieres of several highly anticipated films this year. Among...
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, 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...
I’m going to preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 70’s, and did not get the...
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. 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...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury...
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 would assume, The Monster Squad was the greatest movie of all time, but it disappeared one day, never to return… That is of course until it was (finally) released on DVD after...
