Pizza, Satan, and secret societies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a horror-cocktail more universally inviting. It’s no surprise Chelsea Stardust’s...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ...
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...
Carter Smith’s breakout short film Bugcrush shocked and awed audiences at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Horror fans will no doubt...
I’m going to preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 70’s, and did not get the...
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...
Pregnancy horror rages on in Alexis Jacknow’s Clock, adapted from her short film of the same name in which a...
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is a high-octane depiction of futuristic violence and revenge. When polling attendees of the Overlook Film Festival,...
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...
Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic recently celebrated its world premiere at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans. The second film...
Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night With The Devil is a retro-fied joyride through a 1970s late night talk show, during an...
Going into a movie blind is my favorite way to discover a film. Nowadays, we carry spoiler boxes in our back pocket – making blind discovery a rare occurrence. We’re so inundated with tweets, reactions, and feedback to films that haven’t even come out yet, it seems some of us...