Whether you’re a student in the middle of the back-to-school madness or just an average Joe who loves the smell...
Jesse Thomas Cook’s cult-busting, gut-busting indie flick Cult Hero recently celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival. The...
There is no shortage of horror films that center around cults. The word “cult” alone sparks immediate intrigue, and it is no wonder co-writer/directors Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite hopped on the bandwagon with their new film The Aviary. In the last decade alone we have seen a wave of psychological...
Mental illness is a monster in Addison Heimann’s supernatural thriller Hypochondriac. The debut feature from the director follows a young...
Family secrets come back to haunt in Daniela Carvalho and Ale McHaddo’s Deep Hatred. A good lesson we can all...
A few years ago it was announced that Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten had written a screenplay about Nicolas Cage playing himself. The film, it was reported, would follow the fictional Nicolas Cage desperately chasing his return to success, only to find himself in over his head. It sounded too...
What if God was more interested in punishing you for your sins than granting you un-restricted forgiveness for the gravest...
From Queensbury Pictures, those loveable psychopaths that brought you Girl On The Third Floor, comes an obsessive acid trip adventure...
As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people think; screaming and laughing are both visceral reactions to whatever situation is presented before us. Building tension in a movie is similar to working towards the punchline of a joke,...
As the world has learned to cope with the crippling anxieties and confusing comforts brought on by nearly a year...
Heroics are often measured by grand advances of valiancy under dire circumstances and outstanding actions on the frontline. Simply being...
Frida Kempff’s psychological thriller Knocking (Knackningar) is an eerie and unsettling tale of mental illness that takes the viewer deep inside the mind of an unstable narrator. The film bends and twists reality in small believable ways until you realize you’ve been under the same spell as your lead the whole time....