UFO horror is an acquired taste. Found footage horror is an acquired taste. Luckily, Skyman–both a UFO film and a...
Found footage is always shifting and morphing to fit the current digital age. And right now, it’s all about online...
The horror genre has always been used as a way to contextualize real-life problems. The more aware people become of the injustices around them, the more they channel their frustrations through their art. Body Cam is a glaring example of this. The movie is a direct response to ongoing discourse...
After its World Premiere at 2019’s Fantasia Film Festival, The Wretched quickly became a film to watch…literally and figuratively. Following...
The Invisible Man is an iconic image. (Yes, that’s kind of an ironic statement, but it’s true.) One that hasn’t...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into our society. It isn’t just a story of a murderous clown, it’s also about the horrors of growing up. The Wolf Man isn’t just about werewolves, Frankenstein isn’t just about reanimated corpses, Bird Box isn’t just about...
It’s almost impossible to properly review The Turning without talking about how it ends. Let’s just say that the finale...
If an app could accurately tell you the exact minute you’d die, would you download it? And say that app...
“What frame of any film has been more iconic?” asks Forrest Burgess, co-host of the Astonishing Legends podcast. “We all know what Jason Vorhees looks like, and Freddy Krueger. But all you have to do is show someone that outline, and they know immediately what that is.” Forrest is speaking...
Serving as a direct sequel, The Gallows: Act II is a sharp departure from the original. For the most part,...
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
I’ve never participated in the PG-13 debate. Not because I don’t have an opinion on the matter, but because I am quite evidently not the sole demographic of a movie that welcomes the butts of fourteen-year-olds parking front and center of a Friday evening screening (not too late, cause dad...