71.25%
Mirrors, creepy children, and demons: a recipe for a decent, if not groundbreaking, horror movie. Behind You (2020) is the story...
71.25%
93.75%
In Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe turns his obsessive interests to William Friedkin’s...
We all digest horror films differently. Some of us get the heebie-jeebies from a good ol’ fashioned terrifying story because we can relate to the experiences of the characters in one way or another. Some of us find ourselves deeply affected by jarring sounds, spooky musical scores, and even the...
87%
Writer-director Jason DeVan’s Along Came the Devil, was released only last year, hitting the horror community with its slow-drip pacing,...
What puts the ‘haunt’ in a haunted house for you? Is it small spaces? Creepy crawlers? Morphed rooms? Masked monsters?...
83.75%
Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion of the penultimate safe space. The perfect cocktail for horror. Keith Thomas’ The Vigil takes that classic, terrifying format and drops it right in the center of an Orthodox Jewish...
88.75%
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
78.75%
Have you ever wanted a movie that is a hybrid of Ghostbusters, The Matrix, and Hellraiser? Have you ever even...
The Pierce brothers The Wretched recently held it’s Word Premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival, introducing the world to new Witchy rules and Witchy powers. “The vampire,” Brett Pierce shares with us, “has been developing over so long” with very specific strengths and weaknesses, but the traditional Witch is not a monster...
83.75%
Head Count is a very well made and well acted monster flick about isolation and paranoia that grabs you early on and won’t let go.
80%
Haunted dolls are a nightmare. Their porcelain faces are frozen in haunting smiles that ooze sinister intention. Their unblinking eyes...
Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real is a psychological horror that pits a fragile young man against himself and the horrors of his own psyche. The film stars Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger as an odd couple on the verge of insanity. in my spoiler-free review of the film, I called Daniel Isn’t Real “[a...
