Joining prime examples of the power of good filmmaking is director Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, a film with a truly bizarre...
Some people collect stamps. Others collect books, records or mini slasher action figures. And then there’s Nathan Barr. Along with...
What’s up, weirdos? Welcome to a special happy horror-days installment of Awfully Good, where we celebrate movies that aren’t conventionally attractive. It’s also Cold-Blooded Killers Month here at Nightmare on Film Street, so tonight’s feature *had* to be Jack Frost. Nothing is colder than a snowman with the soul of a serial killer....
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As a fervent fan of anything Alien (1979), I was initially sceptical about Director Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Memory: The Origins of Alien. I...
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Fair or not, films that have their release dates pushed back or flat-out shelved indefinitely tend to be looked down...
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Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s the cover art to an old-timey (fictional) board game called “La Bail’s Gamble.” Over its retro Milton-Bradley scenery is a grinning vaudeville fiend, cackling with some horrible expression of certain...
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The opening of Robert Olsen and Dan Berk’s (The Stakelander) new film, Villains, sets the tone for the events to...
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I’ve never participated in the PG-13 debate. Not because I don’t have an opinion on the matter, but because I...
When Brian De Palma’s Phantom of The Paradise was released to theatres in 1974 it was an immediate flop. The movie failed commercially and critically the entire world over, except, for some strange reason, in Winnipeg, Canada. In that single area Phantom of The Paradise was such a success that the film...
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Making a laugh-filled comedy with heart is next to impossible, and making a truly disturbing horror film can be a...
2018 was a big year for Joe Bob Briggs. His return with last year’s 24-Hour marathon on Shudder broke the...
There are few villains as iconic as The Ring’s Sadako. With her contorted crawl, low crackling growl, and waterfall of front-flipped hair, all she ever has to do to make an audience sink into their buckets of popcorn is merely appear. Even then, a simple appearance of her analog proxy, the...
