Revenge, the feature debut of French director Coralie Fargeat, is a miraculously visceral experience. It brilliantly reclaims the controversial exploitation...
The Queen of Hollywood Blvd is an inspired love letter to 70’s crime films and grindhouse fare. But the film...
It should be noted that Get My Gun is a rape-revenge, pure and simple. It’s important that you go into this film with that knowledge, just so there are no unwanted surprises. You’ll thank me later. Rape-revenge films are generally divided into three acts, or—in the case of Get my...
The ground rumbles. Glasses shake. People look up, confused. Someone mutters, “it could be a dinosaur.” No, this is not...
Matthew Pope’s directorial debut Blood On Her Name is a tense neo-noir film about the lengths one woman will go...
Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a film that doesn’t let up. The intense cat-and-mouse thriller from IFC Midnight stars Brittany Allen (Jigsaw) and Hannah Emily Anderson (The Purge TV series) as a married couple vacationing in a remote cabin in the woods. Things turn dark when Jules (Allen),...
Everyone enjoys a good story of comeuppance. An audience can’t help but feel a sincere sense of jubilance when a...
Rarely do we find comedy in carnage, but debut feature director Kirill Sokolov marries the two cinema components with guts...
I first came across Michael Peterson’s work when my friends and I watched his debut feature Lloyd the Conqueror for the sole reason of hearing the end credit song. I wasn’t expecting to be scared sh*tless years later when I saw his sophomore film Knuckleball, a far deadly departure from...
The 2019 Fantasia Film Festival is home to surprising and shocking cinema and their Fantasia Underground program is the showcase...
It takes a lot of guts to tackle a slasher movie. With films like Halloween, Friday the 13th and Scream...
Sean Ellis’ The Cursed (Originally Titled Eight For Silver) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival as part of the festival’s Premiere program. The film features a wildly original take on the classic werewolf mythos and one hell of a hairy monster. Ellis wrote, directed, produced, and...