One bad night… One bad decision… Can haunt you forever. Bad Samaritan follows the cat-and-mouse game between struggling artist Sean Falco (Robert Sheehan...
Blumhouse’s newest supernatural horror Stephanie is finally getting a wide release, landing on DVD this week. An unfortunately quiet release, but...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used the ‘coming-of-age’ arch to tell stories about individual journeys, love, and loss. Horror is no different, even though it seeks the extreme of the spectrum. What better example of a...
In 1987 The Monster Squad introduced a generation of young horror fans to the Universal Monsters. For those kids (yourself included I...
It’s hard to describe the mood of Irish folklore. With film, there is the benefit of a physical manifestation; marshy,...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury Award for Scariest Feature went to the documentary Caniba. When jury members Peter Kuplowsky (TIFF Midnight Madness Programmer) and Toby Halbrooks (Director of A Ghost Story) presented the award, they...
Horror audiences have been impatiently awaiting The Conjuring 3 or one of its planned spin-offs; The Nun, The Crooked Man, Mrs....
There’s been a lot of discussion in the horror community of late on ‘what defines horror‘. Where we once were...
I’m going to preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 70’s, and did not get the opportunity of seeing The Exorcist in its original theatrical run. But, as a life-long horror fan, I’d yet to experience a screening that was so haunting, so deeply unsettling, I...
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is a high-octane depiction of futuristic violence and revenge. When polling attendees of the Overlook Film Festival,...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ...
The 2018 Overlook Film Festival was proud to host the world premieres of several highly anticipated films this year. Among them was a nasty little picture, that only the most depraved minds would find entertaining. So, of course, we lined up an hour early to guarantee our spot for Puppet Master:...
