Valentine’s Day is the annual celebration of love, romance, and infatuation. Leave it to Blumhouse to prove Cupid’s holiday is not...
While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the...
I’m all about horror films that explore ancient fables and mythical creatures/beings. In Lifechanger, we follow one of these such beings. Premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal –Â Lifechanger is an isolating ailment, a fascinating legend, a horror story, and a love story all wrapped into one. Hundreds of...
A lot of people say they smoke pot to relax. But what if every time you lit up a fat...
There’s been a lot of discussion in the horror community of late on ‘what defines horror‘. Where we once were...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....
Vampires have gotten a bad rap as of late. The iconic monster of horror media seems to have fallen out...
Serving as a direct sequel, The Gallows: Act II is a sharp departure from the original. For the most part,...
Isolation and video games go hand-in-hand. Spending hours absorbed into a game with no company other than a joystick can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the detachment from the world can bring a sense of security and bliss, while the other can result in detaching...
It’s prom night. Your date is coming to your house to take you to the big dance. That wonderful feeling...
Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night was the sleeper hit of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. While the film celebrated...
Joining prime examples of the power of good filmmaking is director Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, a film with a truly bizarre premise that moved me through the sheer power of storytelling. It’s not unlike The Shape of Water (2017) in the way it makes the viewer deeply, emotionally invested in a...