The lastest entry into the mad-doctors-gone-mad sub-genre, Alive celebrated it’s Toronto premiere at the the 7th annual Blood in The Snow Canadian...
It’s rare for a film to completely throw you for a loop, becoming an experience beyond anything you expected. I...
Revenge, the feature debut of French director Coralie Fargeat, is a miraculously visceral experience. It brilliantly reclaims the controversial exploitation subgenre of the rape-revenge film, all while delivering a stylish and thrilling bloodbath. Among horror and exploitation fare, the subgenre of the rape revenge film has always been especially divisive....
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
I’m no stranger to late-night parties at a packed Brooklyn dive bar. But I have to admit, the afterparty on...
Director Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die is out now in theaters, and audiences are already raving about the funniest, weirdest zombie flick to come out in ages. And what everyone seems to agree on is that the film’s strength comes from its cast of characters, with folks like Bill...
I first came across Michael Peterson’s work when my friends and I watched his debut feature Lloyd the Conqueror for...
I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
Quinn Armstrong’s Survival Skills celebrated it’s International Premiere at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival. It’s a delightfully dark oddity of a films where the subject of an instructional video cassette becomes aware of his own existence. Survival Skills is truly one of the strangest, most impressive films we saw at Fantasia this year...
What would you do if you were trapped on a boat with two of your friends, and no food or...
The subject of an instructional video cassette becomes aware of his own existence in Quinn Armstrong’s debut feature Survival Skills....
The Brothers Grimm and the like laid the groundwork for modern storytelling. From damsels in distress to wicked parental figures who sacrificed their own young, these antique fables have shaped today’s narratives in countless ways. Although their undiluted forms can be entirely too gruesome for younger listeners, these often morbid...