The atmosphere surrounding Locke & Key‘s infamous Keyhouse exudes mystery, darkness and wonder. It boasts endless possibilities and bottomless secrets...
The nightmare begins again with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a new cinematic adaptation of the popular video game series....
Was there ever a crime-thriller that came out of the United Kingdom that you weren’t immediately afraid to watch? Sure, they follow the same story beats but they play by entirely different rules. I still shudder thinking about some the smallest, cruelest moments in Danny Boyle’s A Shallow Grave (1994). Abner...
Hear me out: every musical genre has a vampire film to match it. Bela Lugosi’s OG Dracula pairs with something...
In the new dark comedy Arizona, Danny McBride plays a villain who’s convinced he’s still a good guy, despite a...
I was talking with a fellow member of the press the other day on what qualifies as an opening movie for the Fantasia Film Festival. Based on last year’s opening film, The Villainess, my guess is that it would have to be both high-adrenaline and visually stunning. In that sense,...
Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is not only a transformative film for her career, it presents the classically beautiful Nicole Kidman has...
The new Indian horror-fantasy Tumbbad is a dark and dangerous story of one man’s greed for a fallen god’s gold. Like all men...
[Fantastic Fest Review] THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK is A Brilliantly Tense Noir Fueled By Paranoia
Henry Dunham’s The Standoff At Sparrow Creek celebrated its US premiere at the 2018 Fantastic Fest, stunning and disarming every single person in attendance. At least, I assume it did because I stumbled out of the theater in a daze, unable to even formulate words. Like the first time I saw...
It’s always impressive when a horror movie can pay homage to its influences without feeling repetitive. The movies that get...
It’s rare that a movie comes along that completely upends your expectations. Relaxer is one of those films. The latest...
Analog-obsessed modern horror maestro Scott Derrickson is back from his brief jaunt in the Marvel universe with The Black Phone. This eerie tale of missing children (spoiler alert: they dead) is adapted from the Joe Hill short shorty of the same name and co-written by frequent collaborators Derrickson & C....