If we have learned anything from the cold open of Army of the Dead, it’s that road head usually leads to...
We all know Mads Mikkelsen is a badass. Stoic, debonair, and composed —yes, but still a stone-cold badass. That’s why...
As Violation premiered at TIFF 2020 and Sundance 2021, co-directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer revealed the inspiration for their debut feature. The duo joins the ranks of other new filmmakers and storytellers who are waging to make the horror genre a safer space for victims. They translate their own traumas for...
Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the...
Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before follows a woman’s obsessive grief and how her desire to reconnect with her deceased daughter upends the...
As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people think; screaming and laughing are both visceral reactions to whatever situation is presented before us. Building tension in a movie is similar to working towards the punchline of a joke,...
Full disclosure, I’ve never been to a single rave in my life. It’s not like the opportunity never came up,...
Love knows no bounds and as far as Into The Dark’s latest episode Tentacles goes, neither does intimacy. The Valentine’s...
“We are so tired of being good little girls.“ There being a great deal of coming-of-age stories about religious folks critically questioning their own indoctrination has to mean something. Those having grown up in a secular home may not fully know the ins and outs of that specific situation, but...
You know when cult king Nic Cage says a movie “might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made”, you’re in...
You’re going to want to take a big deep breath before sitting down to watch James Ashcroft’s Coming Home In...
Frida Kempff’s psychological thriller Knocking (Knackningar) is an eerie and unsettling tale of mental illness that takes the viewer deep inside the mind of an unstable narrator. The film bends and twists reality in small believable ways until you realize you’ve been under the same spell as your lead the whole time....