95%
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson...
95%
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on...
96.25%
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular board game of the same name. After 34 years, that film not only remains hilarious (Flames! On the side of my face!), but it also feels socially relevant in ways...
95%
What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this...
78.75%
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
62%
SCORE
Shark movies. It’s kind of hard to mess them up. You take your camera-happy (or shy, if you’re Steven Spielberg) sharks, throw them in some sun infested waters (or not, if you’re the 47 Meters Down franchise), and pull out an iron-clad audience pleaser. “47 Meters Down: Uncaged channels Jason...
70%
The deadly game that destroyed the lives of five high school students is far from over in the first half...
There are few villains as iconic as The Ring’s Sadako. With her contorted crawl, low crackling growl, and waterfall of front-flipped...
73.75%
Pizza, Satan, and secret societies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a horror-cocktail more universally inviting. It’s no surprise Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic was the top of Overlook 2019 festivalgoer’s Must-See lists. Pizza and mayhem are our kryptonite. Written by spooky wordsmith Grady Hendrix (author of Paperbacks From Hell, Horrorstor, My...
70%
SCORE
It only took one film for comedy veteran Jordan Peele to become Horror’s darling. Get Out catapulted him into an...
Who says the season of scares ends after Halloween? When you really think about it, Christmas is terrifying. And the...
A last-minute addition to the 2018 Fantastic Fest schedule, Richard Shepard’s The Perfection was definitely not a hard decision. Fitting right in with this year’s musical-minded genre fair – nestled comfortably among Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria scored by Thom Yorke, the simplistically synthy Halloween scored by John Carpenter, and the strange, danceworthy...
