A glimpse into another world not too unlike our own isn’t exactly a novel format for the fantasy genre, but...
If you’re currently questioning your day-to-day reality, Rodney Ascher’s brain-scrambling documentary A Glitch In The Matrix will either be your...
[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into the vibrant, violent world of the Video Nasties. As a North American, “Video Nasties” were something I didn’t learn about until well after the British censorship craze has cooled. Heck,...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music...
South Korean supernatural horror Lingering (a.k.a Hotel Lake), as many ghost stories are, is a grim story about coming to...
Directed by Joe Marcantonio, who co-wrote the film with Jason McLogoan, Kindred stars Tamara Lawrance as a recently widowed and newly pregnant woman forced to live with the family of her deceased partner Ben (Edward Holcroft). They were just beginning to plan their lives together when tragedy struck and suddenly any chance of...
[Review] Move Over CONJURING Fans, There’s A New Ghost In Town And She’s Haunting 32 MALASANA STREET
If you’ve been waiting patiently for another chill-you-to-the-bone haunted house story since James Wan’s The Conjuring first scared you silly,...
From the mind of Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination, 2000) comes a new entry in the moral horror canon that lands...
Ghost stories, particularly of the classic Gothic variety, often have a deep air of sadness about them. Often taking place in large, cavernous, cold spaces, and told by narrators who have experienced tragedy, betrayal, heartbreak, or trauma, these elements continually pervade some of the greatest stories of the ghost variety. At...
There’s nothing like a good werewolf movie to help you ring in the foggy, full moon season. I’ll take a...
The slasher has outlasted its presumed expiration date, and then some. The golden age of this divisive subgenre is certainly...
This year, Fantasia Fest saw its share of movies that pushed the boundaries of reality. However, none of them did it quite like Lucky. Lucky tells the story of May, a bestselling author who is visited every night by a person who tries to kill her, an antagonist known only as The Man....