Psychological horror is an often overused label, but the new indie horror The Dead Center is the rare bird that...
Travis Stevens’ Girl On The Third Floor takes the classic haunted house framework and weaves an original story that pulls...
Director Nicholas Pesce generated considerable buzz with his directorial debut, The Eyes of my Mother (2016). Now, with Piercing, he returns to the realm of unexpected, disorienting horror. This time the gore is served up with a side of black comedy, retro styling, and Lynchian surrealism. “[Pesce]Â returns to the...
Demon possession movies, although constant crowd-pleasers, are often very predictable. The multi-million dollar Conjuring franchise has pretty much laid out...
The horror genre has always been unparalleled in how it handles trauma, but even Alex Noyer’s first feature film Sound...
Disney’s nostalgia-fuelled remake machine has two modes: the ones like Alice in Wonderland or Maleficent that try to put a new spin on the original story, or the nearly shot-for-shot remake option of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, or The Lion King. One of these categories has been successful, and the other has been...
Feral is the latest genre flick seeking to stretch its found footage muscle. Rather than opting for a grainy hand-held...
If you don’t like movies that give you anxiety, or stories that put children in danger, you’re going to want...
Hospitals are scary places. They’re where we’re most vulnerable. Either we’re visiting someone who’s sick or, even worse, we are the someone who is sick. There’s always something uncanny about the pure white walls, the strange existence for the people working there and the transient nature of just… being around...
Anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (read: everyone) knows there is nothing more terrifying than snow when combined with...
Is it possible to be a low-brow plot snob? Because if so, I definitely am. I like a story. With...
The nature of human existence and one’s perception of reality can raise questions by challenging our own fundamental experience. In David Rosenthal’s remake of Jacob’s Ladder (2019), we find ourselves confronted with grotesque visions, dreams, and traumatic flashbacks, all of which attempt to distort our judgment of what’s real and what’s...