80%
Found footage is always shifting and morphing to fit the current digital age. And right now, it’s all about online...
80%
Interviewing filmmakers gives you an insight into how much work goes into a single movie. Several years could pass between...
86.25%
Not since The Blair Witch Project has a found-footage movie been so cryptic about its origins. The severe lack of information about the making of Murder Death Koreatown is frustrating for anyone who craves answers. No director is publicly listed, and the identities of the cameraman or any of the...
72.5%
Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
95%
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson...
45%
When the trailer for Daniel Farrands’ The Haunting of Sharon Tate was first released, people had concerns. One of the biggest contentions was whether or not this film is disrespectful. After all, it dramatizes how Sharon Tate and her friends were brutally murdered by people from Charles Manson’s cult in...
There’s a questionable statistic making the rounds on the internet that suggests that the average person unknowingly passes at least...
I’ll admit, other than appreciating the odd festival where you’ll find me buzzing in the corner of a beer tent,...
Something interesting: The vast majority of horror movies and thrillers are set in the past. Partially due to nostalgia being so hot right now, but also due to the fact technology can solve just about any genre film plot. However, Searching chooses to embrace modern technology, crafting a wildly intelligent and creative...
Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a film that doesn’t let up. The intense cat-and-mouse thriller from IFC Midnight...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ similar tactics in their formatting, trying to evoke a ‘this is totally real and not at all fictionalized‘ experience, I always held the firm belief that ‘on screen’ movies were...
