Thoroughbreds is a nasty little thriller about two girls that conspire to murder an overbearing step-father. Estranged friends Amanda and...
I typically toss the ‘on-screen‘ or ‘desktop‘ sub-genre of horror films in alongside my Found Footage categorization. Though both employ...
The Overlook Film Festival takes scary very seriously, and it came as a small shock to attendees when the Jury Award for Scariest Feature went to the documentary Caniba. When jury members Peter Kuplowsky (TIFF Midnight Madness Programmer) and Toby Halbrooks (Director of A Ghost Story) presented the award, they...
Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a film that doesn’t let up. The intense cat-and-mouse thriller from IFC Midnight...
Something interesting: The vast majority of horror movies and thrillers are set in the past. Partially due to nostalgia being...
I’ll admit, other than appreciating the odd festival where you’ll find me buzzing in the corner of a beer tent, I don’t really do ‘hard’ music. There are a few macabre maestros I hold in high esteem, but my awareness of Death Metal, Norwegian Black Metal, and everything in-between were (and...
There’s a questionable statistic making the rounds on the internet that suggests that the average person unknowingly passes at least...
45%
When the trailer for Daniel Farrands’ The Haunting of Sharon Tate was first released, people had concerns. One of the...
95%
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson family in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, and we all know true crime obsession with cults has gripped the cultural zeitgeist. So how can a film stick out from...
72.5%
Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
86.25%
Not since The Blair Witch Project has a found-footage movie been so cryptic about its origins. The severe lack of...
Interviewing filmmakers gives you an insight into how much work goes into a single movie. Several years could pass between when the script is written and when the movie is released and a director’s job doesn’t end when the final scene is wrapped. It’s followed by endless months of post-production,...
