Isolation is a frequently effective plot device in horror. There are few things more terrifying than being cut off from any potential savior while *insert horror villain here* is trying to kill you. Bringing to mind films like The Thing, and more accurately, 30 Days of Night, Josh Gerritsen‘s Island Zero places …
Read More »‘The Lodgers’ (2018) Review: As Fate Would Have It
Brian O’Malley’s The Lodgers bleeds luscious Gothic beauty from its first frame to its last. O’Malley, intact with an old-school style of genre film-making, has, above all, crafted a ghostly tale that, in regard to its aesthetic, feels like a classic horror film in a modern era. It’s gorgeous, ghostly, …
Read More »‘The 12th Man’ (2018) is a Triumphant Tale of Survival
The following review of The 12th Man is spoiler-free. If you’d told me fifteen years ago that the director of the Frankie Muniz-starring Agent Cody Banks was capable of crafting one of the greatest World War II films ever made, I probably would have hit you over the head with …
Read More »Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’ is the Superior Slasher Film Series
I have come here to chew bubblegum and give unpopular horror movie opinions – and I’m all out of bubblegum. At the risk of internet-shaming and hate mail, I want to speak a quiet truth that genre die-hards would consider blasphemy. In a community that worships the films of Halloween, …
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