Captain Howdy

Movies are my air. You can find me writing about them, specifically my adoration of the horror genre, in various places, such as: 1.) The white tile floors of abandoned Kmart buildings across America 2.) The back of Taco Bell receipts when cashiers ask me to take the online survey 3.) Your mom's diary

Review: Island Zero (2017) Gets Lost at Sea

Island Zero

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 …

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‘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, …

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‘The 12th Man’ (2018) is a Triumphant Tale of Survival

The 12th Man still

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 …

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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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