Julian Jarrold’s 2009 film, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, the first film in the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our reviews for the next two films here and here) opens in Yorkshire England, a place divided into historical Ridings, as young reporter, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), attends …

Patrick Magee’s stunning film, Primal Rage: Bigfoot Reborn (AKA Primal Rage: The Legend of Oh-Man), is a fresh, bold, new take on the Bigfoot genre. The film stars Casey Gagliardi, Andrew Joseph Montgomery, and Eloy Casados. It was filmed in the gorgeous, rainy Pacific Northwest mountains. The film opens with a …

In Mikey McGregor’s new thriller, Hide In the Light, a group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for when they break into an abandoned orphanage. The group find themselves facing a supernatural force that is looking for more souls. The movie opens in the building’s past, with the arrival of …

Caller ID Entity, a new movie by director Eric A. Zimmerman, looks at the shadowy world of mind control experiments and the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the body. The film opens as a raving man staggers through the streets, clutching his head as he hears electronic voices no one …

Based on Caleb Carr’s amazing bestseller, The Alienist is a new TV series on TNT that deftly combines period drama, murder mysteries, and psychological thrills. The title refers to a term used to describe how the mentally ill were seen as alienated from their normal selves, so those who worked with …

Before there was the horror sensation that was The Ring, there was the classic Japanese horror film Ringu. January 31, 2018 marks the 20 year anniversary of this incredible piece of horror history that opened the door in the United States to many other great Asian films and remakes to …

Based on the horrifying true 1993 murder of two-year-old James Bulger, Bartosz M. Kowalski’s Playground sets the story in a stark, bleak Polish town. The movie revolves around three very different characters, each with their own very personal and sometimes terrible secrets that will propel them towards a shocking conclusion. …

Twenty years ago, on December 12th, was the release of Wes Craven’s revolutionary film that made sequels cool again: Scream 2. Written by Kevin Williamson, the film follows the survivors from the film Scream as they head to college. Much like the first film, the opening 10 minutes are a …

Based on real events, Ryan Colucci and Dragan Roganovic’s Suburban Cowboy is a dark, gritty journey into the underworld of drug deals and desperation. It stars Frank Raducz, Jr. as Jay, a drug dealer who finds himself in trouble when one of his associates robs a connection to the Serbian …

On August 15, 1986, director Michael Mann debuted his heavily stylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling novel, Red Dragon, as a movie called Manhunter. The film also featured our first glimpse of one of the most infamous characters in movie history: Hannibal Lector. Manhunter stars William Petersen as FBI agent …