Movie Reviews

From Sergey Lukyanenko, the mind that created the dazzling novels, Night Watch and Day Watch, comes a new sci-fi thriller directed by Sergey Mokritsky (Battle for Sevastopoi 2018) called A Rough Draft. It stars Nikita Volkov (Dance To Death 2017), Severija Janusauskaite (Unburied 2018), Vilen Babichev (Beyond the Edge 2018), …

Filmmaker Michael Moutsatsos (Stalkerazzi 2013) is a self-proclaimed movie nerd and horror geek. Channeling such films as Maniac (1980), Hostel, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he crafted a beautiful love letter to the grindhouse genre with 2019’s The Butcher, which will be available later this month on the Avail …

“If ghosts are real and haunt a specific location, then they must have some memory of who they are.” In the new film, Inner Ghosts, which was written and directed by Paulo Leite (Desencontros TV series), we meet Helen (Celia Williams: The Hunchback 2016), a gifted medium who lost both …

When it comes to Christmas, I’m a bit of a Scrooge. With few exceptions, I really don’t care for anything Christmas-related. One of the rare exceptions is Christmas horror films, which I absolutely love. Recently, I was given the chance to check out Bruce Blain’s new short film, Mad Santa. …

“I met a lady in the meads full beautiful – a faery’s child her hair was long, her foot was light and her eyes were wild.” La Belle Dame Sans Merci  by John Keats So begins the horror comedy Tennessee Gothic, a wild romp of a film directed by Jeff Wedding …

As we exit 2019, we look back on a very high-quality year for horror. This past year has spawned mainstream and indie hits alike. But, before you finalize your “Best Of” lists for the year, you might want to consider the psychological thriller, Daniel Isn’t Real, which made waves at …

Anthologies have never been front and center in the canon of horror sub-genres, but they do have staying power. Quietly loved by fans and enduring trends like zombie saturation and found footage, they have become a revered bastion of the classic horror formula. The stories themselves either come from books, …

Apocalyptic films have always been hit or miss with me. In order to appreciate the genre, one has to be able to see the beauty in desolation and rubble. As a self-proclaimed optimist, I often struggle with dystopian films that present bleak settings and themes. Radioflash is a film of …

From writer-director Graham Denman comes a fantastic, slick thriller called Greenlight that stars Chase Williamson (The Guest 2014), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986 – read our retro review here), Chris Browing (Westworld TV series), Nicole Alexandra Shipley (Criminal Minds TV series), Victor Turpin (Ma 2019), and Shane …

Eighteen years before the meta horror sensation that was Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (read our retro review here), Filmmaker Anders Palm directed a little known sleeper hit known as Unmasked: Part 25. Originally titled The Hand of Death, Unmasked: Part 25 is both an homage to and a …