Movie Reviews

What do you get when you mix the Ghost Adventures TV series and Evil Dead (1981)? A new horror film called Portal (2019) that was written by Peter Dukes (Escape Room 2017) and Dean Alioto (Shadowheart 2009, Quarries 2016), and directed by Dean Alioto (Lizzie Borden Had An Axe 2004). The …

I’ve always enjoyed Along Came the Devil and was definitely intrigued when I heard about its sequel, Along Came the Devil 2. Would it be as good at the first, or fall flat as many sequels do? Visionary, Jason DeVan (Along Came the Devil), who co-wrote the film with his …

When I first heard about Dementer, I knew this was a film that would resonate with me. Something I would connect to. Beyond my writing career, I also have a bachelor’s degree in Human Services and Psychology. I’ve worked with people who have physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities for the …

You don’t need to believe in the paranormal to feel haunted. Ghosts, by and large, represent the restless, buried things in life, be they personal secrets like the spectral women of Crimson Peak, warning the new young bride lest she suffer the same fate, or larger, societal sins like the …

From the second The Furies trailer dropped a few months ago, it exuded the feeling of an old school slasher. This little taste of a modern day game of cat and mouse captured tension and left viewers waiting to see what kind of monster lay around every corner. Let’s look at this …

One of my favorite and enchanting horror films this year is Gwen. The perfect folk horror story. I was stoked to check out the Blu-ray and see the magic unfold. This film was directed and written by William McGregor (The Missing TV). It stars Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), …

Writer/director Jason Krawczyk made a name for himself in the cult genre channels with his horror comedy hit, He Never Died (read our review here). The film saw Henry Rollins (Z Nation 2017) star as a loner immortal cannibal, hiding himself from the world in order to contain his temptations to …

Last year, I discovered the multifaceted world of Dustin Wayde Mills’ films when I reviewed his films, The Hornet’s Sting and the Hell it Caused (2014 – read my review here) and The Hornet’s Disciple and the Scars She Left (2018 – read my review here). I have been a fan …

Writer/Director Juval Marlon has unleashed his latest film atrocity, Sturmgewehr, upon mankind. The underground Swiss filmmaker, who runs Beheading Films, has been releasing more and more disturbing material, starting with short film Torture Fetish and Dead Baby Mutilation. Marlon then took a break from underground, snuff-style gore, making a film about local …

The tagline for Tobe Hooper’s classic horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre asks “Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?” While the marketers behind the line literally refer to the chainsaw mutilations and slaughterhouse gore of Leatherface’s exploits, they inadvertently got to the central question of all …