Movie Reviews

Death can be beautiful to some. Love can be cruel, and it can lead to horror. These were some of my thoughts as I watched Colin Floom and Greg Nemer’s 2018 film, Dead Love. It is a story of loss, grief, love, passion, cruelty, and death. Sometimes the blood just won’t wash away. So …

The Grand Son is a new film by Robert Logevall (All God’s Children Can Dance) about the strange and insular relationship between a woman Judy (Lesley Ann Warren: The Limey) and her two grandchildren, Tod (Rhys Wakefield: The Purge) and Lani (Fabianne Therese: John Dies at the End). The trio live …

Directed by Brini Amerigo, Dead House is the story of an average family whose night is interrupted by a trio of sick killers who break into their house. The film opens as the men are killing and torturing another family. Two of the men, Nibbo (Danny Cutler) and Testamento (Alex Lucchesi), …

Trigger warning for this film review: The Forest of the Lost Souls deals very heavily in suicide in many forms and it will be discussed in the review. If you or someone you love is contemplating suicide, you can find all help numbers here. Please talk with someone; there is …

Anxiety is a monster. Even on two separate medications for my own anxiety disorder, the illness is still prone to snarl its teeth and tear at my throat from time to time. Fear and dread are my life partners, and they’re both stone-cold bitches who are nearly impossible to live …

The 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival has been one hell of a ride, and sadly, it will soon be wrapping up. Although we covered a lot of the feature film hits, we are also giving some love to the shorts as well. On that note, here are my thoughts on …

It’s no secret that films that come out of Asia are usually great, for the most part. Whether it is horror or action (although comedy doesn’t get at much love at it rightfully should), we eat it up. Movies from Japan and South Korea usually get all of the attention, …

I’m always on the hunt for a new twist on the zombie genre. There’s only so much to be done with the undead, shambling shells of our former selves. One film on the Fantasia Film Festival circuit hopes to take up the challenge and make it less about the fight …

Lou Simon came onto my radar back in 2016 when I first saw All Girls Weekend. What stuck with me about this film was it was all women, made by a woman, with practical effects and enough of everything else to keep me interested. So when I was given the …

The hardest part of owning a pet is watching them get old and suffer, or so one would think. Try being the person that has to do the physical act of  putting the animal down. The 2017 movie, Euthanizer, delves into the mind of such a person and shows the darkness …