Movie Reviews

There is something about creature features that offers up a whole new level of creativity in horror. Not only does this subgenre serve as filmmaker’s own most terrible monster, but it also opens an imaginative world of options. From origin stories to motives (or lack thereof) to serious drama to …

Few directors of the ’70s and ’80s era of Italian horror are held in such high regard as Lucio Fulci. With gruesome titles like The House by the Cemetery and City of the Living Dead, it’s safe to say that this horror legend had his own refined style of goretastic thrills, chills …

Underground cult filmmaker James Bell has been knocking out some cool, surreal low budget films to grace this toilet earth lately. Hailing from Michigan, Bell has an endless number of horror shorts under his belt, including Nutsack, Phantom Of The Demon, Manuer, Lucifer’s Cosmonauts, Tantrum and Dog Dick. Let’s not …

I imagine all of us, at one time or another, have fantasized about trading places, or at least trading faces, with someone else. Haven’t we all dreamt about what it would be like to live in someone else’s shoes, even if just for a day… or maybe even just a …

It’s the time of year for Holiday horror films and I recently got to watch one that definitely stands out from the run of the mill Christmas horror stories. Await Further Instructions caught me by surprise and took me on one hell of a crazy ride. Was that ride one …

Just the other day the gorgeous and incredibly talented Cindy Maples presented to me her newest short feature, 98.%. That name instantly had me interested and I couldn’t wait to check it out as Cindy was eagerly passionate about this project. From Carriage House Productions comes a unique horror short …

Hello, all! Johnny Macabre here, sitting down to post my first review as a new writer on one of my favorite horror news sites. And I thought, what with the holidays right around the corner, I would start with a personal Macabre Christmas tradition: David Steiman’s 2005 horror comedy, Santa’s …

The Blood in the Snow Horror Film Festival is one of my favorite festivals of the year. After covering it last year, I got to review some of the best shorts and features I’ve ever seen. Now I’m here to say that the same can be said for BITS 2018. …

Another great horror short that hit the 2018 Women in Horror Film Festival was Heartless. This didn’t really surprise me all that much, as I’m a huge fan of filmmaker Kevin Sluder. I absolutely love some of his previous work, including Feeding Time and Mainline, which he executively produced. What …

Deadsight is a movie from Director Jesse Thomas Cook (The Hoard 2018) and is about a partially blind man named Ben Neilson (Adam Seybold: Let Her Out 2017) and the very pregnant police officer Mara Madigan (Liv Collins Cook: Pandora’s Box). The film opens with Ben in the back of an ambulance, …