Movie Reviews

From New York Times best-selling author Grady Hendrix, comes My Best Friend’s Exorcism, an all-new horror comedy directed by Damon Thomas (Killing Eve, Penny Dreadful) and written by Jenna Lamia (Good Girls, Awkward.) It stars Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade, Despicable Me), Amiah Miller (The Water Man, War for the Planet of …

Raven Banner Entertainment’s new dark and thrilling film, Everyone Will Burn (Y Todos Arderan), premieres tonight at Fantastic Fest. This is David Hebrero’s Spanish-language sophomore feature. Hebrero directed and co-wrote and produced with Javier Kiran. Everyone Will Burn stars Macarena Gomez and Sofía García. Following a world premiere at Sitges, …

Earlier this year, Ti West brought us X, a glorious amalgamation of schlocky ’70s sexploitation slasher films made with a modern style of storytelling and visual aesthetic. Almost simultaneous to the release of X was the announcement of a prequel, Pearl, that would shift the setting from the ’70s back …

As of September 19, 2022, Robert Kurtzman’s (The Walking Dead franchise) second directorial project, Wishmaster, is 25 years young. Starring Andrew Divoff (our interview) and Tammy Lauren, the film is about a young jewel appraiser (Lauren) who is given a stolen jewel to look over, one that happens to have …

There is nothing inherently wrong with remakes. The telling and retelling of tales is a practice as old as humanity. But with the ability to record and mass produce books and films comes the question: “Is this necessary?” The bar for this isn’t that high. Some films hold up well …

The Retaliators (2022) is a film that I’ve been wanting to see ever since it appeared on my radar after PopHorror’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival review. You may read another writer’s review here. The film sounds right up my alley. A horror-thriller about revenge, which who doesn’t love a good …

A fun fact: as a horror fan, I tend to not like gore for the sake of gore and anything considered extreme horror or torture horror. I usually avoid those movies like the plague. A movie that changed my mind to give some extreme horror movies a chance was Saw …

Downright Creepy has released its very first short film called PIROUETTE. The film was directed and produced by Peter Howard and Glenn Delaney. It stars Ani Priyo and Hannah Sims. Check out my review down below and then watch this creepy little horror short with the lights off! Synopsis for …

The Day After Halloween (2022): Two lifelong buddies must unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party. The Day After Halloween was an absolute pleasure to review. It’s one of those movies that builds as it goes. Might start out …

Cannibalism seems to be making a comeback in horror lately. In past generations of filmmaking, it was usually something done by an “other,” be it a long lost tribe like in Cannibal Holocaust or a devious doctor like Hannibal Lecter, there was always a degree of separation. Now, that separation …