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I recently had the privilege of watching Hellbender for the Fantasia International Film Festival, which is the sixth feature from Wonder Wheel Productions, the family-run production company founded by Poser and Adams and their children, Zelda and Lulu. The Adams family first screened at Fantasia with their award-winning The Deeper …
Read More »Fantasia Fest 2021: Igor Legarreta’s ‘All the Moons’ (2021) Is A Sad, Poetic Vampire Drama – Movie Review
In films and television, child vampires are often depicted as willful, angry, and petulant. They illustrate an ongoing theme of the difficulties of an immature mind being trapped an eternally young body. But the new movie, All the Moons, directed by Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me), chooses …
Read More »XXX Cannibal Film ‘Flesh Eater X’, Latest From SamHel – Movie Review
Prolific underground provocateur, SamHel, is at it again. After creating some of the most subversive and sought after titles for those that like to experience experimental cinema (Love Dump, Vania, Sadistic Pleasures), he’s back with Flesh Eater X. If this is your introduction to SamHel, let me assure you that …
Read More »Rob Reiner’s Sleeper Hit, ‘Stand By Me,’ A Stirring Yet Heartbreaking Tale Of Growing Up – Retro Review
As a kid growing up in the ’80s, I was lucky to have seen some of the now classic films when they first ran in theaters. Being able to experience flicks like The Lost Boys, Gremlins, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, and Monster Squad in the middle of a packed …
Read More »Gary Marcum’s ‘Through The Fire’ AKA ‘The Gates Of Hell Part II: Dead Awakening’ (1988) Vinegar Syndrome 2K Restoration Blu-ray Review
It’s time for another Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray review, folks! This time, we’re looking at Gary Marcum’s one and only time in the director’s chair, a Satanic panic film called Through the Fire (AKA The Gates Of Hell Part II: Dead Awakening). The script was co-written by Marcum and Brad Potter (Interface …
Read More »Fantasia Fest 2021: Kier-La Janisse’s ‘Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched’ (2021): A Comprehensive, Immersive Look At Folk Horror – Movie Review
Author/editor/Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies founder Kier-La Janisse’s (From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film, Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive) new documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, is a fascinating, …
Read More »Fantasia Fest 2021: ‘Things That Go Bump In The East’ Short Film Block Review
Recently, I had the opportunity to review a very interesting set of eight short films (one of my favorite genres!) for 2021’s Fantasia Fest in a shorts block called Things That Go Bump In The East. Chewing Gum (Chingum) Directed by Mihir Fadnavis and starring Ratnabali Bhattacharjee (Sold), Bandita Bora …
Read More »Fantasia Fest 2021 Review: ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Is A Haunting And Intense Drama Thriller
Director Edoardo Vitaletti’s The Last Thing Mary Saw premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival 2021 on August 15 and 17 and is, hands down, one of my favorite films I’ve seen this year. The Last Thing Mary Saw is a period occult drama set in an isolated farmhouse in the …
Read More »James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ (2021) – Don’t Get Too Attached, But Enjoy The Ride! – Movie Review
To start this off, I want to answer a question a lot of people have been asking about The Suicide Squad, especially since there seems to have been another movie released a few years back with a very similar name: What is it? A remake? A sequel? Honestly, more of …
Read More »Slaughtered Lambs: John Landis’ ‘An American Werewolf in London’ (1981) – Retro Review
Writer/director John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London was released forty years ago on August 21, 1981, and it is inarguably the greatest werewolf movie of all time. I’d also say it’s one of the best horror films of the ‘80s, a decade that’s absolutely saturated with genre classics. Notably, …
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