Reviews

Andy Fickman’s (Heathers: the Musical) Don’t Turn Out the Lights is quite a romp for me that left me a little torn, But I managed the basic things. I call to come in with an open mind and judge from there. Once I did, I felt it a lot more. …

George A. Romero is considered by most to be the father of the modern zombie horror genre. I will be real here, I am not a huge fan of zombie films, with the exception of Night of the Living Dead (1968). I didn’t see this film until I was an …

Rodger Griffiths’ Betrayal starts off with a bang, quite literally. Three brothers decide to shoot their father while out on a hunting expedition. But nothing really goes according to plan, and things escalate quickly. The film tells the story not only of the brothers’ plans to get away with murder, …

Holes. There’s lots of them in the first feature from Brian Yuzna & John Penney’s Dark Arts Entertainment. Fortunately for newly minted writer/director Jake MacPherson, Terror Firma (not to be confused with the Tromatic masterpiece Terror Firmer) has a big hole in a garden plot, but not in the actual …

Natural Born Killers is a controversial and provocative film directed by Oliver Stone that’s known for its intense exploration of violence, media, and the American psyche. It’s also known for spurring debates on movies and “copycat” crimes. The movie, released 30 years ago this month, is based on a story …

Okay, say you’re in Thailand and you want to make a quick buck. You’re thinking maybe shoot a movie, glomming onto the success of Jaws or maybe a Godzilla type flick. Jaws it is then, but you want to giant radioactive lizard in it too, so maybe not a total …

At the risk of coming off as if I’m pigeonholing an entire ethnic group, I will make the following statement (that I believe in my heart is 100% true): Italians have made some fucking bonkers films. Exhibit A: Rat Man. Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (Find A Place To Die), and …

With his new film Trap in theaters, M. Night Shyamalan seems to have picked up a steady rhythm of success since the critical downturn of his work in the late 2010’s. Since The Visit and Split, Shyamalan seems to have climbed out of the rut in which his string of …

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is the fifth installment in the popular A Nightmare on Elm Street horror franchise, directed by Stephen Hopkins and released in 1989. The film continues the story of Freddy Krueger, the iconic dream-stalking killer, as he terrorizes a new group of …

In the pantheon of American serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas will always stand out. The way he matter-of-factly confessed to countless depraved acts, to the freewheeling way he would confess to crimes he likely didn’t commit (law enforcement from around the country would feed him details to clear their unsolved …