Reviews

One of the really cool things I get to do here at PopHorror is review films. Short films are my absolute favorites. Combine that with one of the best festivals out there and I am so in! I easily picked the short film block, Cabin Fever-Isolation Horror, for the Final …

New year, new movies! I’m so excited to start 2021 with one of my favorite fests, the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. This year, they’re screening 12 Hour Shift a film I’ve been wanting to see since I first read another PopHorror writer’s thoughts on it. The trailer is chock full …

Every horror movie fan has their favorite subgenres. You’ve got lovers of slashers, the paranormal, psychological, and even gore. One of my favorite genre topics is comedy horror. There’s just something about laughing at the most sick and twisted things imaginable that works for me. So when I was given …

Once again, I had the pleasure of reviewing a block of short films at another fabulous film festival! This time, it was The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021 Shorts Block: Young Blood. The festival describes the block as “these protagonists may be small, but they pack a punch. This …

I recently watched the new horror thriller drama, The Reckoning. This film was directed by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, Tales of Halloween) and co-written by himself, Charlotte Kirk (Ocean’s Eight), and Edward Evers-Swindell (The Descent). Charlotte Kirk also stars in the film alongside Joe Anderson (The Ruins), Steven Waddington (Sleepy …

Going into Eight for Silver, I was intrigued…  The only image upon the Sundance site didn’t convey much information besides it being a period piece, but the below synopsis described something like a modern yet original version of Universal’s Monster Classics, particularly The Wolfman and Frankenstein. For better or worse, …

In the wake of last year’s bizarre events chock-full of wild conspiracy theories and unnerving facts, there’s still a sense of uncertainty lingering in the air. This makes the prospect of a dystopian society eerily relatable. And, for this reason alone, the upcoming release of Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s feature debut, …

The New Zealand horror film Reunion is a meeting of several different ideas that don’t coexist well in this script. Psychological trauma, false memories, guilt, destructive paranoia, ghosts, the dark arts, the practice of alchemy, and some archaic form of cloning. The film is directed by Jake Mahaffy and stars …

Like most horror films I’ve seen, my first viewing was as a child. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was no exception. Like Jaws (1975), I could tell you exactly where I was and who I was with when I first saw it. Based on the 1955 novel, The Body …

“Trust him completely. After you have suffered a little while he will find you. He will make you pure…” — Sator In my years of watching films, I have seen movies with incredible dialogue, great stories, and fantastic special effects. But I have never seen a movie fully radiate a …