Reviews

Running With The Devil is a movie that’s so simplistic in its delivery that it doesn’t even have proper names for its characters, yet it aims to invest the audience in the personal backstories of the implicated. While this film may not reinvent the wheel in terms of the drug-running plot, …

Even before Jack Sholder’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Freddy’s character and powers were a bit confusing. This was, after all, an undead deviant who could attack and kill people in their dreams. By his very nature, Freddy messes with reality, threatening to overturn conventional logic. That …

One needn’t mince words about it: The Twilight Zone (read our retro review here) is one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology series ever to grace people’s living rooms. In fact, the CBS show was so well done, it’s almost shocking that it originally only lasted 5 seasons. In any case, …

Jessica Hausner’s (Lovely Rita 2001) film, Little Joe, is a new, unnerving, moody thriller. The film stars Emily Beecham (The Thirteenth Tale 2013), Ben Whishaw (Mary Poppins Returns 2018), Kerry Fox (Mayhem 2017 – read our review here), Kit Connor (His Dark Materials TV series), and Phénix Brossard (Riviera 2017). Synopsis: Alice, a single mother, …

The horror genre has a fascination with teens. Whether werewolf, ghost, masked killer or clown, the threat always comes for teenagers first if it can. I believe the teen is most often burned on horror’s bier because of their uncertainty. They are children in many ways, but on the cusp …

I’ve been a fan of Stephen King since junior high when I found a battered copy of Christine in my school library. I own most of his books and have read a pretty good chunk of them. A couple of years ago, I was gifted a copy of King’s The …

The Film from Hell winner of NFF 2019 is the incredibly brutal 29 Needles. Aptly enough, the film was screened at 2:00 AM during the Late Night Mind Fuck block on Saturday night. The title is a reference to notorious killer Albert Fish: when he was apprehended for over 100 …

Winner of the Best Short Film Cesar Award, Remi Allier’s Little Hands (Les Petites Mains) shows a violent situation from the point of view of two year-old child. The film stars newcomer Emile Moulron Lejeune, Jan Hammenecker (Cub 2014), Steve Driesen (Landes 2013), and Sandrine Blancke (The Son Of The Shark …

Who else is tired of the current video game landscape? Does anyone else want to travel back in time for a bit of nostalgic bliss? My time machine is busted, but my memory banks are full, so let’s take a trip backwards and talk about the NES! The original NES, …

The ’90s may be known as the decade that brought back the slasher genre to audiences with Scream, but it is also the decade that brought many creature features to us. Bats (1999) is one of them. Released on October 20, 1999, the film may not be as well know …