Reviews

I imagine all of us, at one time or another, have fantasized about trading places, or at least trading faces, with someone else. Haven’t we all dreamt about what it would be like to live in someone else’s shoes, even if just for a day… or maybe even just a …

It’s the time of year for Holiday horror films and I recently got to watch one that definitely stands out from the run of the mill Christmas horror stories. Await Further Instructions caught me by surprise and took me on one hell of a crazy ride. Was that ride one …

Just the other day the gorgeous and incredibly talented Cindy Maples presented to me her newest short feature, 98.%. That name instantly had me interested and I couldn’t wait to check it out as Cindy was eagerly passionate about this project. From Carriage House Productions comes a unique horror short …

Bursting out from the gore-crusted seams of Toronto comes the pulsating feast of death/gore/grind, Human Compost, who have just released a compilation on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions titled Exhumations Of Death And Horror featuring all of the band’s EP material dating back to 2013. Included are the EPs Degradation Of …

Hello, all! Johnny Macabre here, sitting down to post my first review as a new writer on one of my favorite horror news sites. And I thought, what with the holidays right around the corner, I would start with a personal Macabre Christmas tradition: David Steiman’s 2005 horror comedy, Santa’s …

Though it’s a bit understated, Crane Wilbur’s The Bat is an overall solid movie. Let’s look at why it works… even if it won’t necessarily knock your socks off and blow your mind. Many older movies offer hurdles for modern audiences. For one thing, plenty of them are filmed in black …

The Blood in the Snow Horror Film Festival is one of my favorite festivals of the year. After covering it last year, I got to review some of the best shorts and features I’ve ever seen. Now I’m here to say that the same can be said for BITS 2018. …

Another great horror short that hit the 2018 Women in Horror Film Festival was Heartless. This didn’t really surprise me all that much, as I’m a huge fan of filmmaker Kevin Sluder. I absolutely love some of his previous work, including Feeding Time and Mainline, which he executively produced. What …

Deadsight is a movie from Director Jesse Thomas Cook (The Hoard 2018) and is about a partially blind man named Ben Neilson (Adam Seybold: Let Her Out 2017) and the very pregnant police officer Mara Madigan (Liv Collins Cook: Pandora’s Box). The film opens with Ben in the back of an ambulance, …

Filmmaker Olaf Ittenbach is praised by gore fans all over the world for his own films such as Burning Moon, Black Past, Premutos, Dard Divorce, Garden Of Love, Beyond The Limits, House Of Blood, No Reason and also his effects work on countless films such as la petite mort, Mutation …