Reviews

Recently I had a chance to check out a disturbing new horror short called Breathe. I didn’t know much about it beyond the fact that I loved the beautiful artwork. Little did I know that this story would end up being a total mind fuck and leaves you questioning whether …

A compromised or unreliable narrator calls into question everything that unfolds in a film. That uneven footing gives a story ambiguity. It allows the viewer to imprint more of themselves on the experience. Uncertainty, when used correctly, allows for deeper engagement from an audience. In the 2018 film The Harrowing, vice …

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson burst onto the scene in the mid 1990’s with a speculative screenplay he called Scary Movie. The Weinstein Company and Director Wes Craven produced the script and re-titled it Scream just before release. The rest, as they say, is history. Scream changed horror forever and made its screenwriter …

Directed by Luke Shanahan, Rabbit is a new psychological thriller featuring a very impressive performance by The Great Gatsby’s (2013) Adelaide Clemens. She stars as medical student Maude Ashton, who returns home to Australia when she has a series of dreams that lead her to believe she knows the whereabouts …

For 2 years in a row, the Women in Horror Film Festival in Peachtree City, GA has served up some of the very best female-centric horror on the planet earth. I wasn’t sure festival organizers Vanessa Ionta Wright and Sam Kolesnik could top 2017’s near perfect lineup of all-killer no-filler …

Gerard Butler is the mall Chinese food of action stars, and I don’t pay that compliment lightly. He may not be to everyone’s taste. Some might turn their nose up at the mention. But if you’ve got the taste the sheer animalistic hankering of the stuff, nothing hits the spot …

Indie director Gus Trapani might not be a name you are all familiar with, but after watching Shellmont County Massacre, I think you might want to check out some of his other work. Gus is a director that prides himself in guerrilla style filmmaking and who has a penchant for …

I have been watching a lot of found footage indie films recently, and while they have been pretty enjoyable for the most part, I’ve found that they all seem a bit cookie cutter when it comes to plot. I went into Jérôme Cohen-Olivar’s Little Horror Movie with much of the same expectations, …

Prodigy is not in and of itself a straight up horror movie. It’s more of a journey with supernatural elements and divine characteristics. This film chooses deep thought scenarios over outright violence and does a great job incorporating the element of an all-powerful being without coming off as preachy. Writer/director Nathan …

How far would you go to be successful? How much are you willing to sacrifice? These are they themes that A Brilliant Monster deals with. While this subject has been covered in other films over the years, this film covers this subject well on a microbudget, which is not an …