Reviews

The 17th Door: An Immersive Horror Experience Launching 4th Consecutive Year

As the Halloween season descends upon us, invoking the insatiable need for creeps and scares that we all crave, there is one immersive haunt like no other gearing up in Fullerton, CA. Following the ongoing story of the twisted and disturbed college student, Paula, The 17th Door takes things to …

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‘The Toybox’ (2018) A Crash Course Movie Review

There are a lot of things that can catch your attention when wanting to see a new film, from the trailer, movie poster, director, actors or even just hearing about it from word of mouth. It was reading an early review of the film that did it for me for Tom Nagel’s …

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‘Dead Cells’ (2017) PS4 Review

The success of 2D action/platformers of the eighties and nineties has inspired a lot of great games in the past decade or so. But none of them hits that perfect level of nostalgia and gameplay quite like Motion Twin’s Dead Cells. Check out the trailer to get a sense of …

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Do You Believe in Aliens? Movie Review of ‘Beyond the Sky’ (2018)

Living in Arizona, I am no stranger to hearing about UFOs and stories of alien abduction. We’re almost as synonymous with aliens as New Mexico and Area 51 are. We’re home to Travis Walton, the subject of perhaps the most famous abduction story ever. If you’re not familiar with Travis …

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Review of New Zombie Film, ‘Patient Zero’ (2018)

When you watch zombie movies, typically, you root for the humans, right? Let me just say that the 2018 film, Patient Zero , may just have you unintentionally rooting for the zombies! Patient Zero (2018) is a action horror film that is written by Mike Lee (Dark Summer 2015) and directed …

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‘The Mermaid’s Song’ is a Dark Fairy Tale that Deconstructs the Princess Myth

The horror genre can always use more dark fairy tales, and while The Mermaid’s Song delivers the scares, they’re less grotesque, and more cerebral. And that’s exactly how I like them. Sure, the film has some body horror and kills, to be sure, but The Mermaid’s Song is at its …

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Nicolas Cage Rages In Revenge Thriller ‘Mandy’ (2018)

I love movies that take place during the ’80s… the clothes, hair, makeup, cars, and not to mention the references and the music. Oh, that magnificent ’80s music! There’s just something super extra fun about a movie taking place in the glorious ’80s that adds to the allure and excitement …

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Video Game Review: Big Bad Wolf’s ‘The Council’

The Council

Have you ever seen a game multiple times and keep passing it by because you assume it’s not your style? Then, one day, you give it a chance, and it turns out to be amazing? And you sit there, wondering why you didn’t play it sooner? That’s the exact experience …

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Movie Review – ‘Apocalypse Rising’ (2018)

Richard Lowry’s Apocalypse Rising (2018) is a mix of sci-fi, horror, and comedy all wrapped up in 83 minutes of pure entertaining glory. This movie creates its own track of footsteps as a combination of two popular television series: The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. There’s a subtle whiff of …

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‘Better Off Zed’ (2018) Movie Review

I used to really love zombie movies, but over the past 10 years or so, they have became a done to death (no pun intended) subgenre. While I’ve experienced burnout on zombies films, I do still dig the occasional zombie comedy. When I saw Better Off Zed on the shelf …

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