We are closing in on the final weeks before the highly anticipated new film in the Predator franchise, The Predator, hits theaters. To get us geared up for it, we watched Uncork’d Entertainment’s sci-fi horror film, The Dawnseeker, which is advertised as an explosive new sci-fi horror actioner that pits five …
Read More »‘Nonsomnia’ by Maria Raven – Book Review
From Austin Macauley Publishers comes Nonsomnia, a collection of short stories by Russian author Maria Raven. Now living on Cyprus, Raven moved after a difficult childhood filled with years of both medical and psychological treatment, the result of being a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. She began writing at …
Read More »Movie Review – ‘Diane’ (2017) Is A Sad Dream
Director Michael Mongillo’s (Welcome to Earth 2005, Being Michael Madsen 2007) 2017 film, Diane, tells the story of a lonely disabled war veteran named Steve (Jason Alan Smith: Big Bad Wolf 2006, Before I Wake 2016) who becomes obsessed with a woman he found dead in his backyard. Steve is a …
Read More »Movie Review (2017): ‘The Song of Solomon’
So the other day I go out to my mailbox and find, amidst the rubbish (namely, bills), a package containing a Blu-ray. Oh, wonder what this could be? Opening it, I was greeted by the pleasant sight of a screener copy of the third entry in the American Guinea Pig …
Read More »Movie Review – ‘Sacred Heart’ (2016) Grapples with Questions of Faith and Justice
Written and directed by debut filmmaker Kosta Nikas, Sacred Heart (2016) has been released in the US this month by Gravitas Ventures. This Australian indie drama focuses on the protagonist Robert, played by Kipan Rothbury (Hill End 2014). and the crisis of faith he has following the hit-and-run death of his …
Read More »‘What Keeps You Alive’ (2018) Movie Review
We can never truly understand one another because an individual’s personality is an intricate cocktail of experience and organic disposition. Trying to fully grasp the depth, or lack thereof, when examining your partner’s actions is futile and often frustrating. One thing that most of us assume is that our significant other would never …
Read More »Tricia Lee’s Short Film ‘Meeting Mommy’ – Movie Review
I had the opportunity recently to watch Tricia Lee’s short film, Meeting Mommy. This film has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 13th Annual NBCU Short Film Festival and screened at this festival this past week. The film is one of 15 that was chosen from more than 3,400 submissions. The …
Read More »Horror Anthology ‘Blood Clots’ (2018) Gorges on Gore
As our longtime readers know, we at PopHorror are huge fans of horror anthologies, and we’re not alone. In recent years, there has been an uprising in anthologies, full-length films that are compiled of short films, usually created by completely different casts and crews, which offer up a a series …
Read More »‘Masterminds Incorporated: An Appointment With Fear’ by Chad Lee Erway Book Review
While I have my favorite go-to authors, I genuinely love to seek out and find new authors out there as well. I have been looking forward to Masterminds Incorporated: An Appointment with Fear by Chad Lee Erway since we first reported his campaign to get it published. So when I was …
Read More »Arizona (2018) is Trapped Between Two Movies (Review)
Set during the housing crisis of 2009, Arizona is a pitch-black horror comedy about an angry suburban homeowner who, instead of directing his frustration into some sort of therapy or accepting any responsibility for the way his life is falling apart, murders his real estate agent, kidnaps another, and goes …
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