Reviews

I recently got to check out a new film called Accident. A movie that infuses Final Destination, 127 Hours, and Die Hard all into one disaster of a movie. Sounds crazy, huh? Accident is written and directed by Dan Tondowski. The movie stars Stephanie Schildknecht, Roxane Hayward, Tyrone Keogh, and Keenan …

Set six years after the first movie and directed by James Marsh, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) is part two of the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our review of the first and third films here and here) and features many of the same actors …

Sometimes, going into a film blind can be exciting and mysterious, while other times, it can be confusing and leave you wondering what the hell is going on. I had a mix of both when I watched Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s new horror thriller, Welcome the Stranger. Justin Kelly wrote and …

Julian Jarrold’s 2009 film, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, the first film in the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our reviews for the next two films here and here) opens in Yorkshire England, a place divided into historical Ridings, as young reporter, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), attends …

Netflix’s Veronica has certainly attracted a lot of hype and attention. Is it everything it’s cracked up to be? Sometimes expectations can be a killer. I’m sure by now any horror fan with a Netflix subscription has heard about the sensation that is Veronica and undoubtedly been bombarded with the …

To most of the world, the idea of a visit to one’s grandmother’s house gets the heart pumping… but more because of the upcoming awesome snacks than any expected bloodshed. In Les Mahoney’s Hitchcockian thriller, At Granny’s House, you’re much more likely to get a little of the former and …

Filmmakers be warned: if you want to make a realistic horror film, make sure your actors and actresses are in on it, or there could be hell to pay. That’s the lesson we see in Mitchell Altieri’s (The Night Watchmen 2017) A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff. After viewing the trailer …

Dan Simmons is one of my favorite authors. His book, Summer of Night, takes the innocence and coming of age story from Stand By Me and wraps it in an otherworldly terror as intense and insane as an entire school foll of Pennywise the Dancing Clowns. So when I had …

What the Fest!? was a pretty awesome festival and I’m super grateful that PopHorror could help cover some of the films. They had an amazing lineup including the widely talked about cult story, The Endless. I had heard some pretty amazing things about The Endless from both critics and friends alike …

I know a lot of people are huge fans of the Insidious series. Although I enjoy them, I will say that I much prefer The Conjuring franchise. Both deliver intense performances with spooky supernatural situations. I wasn’t a huge fan of the third Insidious installment, but that didn’t stop me from watching Insidious: …