Reviews

In 1989, the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair in Florida. He admitted to killing at least 30 young women and young girls. On the eve of his execution, there was a tailgate party in a field across from the prison. Laura Moss’s film Fry Day uses …

“Blood to blood, sister to sister…” Bonding can be a beautiful thing. That is, if you’re not performing a ritual to do so! As we dive into this year’s Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, we review one of the submitted short films, Blood Sisters!  (Synopsis provided by IMDb.com): Two friends (Emma …

Psychopaths have made numerous horrifying onscreen appearances since Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). This persona, which often exhibits extreme behavior, eventually evolved into a genre favorite in slasher horror films such as Maniac (1980) and Wes Craven’s 1996 classic Scream. However, films like Silence of the Lambs (1991) and American Psycho (2000) …

One of the perks of growing up with a Metalhead for a brother is that I honestly can’t remember a time when metal wasn’t part of my life. I grew up listening to Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne and Guns & Roses, among others, and my taste in metal grew heavier …

When sitting down with a novel by a new author, I rarely expect little more than a predictable, clichéd-as-hell mishmash of words and situations. Going into The City by S.C. Mendes, I figured it would be read and relegated to the Emergency Toilet Paper pile. Thankfully, Mendes proved me wrong.  …

Horror shorts will never cease to amaze me. The amount of beauty and darkness that can be told in such a short period of time is truly brilliant. The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2018 has an amazing lineup of talented directors who have created unique, horrific, and well-crafted stories. It’s …

An exploration into the dark depths of nature both horticulturally, socially and spiritually, DIS is a high art journey of torture, restitution for sins past and a garden which feeds off the literal bodily fluids or seed of human sinners. Director Adrian Corona is digging deep into the spiritual abyss here …

After watching this catchy little teaser for Natasha Austin Green’s horror short Dead. Tissue. Love., I decided to review the project for this year’s Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. Watch the video and you will see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/225867619 Dead. Tissue. Love. was written and directed by Natasha Austin …

Opening with a scream followed by deafening silence as the camera pans across a gore spattered room, dismemberment and a goldfish flopping in a pool of blood, Before We Vanish wastes no time captivating one’s attention. Appearing to be void of emotion, a young girl named Akira Tachibana (Yuri Tsunematsu) …

“Fuckin’ Draculas, bro.” Oh, the ’80s. For horror fans of a certain age, the memory of scouring the aisles of the local video store, analyzing the covers of VHS tapes and trying to find the coolest films with no internet recommendations to back up your choice… it was like trying …