Reviews

South Mill District (2018) Short Film Review

South Mill District takes place on earth after an alien war has pretty much destroyed humanity. The people that are left are remnants of Eon Corporation’s experiments, a company that created a disease called the Havoc Strain that turns humans into hosts for a deadly, mutated spider virus. Joe Meredith …

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FGBFF 2018 – Don’t Ever Change (2018), A Hilariously Disturbing Short

We’ve all heard the phrase “Don’t ever change” at one time or another in our lives. Usually people tell us this as in, “You’re so funny!” “Your personality is so great!” or “You have such a a big heart.” But what if someone was telling us to not change the …

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FGBFF 2018 – ‘Liz Drives’ Horror Short Review

I wasn’t sure exactly what this movie was going to be about. I love horror stories that involve road trips. For me, I come up with the best horror scenarios when driving through dark, desolate areas. So much could happen out in the middle of nowhere. You could run out …

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FGBFF (2018) – ‘Fry Day’ Horror Short Review

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 …

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FGBFF (2018) – Blood Sisters – Short Film Review

“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 …

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Lost Solace (2016): Comfort Lost Movie Review

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) …

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FGBFF 2018: What Metal Girls Are Into (2017) Short Film Review

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 …

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Book Review: THE CITY by S.C. Mendes (2017)

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.  …

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FGBFF (2018) – ‘The Day my Mother Became A Monster’ Short Film Review

The Day my Mother Became A Monster

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 …

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DIS Mandragora (2017) Film Review

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 …

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