Reviews

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 …

What defines a horror movie? Is it how much blood is shed? How big the kill list is? How many jump scares they can pack in? To me, horror is that, but also so much more. There have been many debates over subgenres like psychological horror and questioning if they …

I’m going to be honest… when I first saw the trailer for Day of the Dead: Bloodline, it looked promising. I know there have been a couple of attempts to resurrect George A. Romero’s 1985 classic. We had Day Of The Dead 2: Contagion and Day Of The Dead in …

If there’s one thing the timeless horror classic The Exorcist taught us is that most unearthed ancient artifacts should remain buried in the past. Hell, any film featuring an ouija board gives examples that some things are better left alone. The latest supernatural film to hit the indie scene, The …

What’s worse than spending Christmas with your family when they’re a bunch of assholes? How about when that asshole family starts killing each other? Welcome to Secret Santa. I had the pleasure of attending a screening of this new horror/comedy. The film was directed by Adam Marcus (Jason Goes to Hell: …

Made for TV B movies are usually hit or miss. As for Sea Beast, this one swung and missed completely. Where do I begin with this film? Writers Neil Elman and Paul Ziller managed to combine elements of The Perfect Storm, Predator and Jaws to create this movie. You would think combining …

“Resident Evil……Two.” The Resident Evil franchise as we know it today spans 22 years and at least 22 video games. It broke ground for the survival horror genre and their realistic graphics and sound made the games actually scary to play for the younger audience. The first game, released in …

When a psychotic masked maniac starts killing off your friends one by one, who do you turn to? Where do you run? You can’t go out alone, so you might as well stay close to your friends and hope for the best, right? Written and directed by Maxwell Frey (Ghost …