Reviews

The announcement that Zack Snyder (300, 2006) would be remaking George Romero’s classic, Dawn of the Dead (1978) (read our retro review here) got a resounding, ‘that’s sacrilege!” from myself and my crowd, which, at the time, the only place we would be screaming this other than toward each other was …

There are a few films in my personal collection that I consider particularly brutal, and I only watch them once every so often. They’re not exactly light-hearted entertainment. The subject matter is gritty, real, and drawn out to an uncomfortable degree. Very realistic. Wes Craven’s original The Last House On …

If you’re looking for a true crime documentary that will make you feel all of the emotions, look no further than Pathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot. A recent release on Peacock, it provides an in-depth look at the man who killed not only 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, …

Poor emotional regulation apparently runs heavily in the White family genes. 25 years after the release of Stephen King’s novel, and 23 years after the award-winning film adaptation of Carrie (1976), we learned that the legacy of the White family had hardly stopped with Carrie (Sissy Spacek, Castle Rock, 2018), …

Available now on demand from Amazon Prime, Sheep’s Clothing directed by Kyle McConaghy, written by Kyle McConaghy, Nick Heyman and Aaron Pfifer. Sheep’s Clothing stars Aaron Pfifer as Mansa, Nick Heyman as Pastor, and Sean Heyman as Terry.  Synopsis A violent attack leaves high school principal Mansa Harper with a …

If there’s one person capable of capturing the psychological unraveling of a tortured writer, it’s Stephen King. His novella, Secret Window, Secret Garden was published in the collection, Four Past Midnight (1990). It depicts a writer whose life is in shambles and whose mind is sure to follow. Adapted for the …

Blumhouse has done it again. From M3GAN to Five Nights at Freddy’s (our review), the LA-based production company has been dominating the PG-13 horror space over the past few years. And it’s newest addition to the family — Imaginary — is yet another eerie delight. A few days before the film’s official March 8 release, …

For the most part, the Universal monster films I saw as a kid (Saturday afternoons when I was a wee lad on WUAB 43 out of Cleveland, Super Host!!) were pretty engrossing to my pre-adolescent mind. Lugosi’s Dracula was creepy, as was Karloff’s muted menacing in Frankenstein, but the full …

2015’s The Slashening was a solid, hilarious horror/comedy film filled with enough gags, gore and winks and nods to the audience to satisfy even the most ardent of Troma fans. Finally arriving on Blu-ray, writer/director Brandon Bassham’s (Shakespeare’s Shitstorm) 2021 gonzo, irreverent sequel, Slashening: The Final Beginning takes it up …

Blumhouse’s Imaginary (2024) hit big screens this weekend with tepid reviews due to the oversell/underdeliver factor that can come with taking on such a high concept with the intent to keep it sleek and simple. But if there’s one thing horror fans are good at, it’s finding potential scares in unlikely …