Reviews

In life, there are certain fates that are hard for us to accept. The hardest, of course, is losing a loved one. Some never come to terms with that kind of loss. Director and writer Andrea Niada (Here We are Now 2014), brings something new and fresh on this concept with …

The bathtub… a place to wash away all of the stress of your day. It’s also a place where women can fall victim to psychos, aliens, or spirits. But don’t worry – it’s Nothing A Little Soap And Water Can’t Fix!  (Synopsis provided by IMDb.com): In films, as in life, …

The forest. The dark. It encloses you into a naturally creepy environment. Four girls alone in the woods decide to play a game of Spotlight. It is a game of hide and seek with a flashlight. You have a person who is It. They count backwards and when they reach …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …