Reviews

Julian Jarrold’s 2009 film, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, the first film in the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our reviews for the next two films here and here) opens in Yorkshire England, a place divided into historical Ridings, as young reporter, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), attends …

Netflix’s Veronica has certainly attracted a lot of hype and attention. Is it everything it’s cracked up to be? Sometimes expectations can be a killer. I’m sure by now any horror fan with a Netflix subscription has heard about the sensation that is Veronica and undoubtedly been bombarded with the …

To most of the world, the idea of a visit to one’s grandmother’s house gets the heart pumping… but more because of the upcoming awesome snacks than any expected bloodshed. In Les Mahoney’s Hitchcockian thriller, At Granny’s House, you’re much more likely to get a little of the former and …

Filmmakers be warned: if you want to make a realistic horror film, make sure your actors and actresses are in on it, or there could be hell to pay. That’s the lesson we see in Mitchell Altieri’s (The Night Watchmen 2017) A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff. After viewing the trailer …

Dan Simmons is one of my favorite authors. His book, Summer of Night, takes the innocence and coming of age story from Stand By Me and wraps it in an otherworldly terror as intense and insane as an entire school foll of Pennywise the Dancing Clowns. So when I had …

What the Fest!? was a pretty awesome festival and I’m super grateful that PopHorror could help cover some of the films. They had an amazing lineup including the widely talked about cult story, The Endless. I had heard some pretty amazing things about The Endless from both critics and friends alike …

I know a lot of people are huge fans of the Insidious series. Although I enjoy them, I will say that I much prefer The Conjuring franchise. Both deliver intense performances with spooky supernatural situations. I wasn’t a huge fan of the third Insidious installment, but that didn’t stop me from watching Insidious: …

From director Dylan Reynolds comes 4/20 Massacre, a slasher romp about a few unlucky gals and their camping trip in the woods. Before watching this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Could it be a campy, tongue-in-cheek gore fest, a straitlaced and serious no-nonsense slasher or a retro throwback to …

“Eye-scorching screen candy.” Mirrormask is a personal favorite film of mine, and with good reason. It’s all of that eye candy that left me begging for more! The film was created by two immensely gifted artists and storytellers, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, both of whom worked on the epic Sandman …

When I first picked Tigers Are Not Afraid (Spanish title: Vuelven) to review for this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But after watching the trailer and seeing the 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I couldn’t wait to start watching …