As of lately, Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures have been kicking ass in the horror community. They’ve shown that they know what horror fans want with their success of the killer clown movie Terrifier (read our review – here), which everyone is still raving about. Now, it’s time to check …
Read More »‘Wildling’ (2018): A Coming-of-Age Creature Feature with Heart
Modern creature features in the horror genre typically revolve around a deformed, vicious beast that pummels and shreds its way to the end credits. Few films of today take the misunderstood Frankenstein’s monster approach to this subgenre. However, Fritz Böhm fuses this element with a unique, coming-of-age angle for his full-length …
Read More »‘Accident’ (2018) Movie Review
I recently got to check out a new film called Accident. A movie that infuses Final Destination, 127 Hours, and Die Hard all into one disaster of a movie. Sounds crazy, huh? Accident is written and directed by Dan Tondowski. The movie stars Stephanie Schildknecht, Roxane Hayward, Tyrone Keogh, and Keenan …
Read More »‘Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980’ (2009) Movie Review
Set six years after the first movie and directed by James Marsh, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) is part two of the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our review of the first and third films here and here) and features many of the same actors …
Read More »‘Welcome the Stranger’ (2018) Movie Review
Sometimes, going into a film blind can be exciting and mysterious, while other times, it can be confusing and leave you wondering what the hell is going on. I had a mix of both when I watched Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s new horror thriller, Welcome the Stranger. Justin Kelly wrote and …
Read More »‘Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974’ (2009) – Movie Review
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 …
Read More »The Story May Be True, But Is The Hype? Dissecting Netflix’s ‘Veronica’
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 …
Read More »‘At Granny’s House’ (2015) Movie Review
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 …
Read More »A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff (2016) – Movie Review
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 …
Read More »What the Fest? 2018: AMC’s ‘The Terror’ Is Dark, Disturbing and Desolate
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 …
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