Reviews

Texting and driving is a major issue, especially when it comes to young people. Usually resorting to cheap jokes and rhymes, most Public Service Announcements gloss over the deadly habit and what can result from texting behind the wheel. It’s rare that one actually tackles the issue head on in …

Adam Nevill’s 2011 novel, The Ritual, is a masterpiece of horror, a tense, highly atmospheric story with a Lovecraftian-esque monster and a sense of dread so thick you can cut it with a knife. Well, at least the first half of the novel is. The second half devolves into a minefield …

Sitting outside on a summer day can be one of the nicest, most relaxing ways to spend and afternoon. The sun shines on your face, the breeze cools your brow, and the birdsong lulls you to complacency. But what about the bugs? In Timothy Ryan Driscoll’s short, The Itch, one man …

It’s nothing new for atrocious acts of murder to be blamed on violence in film. The correlation between fake blood on screen and real-life bloodshed has been studied and analyzed for years with disturbed individuals crediting films such as Natural Born Killers (1994) and Scream (1996) for their actions. If …

Sometimes you watch a film and you’re left wondering what the hell just happened. It’s like you were in some type of space-time continuum and everything is a little fuzzy. That’s how I felt after watching the upcoming film, Black Hollow Cage. This mind-bending horror thriller was directed and written by …

Some of my personal favorite post-apocalypse stories encompass desolate landscapes after society has collapsed. Other personal favorite stories involve time travel and horrifying epidemic cases that effect human kind. One new indie film that combines all of this in one thoughtful and thrilling feature is a directorial debut by James …

Like everyone else, I thought the Hatchet series was finished with Hatchet 3. This trilogy has one of the greatest slashers of our time and I was sad to see it end. But then I found out that Victor Crowley is back! You have no idea how happy I am that …

This short is directed by Justine Raczkiewicz who also co-wrote the screenplay along with Amelia Gray. The cast includes Luke Baines and Sarah Bartholomew. Official Synopsis for Waste: Roger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with …

I’ve watched a plethora of shorts for the 2018 Final Girls Berlin Festival and they’ve all be exceptionally extraordinary. I recently watched my first full feature from the festival, The Book of Birdie. Did it live up to the rest? This bizarre new tale is directed by storyboard artist Elizabeth …

Most dolls have an innocence to them… unless they’re showing up in a horror movie. There’s “Good Guy,” who wasn’t exactly Andy’s best friend. Then we’ve got Annabelle who, in real life, is a Raggedy Ann doll turned evil. The Curse of the Witch’s Doll is a new film in the …