Reviews

When The Barn hit streaming in 2016, it made genre audiences feel as though they were taking the journey with the characters, as opposed to just watching them on the screen. The film starred two lovable, average guys and a host of nostalgic-looking monsters. It was a love letter to horror …

I was recently given the opportunity to read and review author John James Minster’s book, The Undertaker’s Daughter. I don’t take on many book reviews because they take a lot longer to finish so there’s only so many I can do at once. But when I read the book’s synopsis …

Where was Jennifer Aniston before she became rich and famous on a generically-titled sitcom? Well, like a lot of us, she was being pursued by a demonic little Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) who was horny to get his gold back. The question is, should Aniston be embarrassed by this movie? Sure! …

It seems only yesterday that it was 2007, and I was dragging my friends with me to the movies to see the latest Tim Burton project starring Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows, 2012), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In my eyes, this dynamic duo could do no wrong. …

One of the latest additions to the Unearthed Films catalog is Marcel Walz’s, La Petite Mort. Conceived in 2009, Walz’s early walk on the wild side features the priceless FX talents of Olaf Ittenbach. If that name isn’t ringing a bell, well, ol’ Olaf is responsible for the likes of …

The original Scream (1996) crashed into the horror world when the genre needed it most. Wes Craven’s (A Nightmare On Elm Street, 1984) meta whodunit not only became an instant hit, but it also breathed new life into horror in a period when things were starting to feel stale and …

Grab a cup of hot cocoa or some milk and cookies and settle in. Everyone loves a good Christmas film. From classics like A Christmas Carol to all those other lighthearted lovely Hallmark films: it always gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling inside to snuggle up with a good …

In my time spent working on screeners from Vinegar Syndrome, I’ve found that they never cease to impress me. While companies like Criterion focus on the preservation of “the film canon,” VinSyn will preserve lesser known works, many of which remind me of my dad’s assorted VHS collection he had …

Harley Wallen’s Ash and Bone has already won some awards. Surely, it will also win itself some contrarian detractors (and you’ll find plenty in the comments of the trailer video), so let me get at some of those critiques right now, and maybe some of them halfway through. To begin …

Do you want a great, mind-bending, psychological thriller that will make your skin crawl and have you contemplating the real meaning of death? The Man In Room 6 is a rollercoaster of a film will enlighten and thrill you from each scene, but be wary; do NOT turn your eyes …