Reviews

Top Ten Fun Facts And Goofs About Bill Froehlich’s ‘Return To Horror High’ (1987)

Bill Froehlich’s Return To Horror High turns 35 in 2022! To celebrate, we have compiled a list of fun facts to celebrate. Synopsis: In the early 1980s, a series of gruesome murders occurred at Crippen High School. The killer was never apprehended. A few years later, a film crew uses the …

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‘The Backrooms’ (2022): A scary Found Footage Short That’s Going Viral – Movie Review

When you hear a sixteen-year-old’s video has gone viral online, you think it’s a dance they created, a meme with a catchphrase, a staged act of kindness, or a fake fight to spark debate. This is a normal thing now with the use of cell phones. But this isn’t the …

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Sam Mason-Bell’s ‘Found Footage of Fear: Digital Terror’ (2022) – Movie Review

Found Footage of Fear: Digital Terror is a 2022 Trash Arts release, co-written by Chris Mills (Hacker: Trust No One 2021) and Sam Mason-Bell (Terror At Black Tree Forest 2021 – our review), and directed by Mason-Bell. It stars Chris Mills, Jackson Batchelor (Monstrous Disunion 2021), Spencer Craig (Right Here …

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Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Belle’ (2022): Film Review Plus Bonus Roundtable Interview Question

In a time when everybody in America at least knows someone with Disney+, it’s becoming quite rare to find an individual unfamiliar with the story of the Beauty And The Beast. Many critics look at the original animated version to be the be-all, end-all telling of the story. Regardless, famed …

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Lucky McKee’s ‘May’ (2002): A Creepy Character Study – Retro Review

May

Characters will always be the most fascinating things about movies. In spite of the fact that every aspect of filmmaking has to come together in a cacophony of timing and storytelling, we always find ourselves relating in some way to the more memorable characters. In May, the main character is a …

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James Watkins’ ‘The Woman In Black’ (2012) Celebrates 10 Years Of Chills – Retro Review

“They took her boy away so now she takes us…” If you were anything like me back in 2012, you had just experienced a year of Harry Potter withdrawal following 2011’s Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and were counting down the days until Daniel Radcliffe would once again grace the big screen …

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William Brent Bell’s ‘The Devil Inside’ (2012): This Controversial Ending Turns 10 – Retro Review

“I’ve seen the devil way more than I’ve seen God, which is not the way it’s supposed to be…” – Father Ben Rawlings There’s been quite a few movies centering on demonic possession over the years, from 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose to the one that started it all in 1973, The …

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Blu-Ray Review: Josh Ruben’s ‘Werewolves Within’ (2021) Delivers The Perfect Whodunit Mystery!

Cheyenne Jackson and Harvey Guillén in the mystery/thriller/comedy film, “WEREWOLVES WITHIN,” an IFC Films release. Produced by Ubisoft Film & Television, Vanishing Angle, and Sam Richardson. Photo Credit: Sabrina Lantos.

Werewolves Within delivers a fantastic whodunit horror-comedy. The film was directed by Josh Ruben (Scare Me) from a script by Mishna Wolff (I’m Down). It stars Sam Richardson (Veep, Detroiters), Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us TV series), George Basil (Crashing), Sarah Burns (Barry), Michael Chernus (Tommy/CBS), Catherine Curtin (Orange Is …

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Anthology Flashback #10: CBS Series ‘The Television Ghost’ (1931–1933)

Anthology horror efforts come and go, with some being more memorable than others. However, not every one of them has been preserved forever. Such is the case with the CBS series, The Television Ghost, broadcast way back in the early 1930s! Due to its early, experimental nature, neither the audio …

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