Playing at the 2019 Blood in the Snow Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, is an amazing new film directed by Darken’s (2017) Audrey Cummings (read our interview with her here) called She Never Died. The film stars Olunike Adeliyi (The Prodigy 2019 – read our review here), Peter MacNeill (A …
Read More »Interview with Filmmaker Adam Egypt Mortimer of ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’
This past September I attended Beyond Fest for the screening of Richard Stanley’s long-awaited Color Out of Space. It played a double feature with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real, a horror story about a traumatized young man who awakens his childhood imaginary friend to help him cope. Both films …
Read More »‘Gwendy’s Magic Feather’ (2019) Book Review
We return to Castle Rock once again in Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar. The novel is the second installment in the series following Gwendy’s Button Box, which was co-written by Chizmar and Stephen King. Gwendy Peterson is now thirty-seven and a congresswoman. She is completely different from the anxious teen who …
Read More »Interview With ‘She Never Died’ Director Audrey Cummings!
So many amazing films have premiered this year, including Audrey Cummings’ She Never Died (read our review – here). It is currently having a very successful festival run. We had the chance to watch it for Screamfest and this Friday it premieres at BITS 2019. I was stoked to be …
Read More »Daybreak: Our Thoughts On Netflix’s New Post-Apocalyptic Comedy Series
Do you have a plan for the apocalypse? Neither did Josh Wheeler, but that didn’t stop him from having the time of his life! Based off of a 2011 graphic novel by Bryan Ralph, Daybreak tells the story of Josh (Colin Ford: Under the Dome TV series) as he navigates …
Read More »‘The Tokoloshe’ (2018) Is A Tale Of Innocence Lost – Movie Review
A tokoloshe is a creature from Zulu mythology who terrorizes people (mostly children) in their sleep, leaving long scratches on their bodies before choking them to death. Director Jerome Pikwane’s debut film, The Tokoloshe, blends this myth with the story of a broken girl struggling to survive in modern Johannesburg. …
Read More »Sadie: A Shocking New Short by Myles Erfurth – Movie Review
What happens when we die? What’s waiting for us on the other side? The new short film, Sadie,seeks to answer that. Written and directed by Myles Erfurth (Crocodylus 2017) and produced by newcomer Jamie “T” Trisheim, the film is about a woman named Sadie (Constance Payne: Crocodylus 2017) who chooses …
Read More »PopHorror Interviews the Stars of New Western Horror ‘Black Wood’
Last week, we posted our interview with the director and one of the producers for the upcoming Western Thriller, Black Wood. The film is directed and written by Chris Canfield and produced by Eric Corneliuson and Ryan M Hall. It stars Bates Wilder, Tanajsia Slaughter, Stelio Savante, David Fralick and …
Read More »Movie Review (2019) There Is A New ‘Animal Among Us’
Animal Among Us Directed by John Woodruff Written by Jonathan Murphy Starring Larisa Oleynik, Christian Oliver, Erin Daniels, Christine Donlon, and Jonathan Murphy. I love watching a film that makes me want to immediately jump on a 2-hour podcast to discuss the intricacies with fellow reviewers. However, those films are …
Read More »‘Midday Demons’ (2019) Is A Stunning Tale of Buried Secrets
Originally released as House of Shadows in 2014, Rossella De Venuto’s (Wanted in Rome 2008) Midday Demons has finally been released in the U.S. The film stars Fiona Glascott (Resident Evil 2002), Federico Castelluccio (The Sopranos TV series), Pietro Ragusa (The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999), and Salvatore Lazzaro (House of …
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