With the season coming to an end, I had to end it with a good, old fashioned summer movie, and I chose to watch 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, originally titled 48 Meters Down or 47 Meters Down: The Next Chapter. The first film (read our review here) was okay, but …
Read More »‘Seaside’ (2018) Review: A Slow But Competent Melodrama
Seaside is the latest dramatic thriller from Writer/Director Sam Zalutsky (You belong To Me 2007). The film tells the story of a young woman named Daphne (Ariana DeBose: Blue Bloods TV series) who finds her life in a rut, so she looks to starting anew with her boyfriend, Roger (Matt …
Read More »Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019) Is An Absolutely Chilling Conspiracy Film
In the new documentary, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Director Mads Brügger (The Ambassador 2011) seeks to explore the truth behind a mysterious, 50 year-old plane crash, along with help from Swedish private investigator Goran Bjorkdahl. Part journalistic mystery, part conspiracy theory, this film invites you to explore the daring possibility that …
Read More »Wade In The Water (2019): Moral Ambiguity and Subtlety Movie Review
Admittedly, I first leaped at the opportunity to review Wade in the Water for an obvious reason: It has my first name in the title! Fortunately, I enjoyed watching it beyond the novelty of that coincidence. In fact, it’s a fairly memorable film, and possibly worth owning. Why? Mark Wilson’s Wade …
Read More »Halloween Hijinks: Review Of New Comic Book Series, ‘Blood And Gourd’
I love a good old fashioned Halloween romp. Moreover, I feel like it’s an experience growing scarcer and scarcer. We’re losing the mischievous kind of horror that audiences enjoyed from gems like Gremlins and Tales from the Crypt. Thankfully, we have Dead Peasant’s new horror comic series, Blood & Gourd. The …
Read More »‘The Monster Squad’ (1987) – A Retrospective On The ’80s Cult Classic
With the recent 32nd anniversary of the iconic film The Monster Squad, I couldn’t help but press play on one of my go to, once a year, must watch films. A perfect mix of Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), and The Goonies (1985), The Monster Squad is just what …
Read More »Is ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (2019) Worth the Climb?
All of you classic horror fans are in luck, because in a wildly experimental and damn curious fervor, I watched both the Jacob’s Ladder movies back to back, the 1990 version starring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), and the upcoming Jacob’s Ladder reboot starring Michael Ealy (Underworld Awakening 2012), Jesse …
Read More »Why It Works: ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ (2019)
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (read our review here) is the newest nostalgic movie release of 2019. Directed by Andre Ovredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe 2016 – read our review here) from a script co-written by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth 2006), this monster thriller is based on …
Read More »‘Hoax’ (2019) Movie Review: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Everything!
I love creature features. I also love films that take place in the woods. You always know something bad is going to happen when you mix those two. Hoax seemed like the perfect end of summer movie, but did it live up to its hype? Keep reading to find out! …
Read More »If Fun Is A Sin, Then You’ll Have Much to Confess To The ‘VelociPastor’ – Movie Review
We’ve all got our guilty pleasures, those little things that we know might not be the best for us, or that don’t exactly fit our personalities, but they’re just too irresistible to deny. Horror is rife with those guilty pleasures. We hear the phrase, “So bad, it’s good,” all the …
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