Arrow Video is back with a brand new slate of new home video releases just in time for Summer. June brings us four new releases to be exact, including a new, modern horror film, an underrated western, and a collection of classic Italian crime films. You’re definitely going to want …
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Looking Back At The Significance Of ‘Scanners’ (1981) – Retro Review
In the late 1970s, fledgling Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg introduced the world to his unique brand of horror. After completing three features—the first, which focused on parasitic psychosexual mania in Shivers (1975), then on to the uncommon, aggressive outbreak of Rabid (1977), and eventually, to mutant offspring in The Brood …
Read More »‘Hail To The Deadites’ (2020) – Nightmares Film Festival 2020 Movie Review
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise has developed quite the fan following over the years. From the original Evil Dead in 1981 to Ash vs. Evil Dead on Starz, fans can’t get enough of Ashley J. Williams and his boomstick. That rabid fandom is the subject of Hail to the Deadites, …
Read More »Madeline Deering’s ‘Spirit Animal’ (2019) Movie Review – A Slice Of SOV Gold
Shot On Video (SOV) genre entries have honestly been hit or miss with me. I have often found SOV hard to follow, with the sound being so abysmal that I can’t decipher the dialogue, or too grainy of a picture, and so on. But there have also been some SOV …
Read More »Movie Review: ‘VFW’ (2020) is a Bloody, but Derivative Mess
It’s easy to watch a genre film these days and point out “that’s been done before.” The fact is, nearly everything has been done before in some capacity. All stories are derivative of something, but some more than others. VFW, the latest film from director Joe Begos, unfortunately, crosses the …
Read More »‘Radioflash’ (2019) Review: A Slow And Unfocused Apocalyptic Drama
Apocalyptic films have always been hit or miss with me. In order to appreciate the genre, one has to be able to see the beauty in desolation and rubble. As a self-proclaimed optimist, I often struggle with dystopian films that present bleak settings and themes. Radioflash is a film of …
Read More »PopHorror Visits Bingemans Screampark 2019 in Kitchener Ontario Canada
Just as Halloween looms on the horizon, Bingemans Screampark in Kitchener Ontario, Canada brings yet another season of screams and scares to an end. I was lucky enough to be sent on behalf of PopHorror to test my mettle against the onslaught of chills and thrills that Bingemans Screampark had …
Read More »BHFF 2019: David Marmor’s ‘1BR’ And The Horrors Of Belonging
One of the most propulsive horror trends of modern years has been the resurgence of the Creepy Cult. Perhaps I paint with too broad a brush, but a cult, to me, is any group of people united in a single ideology that subverts commonly held morals. Jordan Peele’s Get Out …
Read More »‘In Search of Darkness’ (2019) Is An Ecstatic Love Letter To ’80s Horror Films
At over four hours, David Weiner’s In Search of Darkness (2019), takes on the monumental task of exploring horror films of the ’80s without feeling overly long and bloated with information — and it manages it in spades. This film was made, in part, thanks to an Indiegogo campaign with …
Read More »Interview with ‘VelociPastor’ Director Brendan Steere
Without a doubt, The VelociPastor (2018 – our review here) has been one of the biggest surprise breakout success stories of this year, and deservedly so. The wildly hilarious tale about a prehistorically supercharged priest kicking ass and fighting crime is easily one of the most ludicrously fun film experiences horror has …
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