It’s been 20 years since Brian Falduto delivered one of the most iconic lines of the Jack Black-led School of Rock: “You’re tacky and I hate you.” At the time, due to his character Billy’s sass and affinity for fashion, the young actor was quickly labeled by the public as …
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Yellow Veil Pictures Acquires Erotic Thriller Documentary, ‘WE KILL FOR LOVE’
Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired director Anthony Penta’s (The Last Thing She Wanted) new documentary We Kill For Love ahead of its Premiere at the Overlook Film Festival. The film features stars such as Monique Parent (Poison Ivy: The New Seduction), Amy Lindsay (Forbidden Sins), and Athena Massey (Black Scorpion). …
Read More »XYZ Films Has Acquired The AI Sci-Fi Film, ‘The Artifice Girl’
XYZ Films has just acquired the rights to director Franklin Ritch’s (Bedridden) sci-fi film, The Artifice Girl. The film stars Tatum Matthews (The Gift), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), and Sinda Nichols (J Doe). The film world premiered at Fantasia Festival, with its US premiere last week at SXSW. Synopsis: The story …
Read More »Bruckner Strikes Again: ‘THE NIGHT HOUSE’ (2020) – Spoiler-Free Review
2020 was an insane year. From a devastating pandemic, worldwide police brutality marches, a bizarre election, missing toilet paper, and spicy chicken sandwiches (Popeye’s was better). While the pandemic had us on lockdown, movie theaters weren’t deemed essential. Production studios had to reconstruct their model to get movies to the …
Read More »Celebrating Cronenberg – A Letter To The Influential Filmmaker On His Birthday
Dear Mr. Cronenberg, March 15th marks your 80th trip around the sun. An auspicious occasion in itself, but you sir, are celebrating 80 glorious years on this earth, many of which were spent making indispensable films, writing novels, acting, and being a father. You helped create a new, subversive sub-genre, …
Read More »Psychosis Baby Blues: ‘ADALYNN’ (2023) – Movie Review
Only a few things come to mind as more difficult than becoming a new parent. Now add living with untreated mental illness and grieving trauma. Mixed in some baby blues and postpartum psychosis and you’ve got a recipe for real-life elevated horror cinema. Adalynn(2023) Synopsis After Adalynn’s husband goes away …
Read More »Scarring Social Horror: ‘SPEAK NO EVIL’ (2022) – Spoiler-Free Review
Before I became a father, I can remember some friends telling me “You don’t know what love is until you have kids”. What they should’ve said is, “You don’t know what fear is.” I can’t think of a more unacceptable horror than not being able to protect my children. We …
Read More »Donovan Smith’s ‘Grimoire’ (2022)- Short Film Review
I absolutely adore short stories and short films. So when opportunities arise to review, I take them. Donovan Smith is a writer here at PopHorror and during the pandemic, he wrote, directed, and starred in his short film titled Grimoire. When he told me about it and I watched the …
Read More »Book Review – “The Black Guy Dies First” – Wait…is that right?!
The Black Guy Dies First. Wait…that isn’t right…is it?!?! Answering this, and more, The Black Guy Dies First, is a deep dive into Black horror cinema. Robin R. Means, Ph.D., and Mark H. Harris leave no stone unturned in outlining the struggles, and accomplishments of Black creatives in horror. Starting …
Read More »‘CRAM’ (2023) Review – Study Like Your Life Depends On It
I think we can all relate to procrastination, and making time for the things we want to do. We put off important things we know that we should do and fall victim to the consequences. Perhaps there’s a deeper reason why we put them off. What if we were confronted …
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