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How I Found Out About Artistic Phenom Ruth Anna Evans Indie horror is my jam. It’s what I read about 90% of the time. I first came across Ruth Anna Evans as a cover artist for a lot of the books I read. I was not aware until recently that …

Dark Entities, the debut feature film from writer/director Brandon McLemore (who also plays the male lead, Wes), is a film that wears its influences on its sleeve.   Synopsis: Following a tragic accident in 1977, the three Winters siblings move into the mysterious home they inherited. They soon discover the …

While I’m not a fan of modern day paranormal cinema, I am a fan of storytelling that uses ghosts in creative ways to tell a unique idea. One of my favorites is Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, a Gothic horror/drama that uses ghosts to help a young woman solve mysteries. …

I have a tough time with ghost stories and haunted house movies. I’m pretty skeptical of ghosts, and I find the idea of them to be pretty damn scary. I’ve stayed in allegedly haunted hotels, ventured onto supposedly haunted streets, and out into forests that are quite questionable. There’s this …

George C. Scott’s hidden ghost story, The Changeling, is a timeless classic that has inspired many filmmakers since its release on March 28, 1980, including the present horror master Guillermo del Toro. Martin Scorsese called The Changeling “one of my favorite horror films of all time.” Director Peter Medak, who …

Lost Gully Road is a new thriller from Australia from Director Donna McRae (Johnny Ghost 2011). The film stars Adele Perovic (The Code 2014), John Brumpton (The Loved Ones 2009), and Jane Clifton (Prisoner: Cell Black H TV series). Synopsis: Lucy travels to an isolated house in the forest to wait …

The Amityville Murders is easily one of my favorite movies of 2019, so far (read my review of the film here). When it comes to sequels, or a movie that is part of an ever-growing series, it’s sometimes hard to get a believable plot, solid acting, or even just an …

Some people are just born to direct and this is definitely true for Derek Nguyen. He has great vision and knows how to deliver a phenomenal horror story that focuses on great characters, atmosphere, and fear. This is how I felt after watching his new film The Housemaid, which will be in …

Do you enjoy the strange and usual? The wacky and weird? The unnerving and disturbing? Than I have the film for you: 1977’s Japanese horror comedy House (also know as Hausu), which plays out like Monster House on acid, a film that is strange, weird, beautiful and more disturbing than …

Canadian filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City 2007, Small Town Murder Songs 2010) didn’t have much luck entering the horror field when he made The Last Exorcism II in 2013, a film mostly forgotten by genre fans. Four years later, Gass-Donnelly is back with psychological ghost story Lavender. Did he …