Brian O’Malley’s The Lodgers bleeds luscious Gothic beauty from its first frame to its last. O’Malley, intact with an old-school style of genre film-making, has, above all, crafted a ghostly tale that, in regard to its aesthetic, feels like a classic horror film in a modern era. It’s gorgeous, ghostly, …
Read More »Ryûhei Kitamura’s ‘Downrange’ (2018) – A Spoiler-y Review
Picture this: you’re driving in the middle of nowhere and your tire suddenly blows out. To make matters worse, there’s a sniper hiding in the trees, trying to kill you. What do you do? It’s a very frightening thing to imagine, and it’s the topic of discussion for the film, …
Read More »Victor Crowley (2017) – Movie Review
Like everyone else, I thought the Hatchet series was finished with Hatchet 3. This trilogy has one of the greatest slashers of our time and I was sad to see it end. But then I found out that Victor Crowley is back! You have no idea how happy I am that …
Read More »BITS 2017: ‘The Wolf’- Short Film Review
Since I started writing for PopHorror, I’ve seen some fantastic, wonderfully made indie films. Their quality and inventiveness always blow me away. Did The Wolf (also known as Le Loup) earn its place on my favorite horror short films list? Find out below! (Synopsis provided by IMDb.com): The Wolf centers around …
Read More »‘The Daughters of Virtue’ (2017) Horror Short
We all sin, but some sins are deemed worse than others. Sometimes we feel like we have no control and perhaps sometimes we don’t. What if we were possessed? In the new horror short The Daughters of Virtue one woman’s sins are far more complicated than anyone knows. The Daughters of …
Read More »Interior (2014) – Movie Review
What makes a good horror film nowadays? To me, a horror film doesn’t need to go all out with special effects or countless jump scares to affect its audience. Interior is a little indie film, written and directed by Zachary Beckler. Did Beckler‘s film affect me? Read below and find …
Read More »The Gracefield Incident (2017) – Movie Review
I’ve never been a huge fan of sci-fi films, unless they’re more horror than science fiction (like Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, which is my personal favorite sci-fi/horror flick). I’m never in a rush to see the next Alien movie, and it’s rare for me to fall in love with …
Read More »The Clown Network (2016) Online Dating Meets Clowns
Just when you thought internet dating wasn’t scary enough, just think of what adding clowns to the mix would do! This is exactly what happens in the horror short, The Clown Network. Aren’t afraid of clowns? Well, you will be now. Distributed by Windar Media Productions, The Clown Network is an …
Read More »Meat, Coins and a Table: A Short Horror Film Called ‘Agatha’
In Timothy Vandenberg’s Agatha, a little orphan girl named Sophie (played by Louise Ogle) is hired by a woman (Penny Kohut) to bring food onto a table for someone living upstairs. Nice gig for a kid, right? Well, you would most certainly be wrong. Sophie is sternly instructed that she …
Read More »Honeymoon (2015) – Movie Review
I’m not proud of it, but I’ve always been guilty of judging a movie by its cover. If the cover art isn’t intriguing to me, I usually don’t bother reading the synopsis. The only reason I gave Honeymoon a try was because I really loved the cover and the synopsis …
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