Tag Archives: indie horror

The Limbo Cafe is written, directed and produced by Jason Burke (Mind Bender, author of Field of Madness). It’s a horror short that was a labor of love. That much is obvious. The Limbo Cafe centers around protagonist Atria Romero. She enters The Limbo Cafe looking haggard, tired and in …

When I first watched The Hart-Break Killer Death-scort Services‘ Sean Donohue’s (read our interview with him here) film reminded me quite a bit of Richie Moore’s Who’s Watching Oliver? (2018 – read our review here). The similarities between the two main characters are astonishing. The ones I quickly noticed from the …

We have all experienced things that go bump in the night, when the hair raises on the back of your neck or you see spooky shadows that are gone almost instantly. The supernatural is one field of fascination that everyone has at least some experience in. The past decade has …

Growing up, there was one thing that truly terrified me, and that was Bloody Mary. When I was in first grade, a friend told me the story of Bloody Mary and about the game used to summon her, and to this day, I am still terrified of mirrors. So when …

How far would you go to save your child? Most parents would be willing to go to the ends of the earth, although arguably not as far as Leo, the protagonist of Luke Ramer’s indie horror film, The Taxidermist. Synopsis: Leo is a struggling artist, who falls upon hard times. …

I’ve been following Troy Escamilla’s work (read our interview with him here) since I first started writing for PopHorror, just after he had recently finished his first feature, Party Night.(you can read our review here). It wasn’t long after that I backed his second feature, Stirring (read our review here), on Kickstarter. …

How far would you go to be successful? How much are you willing to sacrifice? These are they themes that A Brilliant Monster deals with. While this subject has been covered in other films over the years, this film covers this subject well on a microbudget, which is not an …

Although known for ’90s and early 2000 action classics such as Con Air, Face/Off and Gone in Sixty Seconds, Nicolas Cage has also explored other genres with films such as Leaving Las Vegas and The Family Man. Starring in thrillers like 8MM and Bringing Out the Dead, this action legend …

Here at PopHorror, we are huge fans of Yuletide terror. From ’80s classics like Silent Night Deadly Night, guilty pleasures like Santa’s Slay and Jack Frost, and modern indie films like Stirring and All Through The House, it’s something that even the biggest Scrooges in our writing staff can’t help …

Recently, I had the chance to check out the screener of the demonic thriller horror film, Soul To Keep. The film stars Kate Rose Reynolds (She Wolf Rising 2016), Aurora Heimbach (Most Beautiful Island 2017), Sandra Mae Frank (The Sound of Fear 2017), Derek Long (Not Alone 2017), Jordan Theodore (The …