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Pure Evil Wears Pigtails: ‘The Bad Seed’ at 60
If you’re going to create a character that personifies evil, what better deceptive vessel than an eight-year-old girl in a plaid cotton dress. Give her braids (described as “hangman’s noose...
‘Parasites’: As Gritty As It Gets Survival Thriller
Three USC students driving back to their dorms get horribly lost in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles. Things go from bad to worse when Marshal’s spiffy new truck gets a flat tire. When they...
‘Tank 432’: An Ambitious Exercise in Tension and Dread
Nick Gillespie has worked as a camera operator for Ben Wheatley since 2011’s Kill List. Now for Gillespie’s directorial debut, Wheatley put his weight behind the film, Tank 432 (formerly know...
‘Fury of the Demon’: Film History Meets Occult Conspiracy Theory
At the dawn of the 20th century, film pioneer Georges Melies created a staggering body of work (over 500 films), all while pushing the limits of the infant format. He pioneered special effects tr...
Directors Corey Asraf and John Swab Talk ‘Let Me Make You a Martyr’
Near the end of my phone interview with filmmakers Corey Asraf and John Swab, I asked them about the fate of one of the characters in their debut feature Let Me Make You a Martyr (read our review...
‘Red Christmas’: The Aborted Fetus Slasher You Always Wanted
Cletus is an aborted fetus who cheated death just like Jesus. Man, I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting to write that zinger. Straight out of Australia, writer/director Craig Anderson�...
‘Let Me Make You a Martyr’: A Dense, Frightening Revenge Tale
I saw Corey Asraf and John Swab’s debut film Let Me Make You a Martyr a few days ago and like a thick piece of southern-fried gristle, I’m gonna be digesting it for a while. It may take a cou...
Director Bobby Miller Talks ‘The Master Cleanse’, Practical Effects & More
One week deep into the 2016 Fantasia International Film Festival and one of my favorites so far is about a guy who goes on a spiritual retreat and vomits up a creature. Well, it’s also about th...
‘The Demolisher’ Director Returns With ‘Ventablvck’ (Exclusive)
One of my favorite movies from last year’s Fantasia International Film Festival was Gabriel Carrer’s The Demolisher (read our review). I’m a huge fan of vigilante flicks and Carrer’s hau...
A Look at the Horror Invading the 2016 Fantasia Festival
The 20th Fantasia International Film Festival is currently heading into its second week and there’s still another week and half to go, until it closes the curtains on August 3. Fantasia’s the...
‘Parasyte: Part 1 and 2’: A Wild, Uneven Duology
Parasyte was an award-winning manga series that ran from the late ‘80s to the mid-‘90s. Like most things released during that time period, Parasyte was revived in the 2000s. In this case it w...
‘The Unseen’: A Compelling, Unconventional Invisible Man Tale
His fingers wrapped in hockey tape, Bob Langmore works his shift at the lumber mill in a remote town in northern Canada. After a taxing shift, he returns to his disheveled trailer and unwinds wit...
‘The Master Cleanse’: An Emotionally Honest Body Horror Comedy
We all carry baggage around deep down in our gut. Whether it be an ex-lover or a lost job or opportunity, this baggage can clog up our insides – making it impossible to move on with our lives. ...
‘Bed of the Dead’ Brings the Surreal Midnight Movie Carnage
“This movie makes no sense,” said director/co-writer Jeff Maher about his new film Bed of the Dead. But as star Alysa King elaborated during the cast/crew Q&A, if you can accept a bed that ju...
‘Psycho Raman’: A Ferocious Serial Killer Thriller
The dynamic between cops and the criminals they hunt has been explored to death in cinema. They’re always brooding over how one half completes the other and how cops have to become monsters the...
Guillermo Del Toro Gets Candid; Talks Pinocchio, Monsters, & More
Guillermo Del Toro received the prestigious Cheval Noir Award at Fantasia Film Festival this year and in celebration the fest held a press conference with the filmmaker (unfortunately he’s unde...
DAY 1: A Well-Needed Kick to the Face
Last night kicked off the 20th anniversary of the almighty Fantasia Festival in Montreal. I’ve been lucky enough to go for the past three years and every year it gets wicked tough to decide whi...
‘Creature Designers’ Puts the Almighty Artists Front and Center
If you could build a Mount Rushmore of movie monsters, what mugs would you carve into those giant stones? Would you go the classic route, heavy on the Universal icons? Or mix it up with some eigh...
Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ Is Another Forgettable Adaptation
10 years ago, Stephen King wrote Cell – a novel about mass consumption and portable “horde” culture in the digital age. It’s not one of his better works, but is considered pretty decent b...
‘Lights Out’ For Fantasia, Also Premiering ‘Rupture,’ ‘Red Christmas’ and ‘The Unseen’!
This year marks the 20th year of the almighty Fantasia International Film Festival, the grandaddy of North American genre festivals. The first wave of films and special guests has just been annou...
‘What We Become’ Is a Compelling, Character-Driven Undead Tale
The most deadly part of a zombie apocalypse might not be the undead after all. It might be the part where you’re boarded up in a house with your family. That’s what the new Danish film What W...
‘Most Likely to Die’ Sticks to the Slasher Playbook
Last year, Anthony DiBlasi’s Last Shift was a sleeper indie horror hit. After it popped up on Netflix, it garnered a ton of favorable reviews and even made it on to some Top 10 of 2015 lists (o...
Fantasia Festival Announces First Wave of Frontières Market Projects
The almighty Fantasia Film Festival kicks off this July and for their 20th anniversary, this titanic fest is gearing up for its most massive edition yet. I’ve been lucky enough to attend Fantas...
“The Walking Dead” Mirror Universe Theory – What Do You Think?
Sick of The Walking Dead “who died” theories yet? Of course you’re not. This latest one comes from the wife of Treehouse director Michael G. Bartlett (read our Treehouse review). Mr. ...
A Pastoral Hell: Robert Mulligan’s ‘The Other’ (1972)
“Do you know about the well? That dark and secret place where the accident happened – one of the accidents, I should say.” It’s the summer of 1935 on the Connecticut farm of the Perry cla...
Cupid Is a Coke-Snorting S.O.B. in Short Film ‘Q’
The Roman god Cupid had a tough gig. That pudgy, beneficent winged infant zipped around all day, playing matchmaker with his love arrows. What was in it for him? When did he get laid? And when he...
‘Restoration’ Finds Real Emotion in Supernatural Horror
The feature length directorial debut of Zack Ward (Freddy vs. Jason), Restoration is a supernatural thriller centered on the mysterious circumstances of a little girl’s death. It’s co-written...
‘They’re Watching’: A Botched Opportunity with a Gonzo Ending
They’re Watching has an interesting enough pedigree to draw in curious viewers. It’s the brainchild of Micah Wright and Jay Lender, two creative who’ve worked on a diverse range of video ga...
Ambitious ‘A Haunting in Cawdor’ Underwhelms in the End
Just a cursory Google search of “A Haunting IMDB” reveals lots of horror flicks that use those two words followed by a geographic location: A Haunting in Connecticut, Salem, Georgia, Gabriel ...
Festival Hit ‘They Look Like People’ Available NOW!
Fresh off its theatrical run in LA, Perry Blackshear’s festival hit They Look Like People is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and a slew of other digital services! I saw the film twice during ...
8 Classic Film Noirs Every Horror Fan Should See
As a whole, film noir is impossible to define. It’s not your average genre and to many, it’s not a genre at all. It’s a cinematic movement that happened at a specific time for specific reas...
A Look At the Afflictions of ‘The Witch’
“Speak of the Devil and he is bound to appear.” – Proverb While the 17th century Enlightenment brought about a wave of reason in European politics and religion, those Puritan riffraff over ...
We Visit the ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ Sets in England!
After a nine hour flight, an hour train ride, and a shameful amount of time trying to navigate the Underground, I arrived at London’s Langham Hotel looking, for lack of a better word, like a zo...
‘The Revenant’ Is a Long, Rabid Road of Revenge
Hold a single-shot pistol to Jack London’s head and force him to snort a pile of coke while writing an epic survival story and you’ll only begin to get the gist of the cold road of revenge Al...
Play ‘Harum Skarum’…I Dare You.
Remember when those kids played Jumanji that one time and all those CGI monkeys went berserk? Remember when those kids played Zathura and no one saw that movie? Well I dare those kids to pla...
‘Sisters of the Plague’ Transcends Possession
Departing from the typical, tired possession movie formula, Sisters of the Plague is at its core is a strong drama about a dissolving family with a festering horror heart. There are moments of un...
‘They Look Like People’: Powerful Psychological, Human Horror
We’ve all gotten weird phone calls from unknown numbers at some point. Lines get crossed. Kids prank. People with sausage fingers press four keys at once, whatever. I once got one from a woman ...
2015 Mile High Horror Film Festival Recap
While Austin may be the high-falootin’ epicenter of the genre film festival universe here in the States, Colorado is nipping at its heels something fierce with two wholly unique fests of its ow...
‘Phantom of the Opera’ 90th Anniversary Screening With Live Score!
Amidst its lineup of kick ass new horror films from around the world, the Mile High Horror Film Festival in Littleton, CO also hosts some awesome “special screenings” that honor past and mode...
‘Night Fare’ Crumbles Under Own Seriousness
“There are no deadlines that never come due, no debts ever paid.” This is the mantra exhibited on a small sign in the back of the taxi driver’s car in Night Fare. This silent, tattooed hulk...
World Premiere: ‘Even Lambs Have Teeth’
The sixth annual Mile High Horror Film Festival kicked off in a vicious way last night with the world premiere of Terry Miles’ Even Lambs Have Teeth. Sitting down in the Alamo Drafthouse Little...
‘Excision’ & ‘Suburban Gothic’ Director Sets a ‘Trash Fire’
Writer/director Richard Bates Jr. makes some really unique films. He followed up the dark coming of age tale Excision with the morbidly madcap Suburban Gothic (our review). In both, Bates exh...
John Landis Talks the ‘An American Werewolf in London’ Maze
For the 25th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando, the creative team decided to bring back one of their most popular mazes ever: An American Werewolf in London. The...
Halloween Horror Nights 25 Preview: Bigger and Bloodier Than Ever Before
It all started when I got the severed arm in the mail. It came wrapped in a bloody rag inside a large wooden box with a black bow on top. “To: Patrick, From: Jack” read the tag. The arm reste...
Olivia Tennet and Milo Cawthorne Talk ‘Blood Punch’
I saw Madellaine Paxson and Eddie Guzelian’s Blood Punch at last year’s Mile High Horror Film Festival and have been itching to watch it again ever since. In my review, I called it a “super...
‘Return to Sender’: Rosamund Pike is the Only Bright Spot in This Cheesy Thriller
Fresh off her breakthrough role in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike returns in the rape-revenge tale Return to Sender. Well, not really “returns.” Fouad Mikati’s film was actually shot before Gone...
‘The Curse of Downers Grove’: Fairly Entertaining Thrills from Bret Easton Ellis
While a title like The Curse of Downers Grove suggests the supernatural, director Derick Martini’s new film is a tale of small town violence, teen angst, and revenge. It’s based on the book D...
‘Orion’: A Taxing Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hybrid
Civilization has crumbled. The last vestiges of the human race scavenge and fend for themselves by any means necessary. People dress in rags and culture has been reduced to a primitive, mythology...
Gabriel Carrer: Director of ‘The Demolisher’
One of my favorite films coming out of the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival was Gabriel Carrer’s surreal vigilante study The Demolisher (our review and behind the scenes look). As a...
‘Possessed’: An Inventively Sadistic Claymation Trip to Hell
Put the kiddies to bed, this Claymation movie isn’t for the little tykes. Put the grandparents to bed while you’re at it because it might make them spit out their dentures. In fact, put every...