The film we’re discussing today is actually not really a horror film per se, but more like a Coen-Brothers-style crime thriller interwoven with a sweet and understated romantic comedy/drama. The end result is not quite as strange as that sounds, and even though the juxtaposition of the two genres is an audacious one, particularly for … More Movies: Uncle John (2015)
Every once in a while, to get ideas for these reviews, I’ll idly browse through internet lists of underrated and underseen horror films, looking for an older movie I haven’t seen before. And it was during one of these browsing sessions that I stumbled across a 1977 flick that I had not only never seen, … More Movies: Scalpel (aka False Face) (1977)
Since I’ve already covered a pretty significant number of the great, good, and fairly decent horror films set on Halloween, I admit I was scrambling a bit to come up with something to review for this Halloween post that I hadn’t discussed before. So when I toddled over to Shudder and peeked in their Halloween … More Movies: Trick or Treats (1982)
A few months ago on this very site, I did a revisit on the Stephen King miniseries from 1999, Storm of the Century, after it randomly turned up on Hulu. At around the time I was watching that, I thought to myself how I’d really like to have another look at a later three-part miniseries … More Revisiting Stephen King’s Rose Red (2002)
Not too long ago, I did a massive mega-review of all five of the found-footage V/H/S films, which varied in quality but were mostly pretty solid (other than Viral, which I didn’t like much at all). Although I’m not the world’s biggest fan of found-footage horror in general, I was intrigued enough by the series … More Movies: V/H/S/85 (2023)
Whenever I hear about a movie that had a substantial amount of hype building up around it after its debut at a genre film festival, I tend to try to push the film up in my viewing rotation so I can see what all the fuss was about. So after I heard that the film … More Movies: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
For today’s review, we’re traveling to a remote forest in Ireland for The Hallow (formerly called The Woods), which had its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The directorial debut of Corin Hardy (who would later go on to helm The Nun, the 2018 entry into the sprawling Conjuring universe), The Hallow is a … More Movies: The Hallow (2015)
2016’s The Void is a very well-regarded and largely Lovecraftian Canadian film written and directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, and largely funded through a successful Indiegogo campaign. Like a great many indie horror flicks from the past decade or so, it has a heavy 1980s influence, both in its use of delightfully splattery … More Movies: The Void (2016)
The Boogeyman from 1980 was one of those movies that I always remember seeing the cover of in the video store, but that I never got around to renting, probably because I thought that it was just another forgettable slasher. And as far as that goes, I guess it sort of is, but it also … More Movies: The Boogeyman (1980)
Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stories tend to be kinda hit or miss; admittedly, his particular brand of cosmic horror is difficult to render effectively on screen, and for that reason, the best “Lovecraftian” films tend to be ones that don’t necessarily adapt an existing story, but simply work within the mythos the peculiar author created. … More Movies: The Dunwich Horror (1970)
The Scare Salon 