Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 25/06/2021

[Film Review] Vicious Fun (2021)

Five serial killers walk into a bar…and if you want the end of that joke, you’ll have to watch Cody Calahan’s Vicious Fun…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 24/06/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 24/06/2021

[Film Review] Teeth (2007)

There’s no denying that Teeth (2007) is a movie whose reputation precedes it. Whether you have seen it or not, most horror fans have heard about the film that involves vagina dentata…

Leticia Lopez / Contributor 24/06/2021 Leticia Lopez / Contributor 24/06/2021

[Book Review] Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi

Be careful with what you create. Take on a character or role and society is grasped by that staple no matter how many times you try to yank it out…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021

[Event Review] Bye Bye Bad Taste Festival

From the filmmaker who brought us this year’s rip-roaring I Need You Dead! comes the Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest…

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021 Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana / Senior Contributor 22/06/2021

[Film Review] Nightmare Symphony (2020)

Nightmare Symphony (2020) is a love letter to Italian film director Lucio Fulci and the giallo murder mystery films from the 1960s and 70s…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 21/06/2021

[Film Review] The Retreat (2021) Enacts Gruesome Queer Catharsis

Every time there’s a horror movie about city slickers who take an ill-fated trip to the countryside, there has to be fucked-up deer imagery…

Alix Turner / Contributor 21/06/2021 Alix Turner / Contributor 21/06/2021

[Film Review] My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2021)

Thomas is sick, and it’s not the kind of sickness they can leave in the care of a hospital; instead, it is the kind which requires human blood to keep him going…

Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 17/06/2021 Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 17/06/2021

[Film Review] Black Swan (2010)

Black Swan (2010) deals with the familiar trope of the devious understudy but brings into focus the pressures faced by women in the ballet world...

Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 10/06/2021 Hannah Ogilvie / Contributor 10/06/2021

[Film Review] The Rental (2020)

Dave Franco’s directorial debut The Rental (2020) looks to exploit the social trend of people booking holidays in stranger’s homes..

Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 09/06/2021 Harriet Fletcher / Contributor 09/06/2021

[Film Review] Lili (2019)

After the exposure of film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017, the ‘casting couch’ has gone from being a myth of Hollywood’s bygone era…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 07/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 07/06/2021

[Film Review] Leni (2020)

The deeper we bury our grief, loneliness, and anxiety, the more powerful our monsters become…

Sam Vargas / Contributor 06/06/2021 Sam Vargas / Contributor 06/06/2021

[Film Review] Flashback (2021)

At one point or another, everyone wonders if they’ve made the right choices with their time…

Jane Nightshade / Contributor 06/06/2021 Jane Nightshade / Contributor 06/06/2021

[Film Review] The Woman in the Window (2021)

Anna is a depressed and anxious middle-aged woman from Manhattan, who watches the world from the big front window of her rambling brownstone in fast-gentrifying South Harlem…

Aspen Esquivel / Contributor 04/06/2021 Aspen Esquivel / Contributor 04/06/2021

[Film Review] Spiral: From The Book of Saw (2021)

After a little over a year, cinemas and theaters in certain countries are opening up and productions are finally releasing long awaited films…

Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 03/06/2021 Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor 03/06/2021

[Film Review] Hungry Hearts (2014)

They say mother knows best, but what if she doesn’t? They also say it takes a village to raise a child…

Alex Challoner / Contributor 03/06/2021 Alex Challoner / Contributor 03/06/2021

[Book Review] The Cipher (1991)

There is a hole. A hole in the floor of a storage closet in Nicholas’s apartment building. Along with his friend and on/off lover, Nakota, the hole is explored as best they can…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 02/06/2021

[Film Review] Orozco the Embalmer (2001)

Documentaries these days tend to be glossy and sensationalized. Stream any docuseries from HBO or Netflix and the picture will be clear…

Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021 Emma Kostopolus / Contributor 02/06/2021

[Event Review] Panic Fest 2021: A Great Time for Some Sick Laughs

Panic Fest, held yearly as the Screenland Armour, is a mainstay in the Kansas City film scene, and thus an event that is near and dear to my heart…

Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 01/06/2021 Caitlyn Downs / Contributor 01/06/2021

[Film Review] Great White (2021)

From its opening, in which a cavorting couple is rather unceremoniously offed, Great White sets itself out as a typical shark vs. people movie…

Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 01/06/2021 Jerry Sampson / Senior Contributor 01/06/2021

[Film Review] The Bad Man (2018)

In the realm of extreme horror films, there is an area I like to call extreme-light…

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