[Film Review] Welcome to the Blumhouse – Double Feature Bingo Hell & Black as Night (2021)
Following the success of last year’s Welcome to the Blumhouse, the collective is back with four brand new horror/thriller films…
[Book Review] Sorrowland (2021)
Vern has escaped from Cainland. She’s pregnant. Through the woods, she flees from her husband, the Reverend Sherman, and from the cult-like settlement she grew up in…
[TV Review] Slasher: Flesh and Blood
Slasher: Flesh and Blood (2021) is the fourth season of the Slasher series. This season follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family…
[Film Review] Basket Case (1982)
At this showing, they had managed to scrounge up the original trailer for Basket Case, and I was instantly enthralled. I had to see this movie…
[Film Review] We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) is identity horror - taking place in the mind where one’s identity resides…
[Event Review] Portland Horror Film Festival
The Hollywood Theater, where the Portland Horror Film Festival is held, is one of the city’s most beloved institutions…
[Film Review] Stay Alive (2006)
The 2000s were a special time if you liked movies about dead, older women using inventive ways to return from the dead and kill people…
[Film Review] Yakuza Princess (2021)
Yakuza Princess (2021), directed by Vincente Amorim, is the story of a young woman named Akemi (played by MASUMI) trying to balance…
[Book Review] Thin Places (2020)
Thin places are parts of the world where the barrier between clay and the mist is more fragile, where it can be broken . . .
[Film Review] A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)
Kim Jee-Woon’s A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) is the highest grossing South Korean horror film and was also the first to be screened in American cinemas…
[Film Review] Nightdrive (2021)
Ever since Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, films have taught us over the years that getting into a car with a stranger is a bad idea…
[Film Review] Fantasia Film Festival 2021 - #Blue_Whale
In 2015, the Blue Whale Challenge became worldwide news when a string of young suicides were linked to the online game…
[Book Review] Beyond the Pale Motel (2014)
Francesca Lia Block's books are always a mix of light and dark, magic and brutality. Best known for her Weetzie Bat young adult series, her work often illuminates both the grimness and glitter of Los Angeles…
[Film Review] Bloodthirsty (2020)
The independent horror scene is rife with new concepts and explorations of old lore, from vampires to werewolves…
[Film Review] Lake Mungo (2008)
The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby picked out Lake Mungo as one of the scariest movies ever…
[Book Review] My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)
Stephen Graham Jones made a big splash last year when his award-winning novel The Only Good Indians hit shelves…
[Film Review] Night of the Living Dicks at the Fantasia International Film Festival is a Fun Horror-Comedy About Misogyny
There's a lot of dicks in the Night of the Living Dicks (2021). They come in all shades and sizes: the harassers, the hateful, the patriarchal, the underhanded, the blowhards…
[Film Review] Hall (2020)
Hall (2020) follows a group of strangers in a hotel, all with their own lives and problems, taken unawares by an unnamed virus…
[Film Review] Demonic (2021)
Neill Blomkamp crashed onto the scene with his 2009 sci-fi horror film District 9, a found footage style dystopic nightmare that examined the effects of xenophobia and societal disintegration through insectoid invasion…
[Book Review] Tomie (1987)
Manga artist Junji Ito, one of the pioneers of modern horror in manga, kick started his career with Tomie…
