[Film Review] Blood Feast (1963)
Blood Feast from The Shudder Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection
[Film Review] Rawhead Rex (1986)
Rawhead Rex is a 1986 fantasy horror written by Clive Barker.
[Film Review] Making Off (2012)
The beauty of extreme films can often be found in their ability to blur the realms of fiction and reality, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in a world so corrupt, so heinous it can provoke a physical reaction.
[Film Review] The Retaliators (2021)
The Retaliators feels like two movies wrapped into one…
[Film Review] Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Now, for the Gen-Z set, Bodies Bodies Bodies twerks its way onto the scene with some of the funniest, smartly written, TikTok-fueled young adults to get hacked and slashed.
[Film Review] Orphan: First Kill (2022)
It’s been 13 years since Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) first terrorized audiences in 2009’s Orphan and now Esther the murderous maniac with a glandular disorder is back in Orphan: First Kill, a prequel directed by William Brent Bell (Stay Alive, The Boy).
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
Popcorn Frights film festival showcased Aristotelis Maragkos’s creative retelling of a familiar story in The Timekeepers of Eternity (2022).
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Belle (2022)
Max Gold’s Belle (2202) was showcased at Popcorn Frights Film Festival and it’s a beautiful addition to a genre festival.
[Film Review] The Feast (Gwledd)
Before launching into this review, it feels important to note that The Feast is the first Welsh-language film to enter cinemas in five years.
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Presence (2022)
This year, Popcorn Frights Film Festival features Christian Schultz’s Presence (2022), a methodical and spooky character study about trust and friendship.
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Distress Signals (2022)
Distress Signals (2022), co-directed by Terence Krey and Christine Nyland, is making its world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival this year.
[Film Review] Glorious (2022)
It isn’t easy to pull off the single location horror film with any real sense of tension and dread.
[Film Review] Ultrasound (2021)
Ultrasound (2021) is an intriguing watch, keeping you on your toes, allowing you to fall for its understated approach to a high concept plot before throwing revelations thick and fast after revealing a couple of plot twists, leaving you reeling with the same thoughts as its three protagonists; how do you know what is real?
[Film Review] Incantation (2022)
Well wishes and blessings are not only culturally expected, but are expressed without a second thought, even by those who don’t believe in any form of divine energy.
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: Compulsus (2022)
Tara Thorne’s feature debut Compulsus (2022), part of Popcorn Frights film fest, is a tense and emotional, hard look at rape culture and violence against women and feminine people.
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: The Third Saturday in October & The Third Saturday in October Part V (2022)
Popcorn Frights film festival showcased Jay Burleson’s throwback slasher double-feature The Third Saturday in October Part V (2022), and The Third Saturday in October (2022). Meant to be watched in that order, they are love letters to the classic ‘80’s slashers.
[Film Review] Mad God (2021)
Mad God is a bleak, visually arresting journey into a world of madness, suffering and violence, filled with ‘Miltonesque’ monsters and villains
[Film Review] When I Consume You (2022)
There is nothing in the world like an independent horror film that moves to the beat of its own drum. Shirking cliché and formula, When I Consume You offers a wholly unique experience for the viewer, requiring a bit of patience, and delivering heartbreaking terror.
[Book Review] Nos4a2 (2013)
Using echoes of childhood nostalgia reminiscent of Peter Pan or Goonies, Joe Hill’s Nos4a2 (2013) twists childlike wonder into bloody debasement..
[Book Review] Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers (2022)
As the horror world gears up for the beautiful new Second Sight release of Dog Soldiers (2002) it seems like the perfect time to show Neil Marshall’s horror debut as much love as it deserves.
