[Book Review] House of Psychotic Women
House of Psychotic Women is a fascinating beast. Part autobiography, part reference book, it is a love letter to the topic of female neurosis from author Kier-La Janisse.
[Film Review] Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch (1968)
The child’s point of view can be a powerful tool in horror.
[Event Review] Popcorn Frights Film Festival: We Got a Dog (2022)
A surprise dog which your partner didn’t consult you on? It sounds frustrating, but it becomes scary in Ryan Valdez’s short film We Got a Dog (2022), screened at this year’s Popcorn Frights film festival.
[Film Review] Crimes of The Future (2022)
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. …
[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.
