Larry Fessenden has been delicately orchestrating his ersatz Universal Monsters vision for almost 20 years now. His self-starring Gen-X Dracula fable Habit premiered in 1996,…
Talk about your unexpected picks for franchise promotion: 2020’s Becky was a modestly-budgeted picture, offering the simple pleasures of a furious adolescent girl dispatching a…
Contrary to the quick-take meta-narrative, the quality of Yeon Sang-ho’s filmography cannot and should not be limited to his four zombie films (Seoul Station, Train…
Christmas-themed horror movies are a dime a dozen. Blending gleeful fits of carnage with what is — for most — arguably the cheeriest holiday of…
For some, Halloween is just a holiday, a brief period of time when the neighborhood is suddenly adorned with frightening accouterments and houses become inundated…
Director James Nunn and frequent leading man Scott Adkins are back together again with One Last Shot, the (presumably) final entry in their elaborately staged,…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy can best be described as confident: a bold step in the direction of an ample, maximalist horror. But it is seldom…
A new horror short from Demon Knight and Bones director Ernest R. Dickerson is the best reason to see V/H/S: Mixtape, but even his segment…
There’s something weirdly admirable about just how shamelessly Matchbox: The Movie (yes, that is the actual title) behaves as a piece of corporate synergy/IP. It’s almost…
Indonesian horror films are having a moment. Not only are home video labels like Severin producing box sets of the films of genre icon Suzzanna,…
Renny Harlin has no competition. That he has managed to corner the market on a genre-diverse yet highly specific form of popular filmmaking is somewhat…
Setting one’s low-budget genre film in a single setting is a time-honored tradition, a money-saving maneuver that makes for a simple calling-card exercise but which…
As the growth and ubiquity of AI continues to accelerate at a terrifyingly rapid rate, so do the horror films that seek to capitalize on…
The concept of a Japanese ghost story conjures up many spectacular images of hauntings from throughout cinema history. There are the vengeful spirits of classic…
Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done begins with a cryptic series of images; pitch-black night, a pile of discarded clothing, closeups of various faces, impassive…
Guy Moshe is an Israeli-American filmmaker. This, under normal circumstances, is not information pertinent to a review, but regarding his latest, The Fix, it’s tough…
“How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?!” That’s a line spoken by Bruce Willis as NYPD officer-turned-Nakatomi Plaza hero John McClane,…
It’s overselling Mayday a bit to suggest that it could have been made and released in 1987, when it takes place. That said, it’s rather…
“Consequently, Twenty-Four Eyes, which was made by Kinoshita Keisuke in 1954, is clearly a Japanese film,” says Nagisa Oshima, “but the Twenty-Four Eyes made in…
The sitcom was never meant to be real; its unreality was its greatest attraction, peering back through the façades of modern suburbanity at an audience…
Macon Blair’s new film arrives with the title Idiots, but it began life, and even premiered, under the name The Shitheads. That any semblance of…