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…
A life sentence would seem to afford you a good deal of thinking time. But for Akutsu, a former yakuza facing his last days on…
Third verse, same as the first. Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 rage-zombie opus Train to Busan was a breakout it, largely because of its relentless pace and…
Beyond a brief cameo from Lin Shaye as Elise, the soft reset for the Insidious franchise removes the Lambert family from the proceedings, taps yet…
In their book The British B Film, writers Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe Bond of Fear, an underseen and worthwhile low-budget crime curio from…
The advent of digital cinematography has been both a blessing and a curse in the history of cinema. For one, it’s made film productions far…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
45 years after an environmental catastrophe has emptied the sea around Rio de Janeiro, the city’s main entertainment is a televised series of lethal parkour…