All Movie Reviews
Monsters Are Closer Than They Appear in Come, Said the Night
Musician Kinky Friedman once said “A happy childhood…is the worst possible preparation for life.” One of the first things one can’t help but noticing in Andres Rovira’s ...
Dolls is a Thrilling Modern Fairy Tale for Adults [Retrospective]
Dolls takes place on a dark and especially stormy night. The film finds an eclectic group of people taking refuge from the storm at the home of a seemingly sweet but ultimately creepy older ...
MA is an Unfortunate Exercise in Mediocrity [Blu-ray Review]
I went into MA wanting to like it. In spite of lukewarm reviews, I was hoping it would be something special. It features a talented cast of characters and comes from a director with an impre...
IT Chapter Two is a Frightening, Funny, and Surprisingly Moving Return to Derry [Review]
Back in 2017, IT shocked horror audiences by being, well, pretty bloody great. The kids were cute rather than annoying, Bill Skarsgård put a terrifying new spin on a character already made ...
Darlin’ Goes For the Throat [Blu-Ray Review]
Writer-director-star Pollyanna McIntosh’s blunt – and yet multi-edged – object of a film is a guttural, and delightfully weird follow-up to Lucky McKee’s The Woman. Darlin&...
Clownado is an Unnatural Disaster [Review]
It isn’t the only clown horror hitting this week, but Part II is almost assuredly going to be the better one. Clownado comes to video on demand 9/3 and DVD 9/17. It tells the story of Ron (John...
Satanic Panic [Frightfest 2019 Review]
Satanic Panic is a movie made up of so many disparate elements that it shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does. And yet, I completely, 100 percent loved it from beginning to end. Introduced at ...
The Most Assassinated Woman In The World [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Horror has long been obsessed with Grand Guignol, but the fascination with the infamous French theatrical experience has yet to be the setting for a straight genre movie. Step up, The Most Assassinate...
Midnight Movie is Tragically Flawed [Retrospective]
Midnight Movie follows the employees and patrons of a rundown theater on the night the cinema is screening Ted Radford’s The Dark Beneath. Though it was never a major hit, The Dark Beneath is t...