Reviews
The Hills Run Red is a Criminally Underrated Slasher [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to ...
William Friedkin: Interviews Peeks into Director’s Mind [Book Review]
William Friedkin was one of the biggest directors of the 1970s. He struck it big in 1971 with the crime thriller The French Connection and had other hits throughout his fifty year career in film. Undo...
Butt Boy isn’t Quite a Sphincter de Force [Review]
A movie like Butt Boy is impossible to review, in the traditional sense. To critique any piece of media properly, there has to be some sort of measuring stick, some sort of preexisting gauge of qualit...
Infection is a Science Heavy Zombie Flick [DVD Review]
The ending of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is iconic. Ben, as brilliantly played by Duane Jones, goes to the window while an all-white militia is sweeping toward the farmhouse, h...
Shudder’s Cursed Films Series Finishes Strong [Review]
Cursed Films opened its season with explorations of the superstitions surrounding The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and The Omen. The religious and spiritual nature of the themes these films touch on seeming...
Essential Quarantine Listening: Let’s Go to Court!
If you mashed Legally Blonde with hit true crime podcast My Favorite Murder, you would probably get Let’s Go to Court. Hosted by two of the greatest legal minds of our time, okay, not reall...
We Summon the Darkness is Light, Throwaway Fun [Review]
Last year’s brilliant Satanic Panic pitted a pizza delivery girl against a group of rich Satanists in suburbia. We Summon the Darkness posits that it’s actually the young woman whoȁ...
In The Trap Stumbles Between Psychological And Supernatural Horror [Review]
In The Trap is the first English language feature from director Alessio Liguori (Report 51). Opening with an extended flashback sequence, a title card indicates this particular rainy night is in the s...
Sea Fever Offers Unexpected Prescience and an Opening for Ethical Debate [Review]
We’re in a moment where many properties seem prescient in ways not initially intended. Sea Fever’s personal and ethical dilemmas would have been relevant at any time, but they resonate e...