horror films

Every year there is THE (pronounced thee) horror film. It’s the one horror that has the perfect dark cocktail of arthouse style and big screen effectiveness, and it unites critics, horror fans and normie cinemagoers alike. And,…

Now, this reviewer has to admit. I have been waiting for this film for a long time. I've known the director, veteran documentarist/TV director Paul Duane (making his feature film debut) since I was a teenager, and because we're in the same…

Let's face it, M. Night Shyamalan was once a revered genius. His sense of humanity and horror launched him into our lives with The Sixth Sense (1999) and its follow-up Unbreakable (2000). He was once an unstoppable, creative box-office…

Mandrake, Director Lynne Davison’s 85-minute feature film debut, opens with a scene at night in a foreboding, moss-covered forest (“the moss”). The camera looks down from above as a man who is chained around the neck digs desperately in…

All the way back in 2007, discussions of a new Hellraiser reboot/requel/whatever were publicized for all to see among the horror community. With a plethora of attached personalities and failed achievements, Hellraiser lingered in…

The V/H/S franchise is one of the longest running franchises in the found footage subgenre of horror cinema, bested only by Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch. In terms of quality, found footage movies are almost always a gamble. It’s…

The Scary of Sixty-First, the debut feature of podcaster Dasha Nekrasova, follows house hunters Noelle (Madeline Quinn, who shares a co-writing credit with Nekrasova) and Addie (Betsey Brown) who rent a strangely constructed, dirty but…

There’s a joke I made about writing this article: “how do I make a film about people isolated together and one of them going mad topical today?” I thought about that joke while I was watching The Shining’s opening, with its amazing…

Deep in the bowels of the horror genre beyond Stephen King, beyond Richard Matheson and far past even Clive Barker there exists a sub-genre known to the initiated as splatterpunk. Revolving around extreme violence of all kinds, splatterpunk…

5 more films in our list of alternative horror films to check out this Halloween. Funny Games (1997 & 2007) Dir. Michael Haneke Director Michael Haneke made this deeply unsettling film originally in German in 1997 before…