Mini Reviews: REAL CASES OF SHADOW PEOPLE, JUNE 9, and SHOPPING TOUR
Real Cases of Shadow People: The Sarah McCormick Story (2019) Overlong found footage movie about three friends who disappeared while making a documentary on the subject of shadow people. There’s some interesting interviews with relatives of people who’re seemingly abducted…
Mini Reviews: SAINT MAUD, THE CAVE, and THE WITCH
Saint Maud (2020) A victim of false advertising, this was marketed as some kind of supernatural horror film in the vein of Hereditary but is instead a psychological character study about a young nurse (Morfydd Clark) who, after experiencing a…
URBAN LEGEND and URBAN LEGENDS Mini Reviews
Urban Legend (1998) One of the better post-Scream horror offerings with enjoyable shades of ’80s slasher tropes about a college tormented by a hooded ax killer who uses famous urban legends as their modus operandi. Good characters and excellent atmospherics…
DERANGED and ED GEIN Mini Reviews
Deranged (1974) Hysterically OTT Psycho dupe (that predated Texas Chainsaw Massacre by several months) about an Ed Gein-like simpleton (Roberts Blossom) whose obsession with his mother spirals out of control after she dies, resulting in him stealing her corpse and…
Found Footage Roundup
If you’re in the mood for some POV action this steamy summer you should check out these found footage titles currently streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi. First up is Horror in the High Desert (2021), a nice slow burner,…
Quick Review: The new Wrong Turn goes off course
This review might contain spoilers! Those expecting to see something similar to the 2003 cult fav Wrong Turn when they sit down to watch this reboot will be sorely disappointed. Despite having been written by the original Wrong Turn‘s Alan…
Guest Movie Reviews: Synchronic, Wolf of Snow Hollow, and More
Hey guys! My friend and fellow movie nerd, Aaron Reid, is going to be guest writing this week. Here are Aaron’s reviews on a batch of new and semi-new releases. Synchronic (2019) “The present is a miracle.” Steve and Dennis,…
An Interview with Joshua Criss, Writer/Director of Leaving D.C.
This interview contains minor spoilers, so if you have not yet watched the films mentioned in this post please do so first and come back! I had the opportunity of sitting down with filmmaker Joshua Criss to discuss his 2012…
Horror at Sundance ’21
I had the opportunity to participate in this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, and naturally I selected most of the titles out of the horror section. In doing so I watched several good new horror films that will hopefully find…