★★★ Following Dianna Agron’s career post-Glee has been a whirlwind of fascinating big-screen roles. Clock marks Agron’s first major horror appearance since 2011’s Hunters. How is it possible that Agron has already graduated to playing a thirty-seven-year-old mother when it feels like just yesterday she lorded over the streets of McKinley High in her Cheerios … Continue reading Overlook 2023: Clock
Overlook 2023: Late Night with the Devil
★★★★ Mockumentary-style found footage horror meets cheesy late-night talk show realness in subversive horror flick Late Night With the Devil from writer/director duo Cameron and Colin Cairnes. In 1970s America, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson reigned supreme over all other shows of its ilk. According to the introduction here, Night Owls with Jack Delroy, … Continue reading Overlook 2023: Late Night with the Devil
FrightFest Glasgow 2023: Here for Blood
★★★★ Gory throwback horror that feels like a delicious, campy mix of Cabin in the Woods and Last House on the Left was certainly not what I expected when I sat down to watch Here for Blood. This splatterfest is the directorial debut of Daniel Turres and screenwriter James Roberts. The film plays like a … Continue reading FrightFest Glasgow 2023: Here for Blood
SXSW 2023: Appendage
★★★★ One woman’s inner turmoil becomes a shit-talking outer tumor that grows and grows in writer/director Anna Zlokovic’s cringey little blast of fun, Appendage. The short film of the same name, which played 2022’s Sundance and became part of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween, was a lean, focused piece that perfectly executed its obvious depiction of … Continue reading SXSW 2023: Appendage
Film Review: Scream VI
★★★★★ Proving yet again that it remains the most consistent horror franchise ever made, Radio Silence delivers another instant horror-classic to sit alongside Wes Craven’s masterpieces with the intense, horrifying, ridiculously fun Scream VI! With the beautiful love letter to the original having been firmly established in the previous movie, part VI forges ahead to … Continue reading Film Review: Scream VI
Film Review: Unwelcome
★★★★ Throwback monster movies are something of a mixed bag. When successful, they can be a total blast—thankfully, this is the case with co-writer/director Jon Wright's latest feature Unwelcome, a goblin-addled take on Irish folk horror. Wright, whose previous projects include supernatural slasher The Tormented and alien-monster feature Grabbers, easily finds a careful balance of … Continue reading Film Review: Unwelcome
Film Review: Children of the Corn
★ Back in 2018, a close friend and I decided to start our next horror movie marathon by approaching a series that will be familiar to most Stephen King fans: Children of the Corn. However, while some may know the name, how many are aware that this newest take is actually the eleventh entry? That’s … Continue reading Film Review: Children of the Corn
Film Review: Consecration
★★ Jena Malone has been in some of my favorite films of all time, including mind-bending sci-fi thriller Donnie Darko, and body horror masterpiece The Ruins. Seeing her name listed on a title is always enough to get me excited regardless of the genre. Unfortunately, co-writer/director Christopher Smith’s Consecration is the rare dud in Malone’s … Continue reading Film Review: Consecration
Film Review: The Outwaters
★★★★ Found footage horror is one fickle beast, mainly because there is an extremely fine line between masterpiece and straight garbage. Audiences can quickly turn on a film they do not understand with little care for the craft that went behind it. No one is more aware of this obvious divide than writer/director/star of The … Continue reading Film Review: The Outwaters
Film Review: Fear
★★★ The concept of fear is a fascinating one indeed, varying drastically from person to person as to their ultimate fear. Taking fear as a construct and manifesting it into a tangible, dangerous entity is another story entirely. Co-writer/director Deon Taylor crafts a predictable film so filled with horror genre cliches that it is barely … Continue reading Film Review: Fear