★★★ Last year, Dianna Agron starred in the pregnancy horror flick Clock, and the whole thing felt like a bit of a missed opportunity. In a similar vein, I was worried for Adam O’Brien’s Mom; specifically, that it would fall into the typical demonic child trope that frequently plagues so many of these genre movies. … Continue reading FrightFest Glasgow 2024: Mom
Cinequest 2024: The Island Between Tides
★★★ One thing I have learned about Cinequest Film Festival: there always seems to be at least one movie involving ghosts/the supernatural. This year, that entry is titled The Island Between Tides, an eerie chiller with a time-travel tinged twist. Perhaps we have seen this before to varying degrees of success, yet in its amalgamation … Continue reading Cinequest 2024: The Island Between Tides
Film Review: Stopmotion
★★★★★ Rare is the horror film that actually frightens a seasoned genre viewer, but Stopmotion feels committed to doing just that from the second it begins. This disturbing flick doubles down on nightmarish imagery and psychological torment as its singular vision from writer/director Robert Morgan tightens the chokehold. By focusing on a deeply traumatized young … Continue reading Film Review: Stopmotion
SBIFF 2024: Queen of Bones
★★ Collecting a cast of wonderful character actors including Martin Freeman, Jacob Tremblay, and Taylor Schilling, Queen of Bones instantly shot up to “must see” status. The stills gave a mysterious, alluring quality seeming to promise intrigue or, at the very least, eerie atmosphere to spare. Unfortunately, Queen of Bones lacks the skeletal structure to … Continue reading SBIFF 2024: Queen of Bones
Film Review: Departing Seniors
★★★★★ The first great horror slasher of 2024 has arrived, and it is super queer! Just in time to take attendance: Departing Seniors, debut director Clare Cooney’s take on a meta, atmospheric blend of horror and comedy. This yearbook of entertaining tropes recalls (and often directly name-drops) too many 90s classics to cite. The primary … Continue reading Film Review: Departing Seniors
Film Review: Sunrise
★★★★ As much as I love vampire stories, cinematically, they rarely rise to the top of the heap for me when it comes to horror subgenres. Rather, their rich mythologies and deeply-developed characters thrive better in the television landscape. Director Andrew Baird (Zone 414, One Way) tries dipping his toes in the vampire lore, to … Continue reading Film Review: Sunrise
Film Review: Destroy All Neighbors
★★★ Emerging from the depths of Shudder like some long-lost episode of an adult Goosebumps, Destroy All Neighbors wastes no time plunging us down an endless tunnel of depravity. In the opening crawl, audiences are literally thrown into a twisty/turny credits sequence that promises a stylish horror gem. A trio of writers (Charles A. Pieper, … Continue reading Film Review: Destroy All Neighbors
Our Favorite Films of 2023
Join Josh and Allison as we revisit the cinematic landscape of 2023 through yearbook-style superlatives, then reveal our choices for our favorite movies of year! Can you feel the Kenergy? Movie Yearbook Superlatives! Best horror movie JOSH: Lest we thought 2022 was the dawn of a new horror golden age, 2023 continues the trend with … Continue reading Our Favorite Films of 2023
Most Anticipated Films of 2024
Goodbye 2023! It's time to prep for a sequel-heavy new year. Allison and I have compiled a list of the twenty-five films we are most looking forward to seeing. As with last year, a few of these are holdovers from 2023 that have still yet to be released, mainly due to the strikes that crippled … Continue reading Most Anticipated Films of 2024
4K Blu-Ray Film Review: Bride, Seed, Curse, and Cult of Chucky
The world cannot get enough of queer creator Don Mancini. Random remake aside, Mancini has written every Chucky entry since its inception, including the entirety of SyFy’s phenomenal television continuation. This means that Mancini has the distinction of still carrying a decades-old franchise on his shoulders, helping maintain the consistency and relevancy forevermore. Revisiting the … Continue reading 4K Blu-Ray Film Review: Bride, Seed, Curse, and Cult of Chucky