★★★★ As of 2025, the backlash against artificial intelligence rages on even as we incorporate it more in our day to day life. Technology always has its benefits and downsides, but there’s an inherent implication that through using AI, we are losing a piece of ourselves. Cogn-AI-tive lampoons our fear of AI by imagining a … Continue reading FrightFest 2025: Cogn-AI-tive
Film Review: Brute 1976
★★★★ A gory slice of star spangled hell oozing with grungy 70s atmosphere, Marcel Walz has returned with his most assured feature yet. In what has clearly been crafted as a tribute to slashers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, Brute 1976 finds a group of friends out to film a … Continue reading Film Review: Brute 1976
Film Review: Hell House LLC: Lineage
★ For the fifth installment in the unexpected Hell House LLC franchise, creator/writer/director Stephen Cognetti takes us on a convoluted trip through series lore in Hell House LLC: Lineage. Two years after the surprisingly good Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, Cognetti returns in an effort to weave together all the disparate elements of … Continue reading Film Review: Hell House LLC: Lineage
Film Review: Witchboard
★★★★ From iconic genre filmmaker Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors) comes a remake that VHS-lovers alone will probably recognize by name: Witchboard. If ever there was a series more fit to be reimagined, it would probably be this one. Characterized by their cheesy covers and ouija-board hijinks, this unexpected three-movie … Continue reading Film Review: Witchboard
TV Review: Wednesday – Season 2
It feels like only yesterday that the first season of breakout Netflix mash Wednesday became a veritable pop culture phenomena. In reality, nearly three years have passed since we last visited the hallowed halls of Nevermore Academy. In the interim, lead star Jenna Ortega has seen monumental success with Scream VI and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and … Continue reading TV Review: Wednesday – Season 2
Film Review: Strange Harvest
★★★★★ As any fan of the horror genre can attest, actually discovering a film that genuinely scares or even causes nightmares is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Often we gravitate towards what spooked us in our younger years, chasing that high and hoping that the next great horror film will truly get … Continue reading Film Review: Strange Harvest
Fantasia 2025: Influencers
★★★★ 2022's Influencer was a surprising delight, nicely folding into the crazy bitch canon alongside the likes of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle or Poison Ivy, yet with a decidedly modern twist. Its serial killer used deepfakes and AI technology to quite literally become her victim, in a purely online sort of way. Now, … Continue reading Fantasia 2025: Influencers
Fantasia 2025: Hellcat
★★★ Finding a truly unique concept comes easily, especially in the horror genre, yet so often they can flounder in execution. Hellcat has no such issue. The new film from writer/director Brock Bodell takes a compelling angle for a tense game of cat and mouse. When Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes up trapped and injured in … Continue reading Fantasia 2025: Hellcat
Film Review: The Home
★ Since 2023, AMC has been regularly holding their 'Screen Unseen' program—an exciting event that often drops surprise movies early. This can help to expose audiences to films they would not have otherwise sought out. Most recently, they dropped perhaps their most high profile title yet with Jurassic World: Rebirth. Their horror iteration, 'Scream Unseen,' … Continue reading Film Review: The Home
Film Review: Bambi: The Reckoning
★★★★ From director Dan Allen of the surprisingly good It Came from Below comes the next entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe: Bambi: The Reckoning. Admittedly, only Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey came across my radar, and I neglected to check out subsequent entries in the series. Bambi was too good a concept to … Continue reading Film Review: Bambi: The Reckoning