Reviews
Review – Horror Short “Stakeout” (2020)
Short films have a history of being the perfect proofs of concepts for their future feature length counterparts. I also think it is a fantastic way for filmmakers to hone their craft, perfecting pacin...
Review – Cry Havoc (2020)
My father and I rarely were afforded the opportunity to bond when I was a kid. I was an academic kid with interests that fell well beyond what our tiny town in rural Illinois had to offer and he was t...
Yup, Color Out of Space is the Most Brilliant, Fucked Up Thing You’ll See All Year
At some point in time the horror genre became so synonymous with haunted dolls, jump scares and homicidal puzzles that the audience just forgot that it could ask for more. We waited for the next seque...
Review – Teacher Shortage (2020)
Troy Escamilla’s (Party Night) Teacher Shortage manages to do some pretty great things in its hour and twenty minutes. Firstly, in a market where most slashers are more concerned with establishi...
Review – Crypsis (2019)
There’s an undeniable charm to Paul Anthony Rogers’ almost militant approach to straight forward film-making that makes Crypsis hard not to like. A group of friends, on a dare, decide to venture...
Review – The Premonition (Short 2019)
From the second The Premonition opens you know that are a couple of things are evident: Director James Ersted knows exactly what he’s doing. The camera follows Ersted’s vision effortlessly...
Review – The Night Sitter (2019)
*Spoilers* The Night Sitter is a “bad babysitter gone good” horror flick that is reminiscent of the paranormal-styled slasher films of the 1990’s and early 2000’s. We are intr...
Review – “Momo: The Missouri Monster” (2019)
(possible spoiler alert ahead) Small Town Monsters productions and director Seth Breedlove have graced us with another cryptid adventure, “Momo: The Missouri Monster”. Narrated by monster l...
Review – IT: Chapter 2 (2019)
I have made absolutely no apologies about my love for 2017’s IT. I think it might be one of the bigger accomplishments of mainstream horror cinema, in scope, in ambition, and fortunately for us ...