Film Reviews

Cult Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci revisits the giallo genre in his scuzzy 1982 film The New York Ripper.

Tittering, tongues-a-wagging, gasping, pearl-clutching, moral horror, lewd titillation, minor amusement, and total disinterest are all just some of the key emotions that audiences, especially Western ones, have towards nudity. If you think outside any of the religious and societal constructs ...

Lunatics: A Love Story (1991) is an eccentric but charming rom-com from the mind of director Josh Becker. This hidden gem stars three stalwarts of the horror genre, Ted Raimi (billed as Theodore), Deborah Foreman and Bruce Campbell, who also ...

In a kind of twisted reflection of recent events, She Dies Tomorrow treats 21st-century political confusion as deadly dystopian contagion  Remember that bit in David Lowry’s A Ghost Story (2017)? The bit that everyone hated where Roony Mara takes ages to eat a pie? ...

James (Daniel Stern) and James (Jonas Chernick) have a talk in James vs His Future Self. Canadian science-fiction comedy James vs. His Future Self (2019) sees older James (genre-film stalwart Daniel Stern in a thoroughly engaging performance) travel back in ...

This year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN; Bucheon, South Korea) boasted some fine international crime cinema as part of its intriguing selection of genre-film fare.

As rich in family drama as it is in its fear-fare elements, Relic looks at generational and familial dynamics.

Cosmic horror and body horror make for a potent, deadly duo in The Beach House (2019), the debut feature from writer/director Jeffrey A. Brown. Though the film serves up tropes previously explored by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen ...

The film avoids the tropes of “lovers facing a terminal illness” movies for the most part, offering instead a quirky, sometimes acerbic, original take on such subject matter.

Cosmic, or Lovecraftian horror, can be defined as ”Fear and awe we feel when confronted by phenomena beyond our comprehension, whose scope extends beyond the narrow field of human affairs and boasts of cosmic significance”.  It is a rather broad ...