In times of conflict and uncertainty, genre filmmakers often act by creating bold, bloody, brilliant, and provocative art. If it wasn’t for the Vietnam War then the careers of Martin Scorsese, Wes Craven, George Romero, and Tobe Hooper could have ...

Death in the Garden, the English title of Luis Buñuel’s La Mort en ce Jardin (1956), reads like the name of a cosy Agatha Christie murder mystery. Anybody who is daft enough to imagine that is what they are going ...

Ever since the self-aware stroke of genius that was Wes Craven’s Scream (1996)—a deconstruction of slasher movies that doubled as a great example of a slasher movie—there haven’t been a ton of films that have come as close to turning ...

Seasonal horror films are looked at differently, graded in a different light. Because of seminal classics such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978), and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), and even newer age staples like Trick r’ Treat (2007) and Krampus (2015), the holiday horror film ...

  April (Amanda Fuller) and Eric (Ethan Embry) are a hipster couple who run a vintage clothing store in Austin, Texas. Eric seems to be having an affair with one of the store’s other employees, a speculation that moves April ...

This enchanting French film has both a subtitled and an English-dubbed version. Although the dubbed version features the voice talents of Ellen Page and Amy Sedaris, among others, I implore you to see the French version if you can. The ...

The Fantasia International Film Festival, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has a history of not only varied films, but Asian cinema in particular, hosting films from Hong Kong and Japan in its early days. It has since spread its wings ...

“Nudists probably don’t go jogging.” From these first words spoken in the voiceover that dominates much of Yuya Ishii’s The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue, we are offered unexpected, often poetic insights. Other more morbid, ...

Horror fans understand it better than any other fandom on the planet. Watching, reading, devouring any content that comes their way in search of that next diamond in the rough. Even now, fans are going back to the libraries of ...

Korean action film Ak-Nyeo (The Villainess, 2017) opens with a blood-soaked sequence using first-person-shooter video game perspective, to the point of showing the unknown character reload a gun and change weapons in the middle of the screen while moving. Dozens ...