Film Reviews

There is something about Christmas time and the combination of red/green aesthetics with residual, familial tensions that invite viewings of violent chaos and transgressing virtue.

The whole world’s watching, and waiting, and it’s only a matter of time before you fuck it all up – Lily  Where to begin, gentle reader?Well, let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start. Moments ...

While the openings to Fred Walton’s The Sitter (1977), When A Stranger Calls (1979), and When A Stranger Calls Back (1993) don’t match-up completely, they are remarkably similar, and when it comes to The Sitter and When A Stranger Calls ...

May Dove Canady (Angela Bettis) lives in a box. Separated from the world around her, her gaze fixates through sheets glass on that which she cannot have. Glasses correct a lazy eye that in childhood was covered by an indiscreet ...

Lords of Chaos (2018) is the fourth feature from director Jonas Åkerlund, and charts the inception of Norwegian Black Metal in the early 1990s. The movie attempts to shine some light on mysterious progenitor Øystein Aarseth a.k.a. Euronymous, Oslo’s infamous ...

The Case of the Bloody Iris was originally released in 1972 under the enigmatic title Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Why Those Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer’s Body?). In a film defined by the ...

Conflict between Man and the Devil has served as a long-running, albeit waning, theme in popular story telling. “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” are all popular American examples, but the ...

To begin with, Karen Black didn’t even want to appear in Trilogy of Terror. To hear her tell the story, it took an all-night coaxing session by her agent, as well as the promise that her then-husband Robert Burton would ...

In a recent interview with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the 2018 remake/reboot/sequel/reanimated corpse of Halloween (2018) underwent re-writes before making it to the screen. Most significantly, the opening of the film changed from a ...

S. Craig Zahler continues to cement himself (no pun intended) as one of modern genre cinema’s great directors with his third feature Dragged Across Concrete (2018), a brutal and brooding crime epic clocking in at two hours and forty minutes. ...