Film Reviews

For a publication that specializes in horror, reviewing a film that falls strictly outside the genre seems like a stretch.Korean director Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer may lack a supernatural monstrosity—or a faceless killer lurking in the shadows—, but sometimes the greatest ...

Following a series of made for TV and straight-to-DVD titles, Víctor García put his name on the horror film map by directing the ninth installment to the Hellraiser franchise, Hellraiser: Revelations. However, probably not in the manner he would prefer, ...

Nothing Bad Can Happen is one of those films that is incredibly wrenching and hard to watch; a story that breaks your heart and soul and hurts deeply. For those who don’t mind emotional sadomasochism—or relish it—this is a film for ...

Coherence is defined as the integration of several diverse elements, properties, or values, and that’s exactly what the film Coherence is. One night, a group of adults gather for a dinner party that appears to be pretty boring, as some ...

From his beginnings as a Calgon commercial director to the arguable king of the silver screen zombies, George Romero is an original. This doc chronicles his memories in the making of Night of the Living Dead, his iconic, groundbreaking horror ...

At first, All Cheerleaders Die feels like a giant step back for one Lucky McKee, something he might have made before 2003’s May and 2011’s The Woman—two great films that belong in the upper echelon of horror cinema. Here, the writer-director’s fifth film ...

Everyone has always dreamed of being a famous persona on television at least once in their life and Camp Dread (2014), a film written and directed by upcoming horror-film director Harrison Smith, assesses this dream. The film takes you on ...

Writer/Director Lou Simon’s film HazMat tells the story of a failing hidden-camera prank show called “Scary Antics,” where people put their friends in horror-film-styled situations before letting them in on the joke. Their latest episode is centered on Jacob (Norbert ...

When a film poses more questions than answers, the knee-jerk reaction is to peg it as an unintentional problem, as if the filmmakers made no artistic choice. Written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, Borgman is a compulsively ...

There are many scenes­­—combined with creepy, dark set pieces—that could have made Rigor Mortis a great film. Sadly, this is a film made for a generation raised on texts and short attention spans; with style over substance. To be fair, ...