Film Reviews

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, ...

There is an unnerving film to be made about postpartum depression, but House in the Alley isn’t quite it. Take Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a much darker and more psychologically nuanced horror film. Though a matter of taste, it was effective ...

New York filmmaker Joshua Zeman is not timid about confronting urban legends. His acclaimed 2009 documentary Cropsey (co-directed by Barbara Brancaccio) was an effective blend of myth and true crime investigation focusing on a notorious urban legend in his native ...

There’s power in the blood, but not in the acting.     XLrator Media’s Holy Ghost People is a psychological thriller, which is a technical triumph but is peppered with mediocre acting and an unsatisfying ending. Emma Greenwell, Brendan McCarthy, ...

The work of British artist Ralph Steadman has been called everything: shocking, deranged, perverse, angry, and downright venomous. Charlie Paul’s documentary For No Good Reason aims to undermine this negative critique of Steadman, offering in its place a fresh look ...