Film Reviews

For a myriad of reasons, Armageddon endures as a prominent theme in popular culture. Being plunged into the wasteland is oddly, yet understandably, attractive to individuals disenfranchised by an increasingly oppressive society. A segment of society has moved beyond the ...

Every now and then a film is released (usually within the horror genre) that turns heads with controversial and provocative material. In the early 1970’s, it was Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham’s The Last House on the Left (1972). In ...

I can’t say I was especially fond of The Human Centipede 2, and much of the merit that exists in that film is more attempt than necessarily execution. Perhaps the issue is that if we choose to read The Human ...

Mad Max: Fury Road is a film that knows its audience, which is not surprising given that George Miller returned to direct this new chapter of the franchise that began his career. He proves that even after directing two installments of Happy Feet, ...

Two distinct characteristics inform the short films of Richard Powell: dark family secrets and viscous secretions. Powell, taking up the torch ignited by Cronenberg, is responsible for creating some of the most startling and intensely emotional body horror imaginable. Worm (2010), Familiar (2012), ...

The Dead Lands may be the first New Zealand Maori-language action epic to shed a light on the country’s indigenous people, but perhaps how one feels about it comes down to this: if you like this type of movie, you will ...

Izzy Lee’s new short film Postpartum plays on all sorts of fears: fears women have of becoming mothers, and what can happen to them afterwards; fears our society has of what women can turn into once they give birth; and ...

Images of blossoming and withering flowers permeate Spring (2014), an enchanting new film from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the pair responsible for 2012’s genre-bending Resolution. It’s a painful reminder that all living things–no matter how beautiful–have a finite time on ...

What do you think of when you hear the term horror film? Does there need to be a threat of violence, a monster, blood and gore? It is a term that is either liberally thrown around, or—often for fear of ...

Vampires have long stood as an icon of horror cinema with their roots dating all the way back to F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu in 1922. The problem with being such a popular staple of the genre is that, after so many ...