Film Reviews

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 ...

Monsters are “real” in Digging Up the Marrow, an air-quotes documentary that doesn’t completely reinvent the whole found-footage format but improves upon it. After deformed backwoods slice-and-dicer Victor Crowley and frost bite, horror filmmaker Adam Green (he of the gory, fun ...

To engage an audience and elicit a specific emotional response from said audience is a basic and underlying principle of filmmaking, one that carries across all genres and periods. However, this principle is occasionally taken to the extreme and  has ...

Paul Solet’s chilling film Grace (2009) was as assured a feature debut as any budding filmmaker (or fan) could hope. The somber horror tale explored the effects of postpartum depression and isolation on a grieving young mother (Jordan Ladd). The ...

For a micro-budget horror pic, the most effective moments in Attack of the Morningside Monster are actually unrelated to the horror. Diehard genre fans who devour anything and everything with a masked killer making meat puppets out its cast are ...

The four-part Spanish horror [REC] series has proven to be strongest when it sticks to being more of the same rather than deviating too much in tone or palm-sweating tension. After co-directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza put viewers through the ...

Apparently, they do still make werewolf movies like they used to, and while Late Phases might be no An American Werewolf in London or Ginger Snaps, it is a capably effective horror film of two sides. In the one corner of the film, ...

In celebration of the season, those macabre magicians at Red Sneakers Media, along with BRAVO Fact, have made their award-winning short, The Last Halloween, available for free stream now through All Hallows’ Eve on October 31. We reviewed The Last ...