Film Reviews

On paper, 2013’s The ABCs of Death sounded like a horrific, disturbing nightmare come true for diehard horror aficionados; a chance to avert one’s eyes in shock, fright, and disgust for two hours’ worth as long as the alphabet. Disappointingly, the ...

In 2014, is self-imposed isolation and entertainment addiction really that unusual of a lifestyle choice? To answer that question we’ll peer into yet another human rat’s nest in the strange tale that is Don Thacker’s Motivational Growth, featuring Adrian DiGiovanni ...

Writer-directors Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath made a little knockout of a movie with 2012’s Entrance, which was described as “mumblecore with stakes.” For now, before they make another original film on the crafty, emotionally rattling levels of their feature debut, they have ...

The woods is always a surefire setting to tell a horror story that plays with isolation, especially when cell reception needs to be rendered useless. Low-budget chamber horror-drama Honeymoon isn’t just another excuse to throw gallons of karo syrup on a couple ...

When writer-director Nicholas McCarthy blazed a trail with his confidently creepy 2012 low-budget horror item The Pact—his first feature stretched from a ten-minute short he made—he conveyed an aptitude for building quiet dread and tension with enough restraint, even if the ...

There are basic human needs which we all seek out in our lives. The needs for shelter, food, friendship, even love, tend to lend themselves as driving forces for our very existence. Isolation creates rifts in the patterns of our ...

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 ...