Reviews – Page 14 – All Things Ick

‘The A-Frame’ Tribeca Review – A Sci-fi Horror Comedy With a Macabre Sense of Justice

June 7, 2024 Meagan Navarro Calvin Lee Reeder, Reviews, The A-Frame, Tribeca, Tribeca 2024

The setup for writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder’s dark, goopy sci-fi horror comedy The A-Frame adheres to the time-honored tradition of ambitious scientists unleashing grotesque horrors when dabbling with unknown realities beyond our own. While that does mean Cronenbergian body horror ahead, Reeder’s pitch-black sense of humor instead places this twisted slice of sci-fi horror closer […]

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‘The Watchers’ Review – Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Sleepy Irish Fairy Tale

June 6, 2024 Meagan Navarro Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Ishana Night Sha, Olwen Fouéré, Reviews, The Watchers

There’s a simplicity to writer/director Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature debut, The Watchers, an adaptation of the novel by A.M. Shine. The horror fairy tale traps four strangers in a mysterious forest untethered from reality, where they must observe a handful of straightforward rules to appease the inhuman things that come to observe them every night. It’s […]

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Anxiety and Apocalyptic Road-Trips in ‘I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom’ [Review]

June 6, 2024 Luiz H. C. Books, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, Jason Pargin, John Dies at the End, Longform, Reviews

The rise of widely available internet during the late 90s and early 2000s gave up-and-coming authors a brand-new avenue through which they could share their words with the world without the need for publishers. Back then, free-to-read blogs and personal websites weren’t just gathering places for readers, they were also a forum that allowed writers […]

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‘Nightmare Kart’ Transcends Its Fan Game Origins With Clever Twist on Kart Racing [Review]

June 4, 2024 Aaron Boehm bloodborne, itch.io, Lilith Walther, Nightmare Kart, PC, Reviews, steam, Video Games

It all began as an April Fool’s Day joke. After successfully releasing Bloodborne PSX, an ingenious demake of the PS4 classic, Lilith Walther aka PSX Bunlith released a trailer for Bloodborne Kart, moving the grim characters of the FromSoft classic to the world of kart racing. A few months later, she announced that she had […]

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‘Under Paris’ Review – Inventive Shark Horror Movie Held Back by Familiar Tropes

June 3, 2024 Meagan Navarro Netflix, Reviews, Under Paris, Xavier Gens

The familiar touchstones of summer shark horror are there in spades in French filmmaker Xavier Gens’ (Frontier(s), Cold Skin) Netflix feature Under Paris. Jaws and eco-horror collide as a Mako shark goes rogue right at the peak of summer’s busy season. As its title suggests, the novelty here comes in the form of its setting: […]

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Culinary Thriller ‘What You Wish For’ Is a Dish Worth Dying For [Review]

May 31, 2024 Joe Lipsett Ariel Sierra, Brian Groh, Juan Carlos Messier, Nicholas Tomnay, Nick Stahl, Penelope Mitchell, Randy Vasquez, Reviews, Tamsin Topolski

Who among us hasn’t secretly yearned for someone else’s life? Whether it’s a famous celebrity or just a well-to-do friend, coveting someone else’s seemingly perfect life is commonplace. The concept takes a dark twist in writer/director Nicholas Tomnay’s feature, What You Wish For. And while the title may eschew the first few words of the […]

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‘Mirror Mirror’ 4K Ultra HD Review – Dark Force Entertainment Resurrects ’90s Cable Staple

May 30, 2024 Geof Capodanno Dark Force Entertainment, Home Video, Mirror Mirror, Movies, Reviews

Do any of you hardcore horror fanatics remember Mirror Mirror from 1990? It had a theatrical release, but garnered much of its popularity on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores nationwide and became a late-night cable staple for several years throughout the decade. And yes, it should be considered somewhat “popular” since it spawned three […]

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‘Deathdream’ 4K Ultra HD Review – Bob Clark’s Horror Movie Gets an Upgrade 50 Years Later

May 30, 2024 Alex DiVincenzo Blue Underground, Bob Clark, Deathdream, Home Video, Movies, Reviews

The same year that he laid the groundwork for a horror revolution with Black Christmas, Bob Clark released Deathdream (also known as Dead of Night). The 1974 horror film is understandably overshadowed by his influential proto-slasher, but it was on Deathdream that the filmmaker honed his skills that would fuel his masterpiece of the genre: […]

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‘Daddy’s Deadly Secret’ Is One of the Year’s Best Lifetime Thrillers [Review]

May 30, 2024 Joe Lipsett Andréa Grant, Ferelith Young, Leo McGuigan, lifetime, Maya Misaljevic, Reviews, Sarah Allen, Sean Cisterna, Steve Belford, Steve Byers

One of the reasons that Lifetime films are so pleasurable is because they’re inherently familiar. The conflict typically centers around rich (often white) women whose lives are embroiled in adulterous and/or murderous affairs. There’s a plucky, overly supportive best friend; a cop who does nothing; and a therapist or red herring who gets killed to […]

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‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game’ Review – Cult Movie Becomes a Uniquely Fun Multiplayer Experience

May 28, 2024 Harrison Abbott Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game, Reviews, Video Games

If you were to shortlist all of the legendary horror films that are crying out for a video game adaptation, it’s unlikely that the first to spring to mind would be the one in which alien invaders encase people inside cotton candy cocoons, so that they can later drink said abductees gelatinised fluids through a […]

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[Review] Tabletop RPG ‘Mothership’ Has All the Tools for Exploring the Terrifying Corners of Outer Space

May 21, 2024 Aaron Boehm Mothership, Reviews, Toys, TTRPG, Tuesday Knight Games

In 2019, the first iteration of Mothership, now known as 0e, won several awards at the Ennies, one of the biggest awards in the tabletop RPG space. A couple years later, they ran a massively successful Kickstarter campaign for a print run, earning over $1.4 million. Not only did this include updated 1e rules, but […]

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‘Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker’ 4K Review – Why This 1981 Movie Is Begging for Reappraisal

May 21, 2024 Alex DiVincenzo Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker, Home Video, Reviews, Severin Films

Between its striking title, lurid artwork, and the timing of its release — 1981 bore the likes of Halloween II, Friday the 13th Part 2, My Bloody Valentine, The Burning, The Funhouse, The Prowler, and Happy Birthday to Me — one might mistake Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (also known as Night Warning) for a run-of-the-mill […]

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Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’ Finds Beauty and Hope in Nihilistic Horror [Review]

May 20, 2024 Jenn Adams Books, Reviews, Stephen King, You Like It Darker

Stephen King may be known for epic novels like It and The Stand, but many Constant Readers first met the Master of Horror through his short fiction. Beginning with the iconic 1978 collection Night Shift, the best-selling author has been dazzling us for decades with short stories overflowing with sickening gore, fantastical creatures, meticulous violence, […]

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‘System Shock’ Review – Nightdive’s Remake Makes a Frustrating Leap to Consoles

May 20, 2024 Harrison Abbott Reviews, system shock, Video Games

Historical preservation has never been much of a priority in the gaming biz, with this commercially-driven industry preferring to chase after what’s trendy and in vogue, oftentimes at the expense of its own heritage. After all, there’s little profit to be squeezed from varnishing creaky retro titles that are well past their prime (and of […]

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‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ Review – New Trilogy Kicks Off with a Familiar Start

May 16, 2024 Meagan Navarro featured, Madelaine Petsch, Reviews, The Strangers, The Strangers Trilogy, The Strangers: Chapter 1, topnews

Rebooting and expanding upon Bryan Bertino’s chilling 2008 horror film in a brand new trilogy, all installments already shot as part of one continuous, overarching story, makes for one of the more ambitious horror endeavors as of late. It also means that The Strangers: Chapter 1 is only the opening act of a three-part saga. Considering […]

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