Reviews

‘Hellboy: The Crooked Man’ Is a Cursed Hex That Further Damns the Franchise [Review]

Daniel Kurland Brian Taylor, Hellboy, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Mike Mignola, Movies, Reviews

Despite an evocative atmosphere and a rewarding embrace of folk horror, Brian Taylor’s take on the big, red paranormal detective feels creatively lost in limbo.  Hellboy is a promising property that’s periodically stumbled with its live-action adaptations. There’s such a rich world to pull from here that brilliantly mashes together Lovecraftian horror, pulp detective fiction, […]

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‘Shock Induction’ – Meta Mind Control Manifesto Is Chuck Palahniuk’s Strongest Work in Years [Review]

Daniel Kurland Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Novels, Palahniuk, Reviews, Shock Induction

Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel is an experimental and subversive coming of age satire that skewers an increasingly commodified society through hallucinogenic hubris. “Clarity is paramount. Even when the goal is to create confusion.” Chuck Palahniuk is one of this generation’s most explosive and subversive storytellers, but there have been increasingly diminishing returns for his more […]

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‘Push’ Review – ‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Filmmakers Deliver Extremely Tense Home Invasion Movie

Meagan Navarro David Charbonier, Justin Powell, Movies, Push, Raúl Castillo, Reviews

Writers/Directors David Charbonier and Justin Powell (The Boy Behind the Door, The Djinn) have a way with single-location thrillers that are simplistic in setup but visceral in unrelenting suspense. Their style of lean, efficient storytelling that puts the horror first continues with their latest, Push (formerly titled Open House). Armed with a much bigger location and […]

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‘Solar Opposites: The Hunt for Brown October’ Creatively Combines Two Holiday Classics [Review]

Daniel Kurland Great Pumpkin, Halloween, halloween special, Hulu, Reviews, Solar Opposites, TV

‘Solar Opposites’ returns for a transformative Halloween special that gets to the crux of the spooky season by riffing on a Christmas classic. “Stop celebrating Halloween? Oh no, my pretty. I think you’ll find that you ARE Halloween.” Halloween specials have become a long and storied tradition in television and they’re a great opportunity for […]

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“Scare Tactics” Premiere Review – Jordan Peele’s Reboot Lacks Innovation

Paul Lê Jordan Peele, Monkeypaw Productions, Reviews, Scare Tactics, TV, USA Network

Hardly a month after MTV’s Punk’d premiered in 2003, The Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) debuted its own unique take on the hidden-camera format. Both series indeed played elaborate pranks on folks, but Scare Tactics set itself apart by placing everyday people in horror movie-like scenarios. This creep-show survived on its concept for a good five […]

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Lifetime’s ‘The Book Club Murders’ Features a Great Over the Top Killer [Review]

Joe Lipsett Aaron Goehle, Ainsley Burch, Brittany Underworld, Deven Bromme, Ebony Ramquist, Eva Igo, Joy Ford, Julia Zook, Kate Dailey, Kiki Yellam, lifetime, Logan Giese, Mike Bredon, Nicole Weber, Reviews

The Book Club Murders quite literally begins with a house on fire. Like many Lifetime films, the film will eventually circle back around to the cold open, but for a long stretch the image of a burning home hangs over the proceedings. Months have passed when the film proper begins: Natalie Johnston (Brittany Underworld) and […]

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‘Zoochosis’ Review – Tedious Gameplay and Cliche Story Fail to Live Up to Eye-Catching Concept

Aaron Boehm body horror, Clapperheads, PC, Reviews, steam, Video Games, Zoochosis

A great way to create horror is to take something that’s supposed to spark joy, then twist it into something sinister. Pennywise from It, the animatronic horrors of Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Doki Doki Literature Club all understand this concept and wield it like a knife. Clapperheads’ new game Zoochosis applies this concept to […]

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“The Creep Tapes” Review – Peachfuzz Is Back and Weirder Than Ever in New TV Series

Meagan Navarro Creep, Fantastic Fest 2024, Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Reviews, The Creep Tapes, TV

Creep and its sequel, Creep 2, introduced an offbeat, darkly funny and deeply weird serial killer who preyed upon videographers, documenting the awkward social dance leading up to their unwitting murder. Co-writer/Director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass created a memorable new horror villain, one that initially disarmed with boyish charms before ramping up the […]

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‘The Severed Sun’ Review – Folk Horror Tale Offers Timeless Message [FF 2024]

Trace Thurman Dean Puckett, Fantastic Fest 2024, Folk Horror, Reviews, The Severed Sun

Evil comes in many forms. In horror films, it’s often in the form of an inhuman creature or supernatural entity. With folk horror films, however, evil is often personified in people and their actions, seeing the sub-genre interrogate the dark nature of mankind. In The Severed Sun, writer/director Dean Puckett‘s feature debut, a creature may […]

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‘MadS’ Review – A Single-Take Outbreak Horror Movie from the Director of 2006’s ‘Them’

Meagan Navarro David Moreau, Fantastic Fest 2024, MadS, Reviews

Director David Moreau knows a thing or two about helming intense horror set over the course of a single evening; the filmmaker previously unnerved with the 2006 home invasion horror Ils (Them). His latest, MadS, takes it a step further with an energetic horror movie presented as a single continuous take tracking a night that […]

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‘Mr. Crocket’ Review – Impressive Effects Can’t Save a Pedestrian Script [FF 2024]

Trace Thurman Brandon Espy, Fantastic Fest 2024, Huluween, Mr. Crocket, Reviews

1980s nostalgia is out and 1990s nostalgia is in, with the horror genre doling out films like I Saw the TV Glow (review) and now Mr. Crocket, an adaptation of Brandon Espy’s 2022 short of the same name (itself a part of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series). Espy’s feature debut sadly sees the filmmaker struggling to find inspiration, […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ Review – New Adaptation Guts Stephen King’s Story for Empty Vampire Scares

Meagan Navarro Gary Dauberman, Movies, Reviews, salem's lot, Stephen King

Writer/Director Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot makes it easy to see why the previous two adaptations of Stephen King’s 1975 novel were miniseries. King packs his stories with rich character work and humanity, so much so that the 1979 and 2004 adaptations couldn’t condense 439 pages into any less than 181 minutes of runtime. After sitting […]

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Survival Horror FPS ‘Pneumata’ Could Use a Second Draft [Review]

Thomas Wilde Pneumata, Reviews, Video Games

I’ve been drawn into a couple of conversations over the last year or so, usually against my will, about the use of excessive signposting in video games. Recent releases like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the Separate Ways DLC for the Resident Evil 4 remake, and Still Wakes the Deep have slathered their environments in yellow […]

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Ryan Murphy’s ‘Grotesquerie’ Kicks Off to a Strong, Sinister Start [Review]

Daniel Kurland American Horror Story, Grotesquerie, Joe Baken, Jon Robin Baitz, Micaela Diamond, Neicy Nash-Betts, Reviews, Ryan Murphy, TV

‘Grotesquerie’ channels Se7en, Hannibal, Longlegs, and religious serial killer thrillers in a compelling two-handed murder mystery. “The end is near.” Grotesquerie, for all intents and purposes, is Season 13 of American Horror Story, only it’s operating under an original title because the AHS brand has become so tainted. It honestly feels like Grotesquerie might have […]

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‘Azrael’ Review – Samara Weaving Stuns in Dialogue-Free Biblical Survival Horror Movie

Meagan Navarro Azrael, E.L. Katz, Movies, Reviews, Samara Weaving, Simon Barrett

Azrael, the latest from director E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest, You’re Next), takes the golden rule of showing, not telling, to heart. Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Scream VI) takes on the title role in this survival horror movie set in a post-Rapture world where speaking is forbidden. It makes […]

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