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Natalie Erika James \ possession film \ possession horror \ possession thriller
Apartment 7A (Underappreciated Possession Horror)
At first glance, Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A looks identical to The First Omen: period legacy prequels to classic demon child movies, set six years apart; both by female directors, dealing with unwanted occultist-engineered pregnancies. They may walk the same path, but The First Omen stumbles, clumsy and shouting, while James’s film dances with […]
20th Century Studios \ Arkasha Stevenson \ Phantom Four Films \ Satanic horror \ supernatural horror \ supernatural thriller
The First Omen (Overhyped Supernatural Horror Fail)
Like it or not, mainstream devil movies are back in a big way. Starting with last October’s Exorcist reboot, movies like Immaculate, Longlegs, The Exorcism, Late Night With the Devil, The Pope’s Exorcist, The Deliverance, and more have made it the best multiplex era for The Dark One since the late-1990s millennial panic. Call […]
Bill Skarsgård \ Count Dracula \ Dracula \ Focus Features \ Gothic horror \ Gothic vampire \ Lily-Rose Depp \ Nosferatu \ Robert Eggers \ Universal Pictures \ vampire film \ vampires \ Willem Dafoe
Nosferatu (The Most Perfect of Gothic Vampires)
It’s hard to determine a good starting point for something like this. With the amount of press Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu received pre and post-release, what more can be said? You’d think it’d be pretty easy since I teach a damn class on vampires and know all about this shit, but the real goal here […]
ghost film \ haunted house \ haunted house film \ Neon \ Steven Soderbergh
Presence (POV Haunted House in Suburbia with Dark Secrets)
Every time the promo for Presence, by serial formal experimenter Steven Soderbergh, touted its novel conceit – a haunted house story from the ghost’s point of view – I did the old horror nerd scoff. “I guess we already forgot about Beetlejuice, not to mention [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS],” I said, […]
Anthony DiBlasi \ horror anthology \ Jeremy Kasten \ Marian Dora \ Michael Todd Schneider \ Nacho Vigalondo \ Ruggero Deodato \ Ryan Nicholson \ Sergio Stivaletti \ Unearthed Films \ Uwe Boll \ Yoshihiro Nishimura
The Profane Exhibit (Gorrific Horror Anthology)
The Profane Exhibit is a horror anthology featuring the talents of several international genre directors, and the horror tends to skew a bit more extreme and sadistic than what most fans likely go for. If you enjoy the films of the New French Extremity Movement and similar, then you’re likely the target demographic for […]
Bloody Disgusting \ Cineverse \ Damien Leone \ Dark Age Cinema \ David Howard Thornton \ Fuzz on the Lens Productions \ gore film \ horror film \ Lauren LaVera \ Paul Wiley \ Samantha Scaffidi \ splatterpunk \ Terrifier \ The Coven
Terrifier 3 (Subversive Christmas Splatterpunk Demonomania)
You’ve probably heard enough already, so this is going to be different than all the chaff. I’m not going to waste time on film history platitudes and name drops, so let’s get to the grit. I first heard about the original Terrifier far after release, in fact far after the release of Terrifier 2, […]
Error 4444 \ HK horror \ Hong Kong \ Hong Kong cinema \ Hong Kong horror \ Titus Ho
Red Spell Spells Red (Scorpion Black Magic Hong Kong Horror)
Being a fan of Hong Kong horror from the 1980s has always required a certain amount of effort. The footprint is small, everything’s been relegated to expensive video tapes, 480p YouTube videos, bootlegs and/or DVD’s that went OOP when HKflix.com was still a thing. Thank God for this current wave of boutique Blu-ray labels […]
auteur horror \ Béla Tarr \ Chris Nash \ Gasfire Flims \ IFC Films \ Shudder \ slasher film
In A Violent Nature (Basically if Béla Tarr Made a Slasher)
Alright I waited awhile on this, though I had every intention of reviewing it. The reception of this film, leaning more to the side of “hated it,” is curious to me, but Chris Nash’s big failure wasn’t in the delivery, the plot, or the characters. His mistake was assuming horror fans have watched anything […]
crime thriller \ Neon \ Nicholas Cage \ Osgood Perkins \ serial killer film
Longlegs (Satanically Inclined Arthouse Crime Thriller)
Longlegs has been one of the most anticipated horror movies of 2024, and it’s well worth the wait. Granted, I didn’t have to wait as long as I saw an advanced screening at the Aero Theater in Los Angeles at the end of May, complete with an introduction by director Osgood Perkins and star […]
88 Films \ giallo \ J-horror \ Japan \ Japanese horror \ slasher film \ Toshiharu Ikeda \ Unearthed Films
Evil Dead Trap / 死霊の罠 (Experimental J-Horror Slasher)
Here’s a good one, but not for reasons you’d likely guess. Having heard the legends of the “Evil Dead Trap Trilogy” (is it really though?), I was always curious about them, but not until I learned that 88 Films was doing their own Blu-ray drop of the first and second did I decide I […]
