Fantasia Review: Hurt, only death is real

July 27, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Anguish and Family Blood director Sonny Mallhi leans into more familiar territory with his true life slasher Hurt, a film that digs into real-life drama with a cold, bloody knife. Soaking up the dark, cool atmosphere of a Halloween night, Hurt has all the pieces of a great slasher flick, but does it ever put them […]

Review: Revenge, beauty and beast

May 19, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Coralie Fargeat swings for the fences with her first feature film Revenge, a brutal shocker that joins a long line of rape-revenge thrillers. Structurally speaking, it’s very familiar to those that came before it—rape and revenge are its main ingredients after all—yet Fargeat’s film feels like something entirely different. Revenge leaves the sleazy exploitative nature of […]

Review: Ghost Stories, seeing is believing

April 18, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman bring their stage play to the screen with Ghost Stories, an anthology-like tale of the supernatural that stitches three cases of unexplained terror together in a way that’s never flashy or over-the-top. It springs to life in a funhouse of horrors kind of way that leans into some great jump scares […]

Review: Pyewacket, summoning fate

March 19, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Pyewacket. That’s not exactly the kind of horror title that instills much confidence into those who come across it. For a film that’s rooted in the occult and about a story of teenage angst that results in a family being torn apart, there had to be a better option on the table. Instead, and unfortunately […]

Review: The Ritual, stay close

February 19, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

It was only a matter of time before Netflix handed the keys over to a guy like David Bruckner, who is now more than ever one of the most exciting directors in the genre. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen the steaming outlet take more and more chances on horror filmmakers (Mike Flanagan […]

Review: Dead Shack, what’s with all the unicorns?

February 15, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Since Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, humans turned flesh-eating monsters have become a staple in horror and for good reason. They’re inherently terrifying, which lends itself to more serious genre fare, yet we often see them portrayed in horror comedies like Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland (just to […]