It is legitimately amazing to me how many shark attack movies there have been made in the world ever since the success of Jaws back in the 1970’s. “Shark attack movies” is almost commonplace enough to be its own whole genre of cinema. No other breed of animal has been committed to film as predatory antagonists nearly as often as sharks have. Granted, it’s not … Continue reading Thrash Review
You know a Shudder movie is a big deal when it gets a full theatrical release before it hits the horror streaming service. Previously, such films have included Late Night With The Devil and In A Violent Nature. These were efforts where there was clearly enough sentiment that they would do well in cinemas and draw in some more profit for the company, so they … Continue reading Dolly Review
The Wrestler-To-Actor pipeline sure is full of twists and turns and loop-de-loops. You would think that being real time performers for whom speaking is a large part of the job, they would be able to create a screen presence and recite lines pretty easily when allowed multiple takes. And yet, it’s anything besides a sure thing, as history has shown. One of the greatest and … Continue reading Night Patrol Review
Supernatural Folk Horror THE WHISTLER Starring Diane Guerrero & Juan Pablo Raba Haunts Theaters April 17 Diane Guerrero (Doom Patrol, Orange Is the New Black) and Juan Pablo Raba (Narcos, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) are haunted by an evil spirit in The Whistler. A character-driven blend of folk horror, supernatural suspense, and cultural resonance, the film opens in select theaters on April 17 via Vertical. I don’t watch as many … Continue reading The Whistler (2026) Review
First of all, my apologies go out to the Alien franchise. Back when I did a franchise ranking of that series, I lambasted the series as being a particularly bad one. I noted that it had two good movies and then a bunch of trash in their wake that I was reduced to trying to figure out an order for. Brother, I had no idea … Continue reading Ranking The Franchise: Scream
Every year, the same thing happens to me. I seek to watch a ton of new movies, but after the first couple of months of the year, I worry I’m way off the pace I need to be on. There are just aren’t a lot of worthwhile flicks released between January and March. So I end up having only seen a few movies those first … Continue reading They Will Kill You Review
I get a little frustrated by movies that seemingly don’t know when to end. I was notoriously not a big fan of Nicholas Cage’s acclaimed movie Pig because, to me, it felt like a sixty minute storyline poorly stretched out to a runtime of ninety minutes. In the interest of making it feature length, they sacrificed good pacing and storytelling, and it all felt very … Continue reading Mr. Sandman (2024) Review
Here is some funny/concerning/fitting Inside Baseball for our readers: when writing these reviews, I actually write somewhat backwards. I do the Ups And Downs first, then the Overall, and then I come up here to do my preamble and short synopsis. Well today, after finishing the U&D and Overall, I checked the word count just to see where we were, and it was 666. That … Continue reading Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come Review
MPX has announced the official US digital release of Rusabh Patel’s I Know Exactly How You Die, an indie horror where deadlines aren’t a writer’s worst fear. Beginning April 7, audiences across the US will be able to rent or own I Know Exactly How You Die on Digital HD, including Prime Video, and Fandango at Home. The film will also be available on DVD. I’m … Continue reading I Know Exactly How You Die Review
We are reviewing a movie from the 1960’s today! You know how I feel about that. I had actually mentioned today’s film in that above linked article. It has been a long time coming for my finally getting around to Peeping Tom, but here we are. Peeping Tom, I had been told, is one of those movies that gets referenced a lot when people are … Continue reading Peeping Tom Review
I had a choice to make recently between watching the 1958 The Blob or the 1988 remake thereof. Obviously I ended up going with the original. I’m not nearly as anti-remake as a lot of folks are; I recognize that across Hollywood’s history, there have been several great remade movies. And some have even surpassed the originals! But for this instance, I was following my … Continue reading The Blob (1958) Review
Honey Bunch is a relatively new outing featured on Shudder that I had kept passing over for several days due to reasons I will get into in the Ups and Downs. It just kind of sat there on the New Releases screen if I scrolled enough to the right on the AMC+ home page. And I’d look at it, and I’d hem and haw, and … Continue reading Honey Bunch Review
I recently had the good fortune to be invited to New York Comic Con as press, so I packed up and headed to New York (actually New Jersey because riding the ferry rules) for a long weekend away. I met up with the incomparable Joey DiCarlo and Aubrey Litchfield from So Wizard Podcast, we set about interviewing as many amazing talents as we could for their … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2025: The Video Interview Collection!
Filmhub has announced the official US digital release of Jeremy Schuetze’s found footage feature Anacoreta. Following a festival run and debut in Canada, Anacoreta debuts on digital platforms February 24 in the US. Anacoreta screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, where it won Best Horror, and the Manchester Film Festival, where the team took home Best International Feature. Found Footage Movies remain a pretty … Continue reading Anacoreta Review
It’s Friday The 13th! Didn’t we just have one of these? I want to do an article ranking the best (read: my favorite) horror franchises, but as it is, it would be so hard to do. We’ll see if that’s where we end up going. The problem, you see, is that there are several horror franchises where I have only seen some of the movies. … Continue reading Thirteen The Fridayth: Best Horror Franchises
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