Reviews
Black Site Has No Reason To Exist [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Black Site is described on IMDb as “80’s inspired John Carpenteresque Action (sic),” in a paragraph confidently attributed to its writer-director, Tom Paton. Considering The Void is ...
Death Kiss does Chuck Bronson proud [Review]
Death Kiss, the latest from Oakland-based auteur Rene Perez — the same guy who gave us The Burning Dead, Prey For Death and no less than three Playing with Dolls features to date — is a ...
Crystal Eyes Is A Lurid, Garish, Giallo [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Crystal Eyes is a giallo movie set in Buenos Aires with dialogue entirely in Spanish, as befits that part of the world. It immediately goes against everything we know about giallo movies, and yet the ...
Wolfman’s Got Nards Rules So Hard [Frightfest 2018 Review]
How would you define a cult movie? Is it something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which found legions of fans thanks to years of playing as a midnight movie in the grungiest theatre in NYC? Or ma...
Climax is a Cinematic Headache [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Climax sees the return of cinema’s greatest self-proclaimed enfant terrible, Gaspar Noé, following the oddly un-sexy 3D extravaganza that was 2015’s Love. It’s his best reviewed...
Exorcist II Pales in Comparison to its Predecessor [Blu-ray Review]
Exorcist II: The Heretic sees The Catholic Church sending Father Lamont on a mission to find out exactly what happened to Father Merrin and uncover the details surrounding his untimely demise. Regan h...
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is a Fun and Gory Redux [4K Blu-Ray Review]
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich follows recently-divorced Edgar (Thomas Lennon) as he, his boss/friend Markowitz (Nelson Franklin), and Edgar’s new girlfriend Ashley (Jenny Pellicer) make...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a Good Adaptation of a Great Book [Review]
I’ve heard two fundamental schools of thought about what a cover song should do. In one, a song is radically transformed. Think of the way Johnny Cash transformed Nine-Inch Nails’s ...
Hunt for the Skinwalker Will Make You Question Reality [Review]
There exists a place that no rational person would willingly go to. Unidentified flying objects, cattle mutilations and long extinct animals all claim the Skinwalker Ranch as home. The ranch is a veri...