All Movie Reviews
After More than 30 Years, The Hitcher Still Captures the Essence of Terror on the Open Highway [Retrospective]
Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) is a young man working for a transport service, driving a vehicle cross country to its owner. When Jim makes the fateful decision to pick up a hitchhiker, who calls himse...
Clinton Road is Cameo-Laden but Not Worth the Detour
I don’t take joy in telling people the fruits of their labor are terrible. In fact, my threshold for cinematic suck is so high that I routinely hand out scores of 6s and 7s to movies the hoi polloi wo...
Perfect Experiments but Reaches Inconclusive Results [Review]
Stories set rules for themselves. Sometimes those rules come through dialogue, like in Gremlins. Other times stories use visual cues to tap into the knowledge that viewers bring in with them. If viewe...
A Vigilante Eschews Exploitation [Blu-Ray Review]
Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante opts for a decidedly stoic approach towards material often made salacious. Even when filmmakers seek to respectfully elevate the voices and experiences of the exploi...
Terror in the Skies Was Almost the Cryptid Documentary That Could Go Mainstream [Review]
Terror in the Skies is a Cryptid (an animal that may or may not exist, like Big foot, Chupacabra, etc) documentary that revolves around accounts of gigantic flying creatures in Illinois. The documenta...
Funny Games will Resensitize You to Violence [Blu-ray Review]
Funny Games is structured around a series of escalating, violent games. On the way to their lake home, Anna (Susanne Lothar) and Georg (Ulrich Mühe) try to guess the opera song the other plays on the ...
Blood on my Sofa: The Mansion is a Place for Gore and Gags
Welcome to Blood on my Sofa! Each month I will be providing you with a movie recommendation. It won’t be just any movie, but a film I watched during the previous month that really rocked my worl...
Us is Terrifying and Original [Blu-ray Review]
Us tells the story of The Wilson’s, an American family whose peaceful existence is shattered when they are introduced to identical shadow versions of themselves. The doppelgängers wreak havoc on...
In Head Count, The Thing Meets Candyman [Review]
At a sleepover in fifth grade, my friends and I goaded each other to go into the bathroom at midnight, close the door, and spin three times chanting, “Bloody Mary.” If the urban legend was true, Mary ...
