Reviews
In The Trap Stumbles Between Psychological And Supernatural Horror [Review]
In The Trap is the first English language feature from director Alessio Liguori (Report 51). Opening with an extended flashback sequence, a title card indicates this particular rainy night is in the s...
Sea Fever Offers Unexpected Prescience and an Opening for Ethical Debate [Review]
We’re in a moment where many properties seem prescient in ways not initially intended. Sea Fever’s personal and ethical dilemmas would have been relevant at any time, but they resonate e...
Shudder’s Cursed Films Deftly Explores Bewitched Cinema [Review]
Cursed Films is a series that recently premiered its debut episode on Shudder. The show highlights the hexed histories of some horror classics. The horror genre manifests occult-oriented oddities by i...
The Other Lamb is a Righteous Takedown of Christian Cults [Review]
My parents sent me to a Catholic all boys high school to “avoid distractions.” What “distractions” means, if you haven’t been indoctrinated into the bizarre sexist c...
Creep is Character Driven and Suspenseful [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to ti...
Glenn Danzig’s Verotika is Truly, Unforgivably Terrible [Review]
Verotika is un film de Danzig so, even without knowing anything else about it, it’s an intriguing prospect. The title, in case you’re a bit slow, is a combination of the words “vi...
Body Count is Back With New Album Carnivore [Review]
Coming from the violent and gang-filled streets of south-central Los Angeles, Ice-T fronted heavy metal band Body Count is back with a vengeance. Their newest album Carnivore was recently released and...
Come to Daddy is Simultaneously Violent and Heartfelt [Blu-ray Review]
When I sat down to watch Come to Daddy, I almost immediately gathered that it was going to be tonally diverse. It opens with a quote from Shakespeare, followed immediately by a quote from Be...
The Grudge (2020) is a Chore to Sit Through [Blu-ray Review]
I tried to avoid reviews of The Grudge (2020) going in. I’d seen quite a few negative social media reactions and heard from a few friends and fellow critics that it wasn’t good. ...