Reviews
Knives and Skin Riffs on, Improves Twin Peaks [Review]
Jennifer Reeder’s Knives and Skin has frequently been compared to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. It’s a good comparison. Both focus on the waves of grief that ripple out through a smal...
Daniel isn’t Real is Visually Pleasing Brain Candy [Review]
“And…the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.” -Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are What do you get when you let a very, ve...
Automation Rises Above Its Low-Budget Limitations with Tons of Heart [Review]
In the grand tradition of men-in-suit movies such as its most obvious reference point, Robocop, Automation‘s robot antagonist, Auto, is quite blatantly an actor in a costume. That the costume it...
Five Horror Films from 1974 That Helped Define the Genre
The 1970’s witnessed a massive change in the landscape of horror cinema. This was horror for a post-Vietnam world. The atomic age horrors were gone. Ancient ruined castles and Gothic chillers si...
Automation Brings Class Warfare and Artificial Intelligence Under The Same Roof [Review]
Automation follows Auto (played by Jeff J. Knight, In Defense Of ) a workplace robot employed by a company who wants to maximize their profits by minimizing the cost of human labor. Auto is a fri...
Severance is a Brilliant Horror Comedy [Retrospective]
Severance finds the employees of an international arms manufacturer setting off on a teambuilding retreat. When a fallen tree blocks the path to their destination, the workers are forced to take ...
Is Black Christmas (2006) Really That Bad? Yes. Yes it is.
In 2006’s Black Christmas, circumstance leaves a group of sorority sisters still in their house in the days leading up to Christmas. Simultaneously, Billy Lenz, the spree killer that l...
Lisa [Rabid Dog’s House]
The Rabid Dog’s House is a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where contributor Justin Steele uncovers hidden gems, lost classics, and overlooked indie offerings. Flying solo or with the o...
The Driver Crashes and Burns [DVD Review]
The Driver is a Mark Dacascos vehicle (pun intended) in which he plays an unnamed hitman trying to keep his daughter Bree (Mark’s real life daughter Noelani Dacascos) alive during the zombie ap...