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Saw X Sucks [Review]
The Saw franchise has been running for almost 20 years, but what began as a lean, mean, unabashed Se7en rip-off has morphed into the kind of ugly, monotonous gore-fest that people who believe Art the ...
Quicksand is a Ruthlessly Efficient Single-Location Thriller [Review]
When we were kids, quicksand seemed like an actual problem we’d have to contend with as adults and, in a way, it’s kind of disappointing that it isn’t. The quicksand featured in Quicksand, a slick, hi...
10 Years Later, ‘Hatchet 3’ Remains One of the Most Entertaining Horror Threequels
For Hatchet 3, series creator Adam Green handed the directing reins over to his camera operator from the previous two movies, BJ McDonnell, while retaining the sole screenwriting credit. It was a smar...
‘Brooklyn 45’ is Strongest in Its Quietest Moments [Review]
Sometimes, all you need for a film to work is to put a group of great actors in a room together and let them do their thing. Such is the case with Brooklyn 45, the latest feature from writer-director ...
Killer Kites is So Much Better Than It Has Any Right to Be [Review]
With a title like Killer Kites, you know exactly what you’re in for–especially if you’ve seen the delightfully unhinged trailer. This is the kind of wacky, no-holds-barred, zero-budget horror movie th...
Sick of Myself is a Scathing Portrait of Millennial Malaise [Review]
Sick of Myself, aka Sik Pike, the sophomore effort from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, takes a sledgehammer to the so-called attention economy. Rather than dealing with an obsessively on...
Nine Horror Franchises Driven by Outstanding Female Villains
Horror movie villains are traditionally male. While there are slashers where the killer turns out to be female at the end, they’re not entirely common. Even more uncommon, though, is to see female ant...
‘Last Shift’ Reboot ‘Malum’ is a Helluva Ride [Review]
A filmmaker deciding to reboot their own movie less than a decade after it originally came out is an unorthodox idea, to say the very least. But Anthony DiBlasi has never played by the rules, with his...
Eight Sequels That Did Nothing to Further the Narrative of the Franchise
For the most part, sequels are made because a film made money and a studio wants to keep it going. It would be ridiculous not to admit that’s usually how it starts. But there are still a lot of great ...
