[Review] ‘Castlevania’ Could Be the Video Game Adaptation We’ve Been Waiting For When it comes to translating video game properties to other forms of media, there haven’t been too many success stories. To be fair, most video games don’t have the necessary plot to actually fill out an entire film, […]
Continue ReadingGame of Death [Review] Move over, Monopoly, because there’s a new game on the market and people are just dying to play it. Cheesy, I know, but sometimes, cheesy is good. When over-the-top cheesiness and gore make a film entertaining, then you know you’re watching “Game of Death” which made […]
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The Dark Tapes [Requiem FearFest Review] The last film I viewed at the first edition of Montreal’s Requiem FearFest was a horror anthology of found footage films, interlocking storywise, entitled “The Dark Tapes,” written by and co-directed by Michael McQuown, who had written “The Perfect Man” in the past, and […]
Continue ReadingTrue Love Ways [Review] I absolutely love it when a film comes along and it just delivers swerve after swerve. You just don’t know what to expect yet, and Mathieu Seiler has delivered with the deeply atmospheric and stylish revenge thriller True Love Ways. The film begins innocently enough with the […]
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The Perfect Husband [Review] Going into Lucas Pavetto’s The Perfect Husband, I initially thought it was just another run-of-the-mill horror flick in a secluded cabin, but there is much more than meets the eye with this one. It has several layers that slowly begin to peel away until you get to […]
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Jeruzalem (2015) Horror Movie Review “There are 3 gates to Hell: one in the desert; one in the ocean; and one in Jerusalem.” “Jeruzalem” is the latest found footage flick from Yoav & Doron Paz, from Israel, making its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Prior to two […]
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Chopping Block [Review] Chopping Block is wholly original in all that it wishes to accomplish. Prior to screening the film, director Joshua Hull commented that his film is a comedy, first and foremost, and the horror is secondary. This thematic asymmetry is made clear with the opening flashback sequence. […]
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Tales of Poe [Review] Edgar Allan Poe is most definitely no stranger around these parts. We’ve read his stories/poems, we’ve dissected them to great detail and we have seen a slew of films inspired by his works. His legacy continues to this very day and still people are inspired by his […]
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A Grim Becoming [Review] A Grim Becoming, follows Raphael (Brandyn T. Williams), a young executive who is pretty much on the verge of losing the biggest deal of his life within his architectural job, and to make matters worse, his Nephew dies in an unfortunate Halloween accident. While all this is […]
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Resolution Horror Review Ambiguity abounds in Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead’s Resolution. This low-budget drama horror leaves you with questions you may never have an answer to. I belong to the camp that believes this to be a good thing. This article may dive into the spoiler zone, but how […]
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