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Joseph’s Review: Swallow (Final Girls Berlin Film Fest)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ A Stepford Wife in training begins swallowing dangerous objects — and that’s only the start of […]
MidWest WeirdFest First Wave Announcement Promises Monsters, Mayhem, and Mirth
Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest has announced its first seven feature films, and what a promising group it is! MidWest WeirdFest— a […]
Joseph’s Reviews (Horror-on-Sea Film Festival): Horror Shorts — Noctámbulos (Night Owls), No Strings, One Touch, Tolerance
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival offered up a treasure trove of incredible horror shorts. Here are reviews about four of them, featuring […]
Joseph’s Reviews (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest): Horror Shorts — Patina, Playtime’s Over, and Zombie Debt
An intimidating humanoid robot, a preteen horror movie fan bent on terrorizing her babysitter, and a woman pursued by a debt collector during a zombie apocalypse were the subjects of three fantastic short films that recently screened at Another Hole in the Head Film Fest in San Francisco.
Joseph’s Review: The Wave (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ The Wave bends time and film genres, and it is bound to bend viewers’ minds, too, […]
Joseph’s Review: The Numbers (Horror-on-Sea Film Festival)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Fans of classic British horror anthologies should find plenty to admire in independent chiller The Numbers. […]
Joseph’s Review: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ This dark comic take skewers (pun intended) self-help gurus and followers alike as a murderer and […]
Joseph’s Top 10 Film Festival Horror Movies of 2019
For my The Scariest Things “best of 2019” list, I decided to do something a little different and focus on […]
Joseph’s Review: Black Circle (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ An esoteric recording from the 1970s finds two sisters pitted against the physical manifestations of their […]
Trailer Alert: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (2019)
Arrow Films will release the critically acclaimed jet-black British comedy feature film A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life in the United States and […]
Joseph’s Review: Rot (Another Hole in the Head Film Fest)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ An evil entity is loosed, bringing death and terror to a graduate student, her ex-boyfriend, and […]
Joseph’s Review: The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale (London Korean Film Festival 2019)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ The latest zombie movie offering from South Korea focuses on family squabbles and humor, aiming more […]
Joseph’s Review: Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (Buried Alive Film Festival 2019)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ An engaging look at lycanthrope cinema from its earliest days to recent years, Mark of the […]
Joseph’s Review: The Shed
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Two friends find themselves at odds when a vampire holes up on one of the boy’s […]
Joseph’s Review: Red Letter Day (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Red Letter Day’s uniquely Canadian spin on “mob rules” horror adds a helping of humor to […]
Trailer Alert: The Shed
Screening at this week’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, vampire shocker The Shed receives a wide release on November 15, when […]
Trailer Alert: The Dwelling
Beware the haunted bed! A frightening futon rears its springs this November in Black Fawn Films’ The Dwelling, on Digital and […]
First Clip Alert: Spiral
Canadian shocker Spiral will have its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival on October 22nd, following its celebrated […]
Joseph’s Review: Greener Grass
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A pastel-colored, surreal satire on middle class American culture, this dark comedy has the feeling of […]
London Korean Film Festival 2019 Offers Vintage and Current Chillers from the Land of the Morning Calm
The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) launches its 14th edition from November 1–14 before embarking on its annual tour November […]
Trailer Alert: Red Letter Day
After making waves on the film festival circuit, Canadian shocker Red Letter Day is about to receive a wide release, […]
Trailer Alert: Animal Among Us
Next month, Christian Oliver (House of Good & Evil) and Larisa Oleynik (10 Things I Hate About You) come face […]
Scariest Things News: Save the Dates for Buried Alive’s Return to Atlanta This November
The Buried Alive Film Festival is excited to announce its 14th year in Atlanta and wants you to save the […]
Trailer Alert: Sister Tempest
Writer/director Joe Badon’s surreal mind-blower The God Inside My Ear was one of my top 10 films, regardless of genre, […]
Joseph’s Fantastic Fest Review: Bloody Birthday
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Deadly brats create rope-choking, gun-toting carnage after their 10th birthdays in this amusing slice of 1980s […]
Joseph’s Review: Candy Corn
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Though boasting some intriguing concepts and visuals, this mash-up of a cinematic valentine to 1980s fright […]
Joseph’s Review: Echoes of Fear
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ There’s no question that the protagonist of this highly effective chiller is experiencing paranormal events, but […]
Joseph’s FilmQuest Review: Wild Boar (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Savage, bloodthirsty pigmen rule a “lost” land where a group of geocachers unwisely tread. Creature design […]
Joseph’s Review: Tone-Deaf
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ It’s mind-slipping conservative baby boomer versus self-absorbed liberal millennial in a fight to the death in […]