★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A pastel-colored, surreal satire on middle class American culture, this dark comedy has the feeling of […]
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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 […]
Joseph’s Popcorn Frights Review: Queen of Spades: The Looking Glass
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Though it doesn’t bring much new to the “teens in peril because they played a ghost-summoning game” subgenre, Queen of Spades: The Looking Glass offers enough visual flair and cultural differences to make it worth seeking out.
Joseph’s Fantasia Review: Homewrecker
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ With splendid performances from its two stars and crackerjack direction, Homewrecker combines some of the darkest […]
Joseph’s Review: Luz
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ This artistic, sometimes surreal approach to a movie about demonic possession may alienate some viewers with […]
Joseph’s Cinepocalypse Review: The Mute
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Two Christian knights find themselves at odds against each other when they try to convert pagans […]
Joseph’s Review: The 16th Episode (2019)
★★★ out of ★★★★★ This possession shocker is as all over the map as its three globetrotting vlogger protagonists, which […]
Joseph’s Cinepocalypse Reviews: “Kindred Spirits” and “The Last to See Them”
Kindred Spirits ★★★ out of ★★★★★ This thriller about an unhinged woman who craves revisiting adolescence feels watered down compared […]
Joseph’s Cinepocalypse Reviews: “The Swerve” and “Achoura”
The Swerve ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A woman battles depression, rodents, guilt, and more in this superbly acted slow burner […]
Joseph’s Overlook Film Festival Reviews: “Dachra” and “Porno”
Dachra ★★ out of ★★★★★ Local-color sinisterness can’t overcome the exasperating squabbling of the three main protagonists in this Tunisian […]
Joseph’s Overlook Film Festival Review: “Knives and Skin”
★★★ out of ★★★★★ Style edges out substance in this Lynchian high school noir about a missing girl’s impact on […]
Joseph’s Review: Winterskin (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
With shades of Stephen King’s Misery and hideous monsters added to the mix, this U.K. scare fare flick delivers the snowbound goods.
Joseph’s Review: Our Evil (2017)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ A sadistic murderer, a man haunted by the dead, and a young woman with a dark […]
Windy City Horrorama Review: “Blood Paradise” Finds Struggling Author Fending Off a Psychotic Farming Family
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Vintage Eurohorror and backwoods psycho horror elements are both at play in this tale of a high-society author who goes to rural Sweden to get her creative juices flowing again.
Joseph’s Review: The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
★★ out of ★★★★★ This shocker tries to empower Sharon Tate and the other victims of the Manson murders, but […]
Joseph’s Review: Assassinaut (2019; Boston Underground Film Festival)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Alien invasion, slasher elements, creature feature fun — this dazzling low-budget winner has it all, with first-rate characterization and solid performances, to boot!
Directed by Drew Bolduc