★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
While it’s more comedy than horror, this splattery witch-based tale is an entertaining cat & mouse chase around Salem, Massachusetts.
Archive for ‘Festivals’
Movie News: Popcorn Frights Festival Streaming Catalog
Popcorn Frights, one of our favorite film festivals, is going to try and help you get over being scared about corona virus, and making scared about something else! They are providing links to how to find their festival movies past, for your enjoyment.
Joseph’s Review: Butt Boy (Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow Film Festival)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ If you are in the mood for a mind-blowing cinematic experience, look no further than the […]
Joseph’s Reviews (Women in Horror Film Festival): Cleanse, The Last Vacation, In Her Shoes
Atlanta’s Women in Horror Film Festival offered a fine selection of shorts, including these tales of psychic baggage, inevitable doom, […]
MidWest WeirdFest Lineup Boasts Ghosts, Monsters, UFOs, and More
The cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird known as MidWest WeirdFest returns to the […]
Joseph’s Reviews (Horror-on-Sea Film Festival): Big Man, Bleed, Idle Hands, The Last Reel, This Mourning
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival offered up a treasure trove of incredible fright-fare shorts. In this second installment of short-film reviews from […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Eric’s FilmQuest Review: Finale (2019)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
This savage and grisly new Danish production features a carefully threaded story line that follows two young women, stuck working at a lonely rural gas station, who are subjected to what at first appears to be creepy pranking turns into something wholly sinister. This movie will reward hardened horror fans. Not for the faint of heart!
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Eric’s FilmQuest Review: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
What happens if your imaginary friend is full of homicidal suggestions? Daniel Isn’t Real is a trippy tale of psychological breakdown and showcases two actors from proud Hollywood family legacies giving great performances
Liz’s FilmQuest Review: Volition (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A twisty little thriller with an exceptional cast, Volition isn’t reinventing the wheel but it’s definitely rolling right along.
Robert’s FilmQuest Review: The Black String (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
More witches! Or are they? At least we can watch Agent Cody Banks go slowly insane.
Scariest Interview Series: The Sonata #3 – Actor Freya Tingley
The final installment of our first Scariest Interview Series. We talk to Freya Tingley about preparing for the role of Rose Fisher and what comes next!
Scariest Interview Series: The Sonata #2 – Producer Laurent Fumeron
In part two of our interview series focussed on The Sonata we hear from the film’s stalwart producer!
Scariest Interview Series: The Sonata #1 – Director Andrew Desmond
The writer/director of the brilliant Gothic horror film, The Sonata (2019), gives us some of his valuable time.
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.
Robert’s Popcorn Frights Review: The Sonata (2018)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A beautifully shot Lovecraftian tale of classical music and madness.