★★★ out of ★★★★★
Seann William Scott’s first leading role in a horror movie puts family first.
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Joseph’s Review: Greener Grass
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A pastel-colored, surreal satire on middle class American culture, this dark comedy has the feeling of […]
Robert’s Review: Incredible Violence (2018)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
An art house slasher with more symbolism than story.
Mike’s Review: Martin (1978)
★★★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★★ Vampires have been around for a long time (read: possibly forever?) and their story has been told in a weirdly limitless number of ways. Sexy vampires. Gory vampires. Child vampires. Deaf vampires. Suffice it to say, the votes are in and humanity LOVES its vampires!
Mike’s Review: Sisters (1972)
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Siamese Twins at Birth: What the Devil hath joined together let no man cut asunder.
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 […]
Robert’s Review: Momo: The Missouri Monster (2019)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Grindhouse meets documentary in the latest from Small Town Monsters.
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 Review: Killer Sofa (2019)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Every now and again, you run into a title that you just need to check out because it seems so absurd. Remarkably, it’s better than I expected (low threshold there) but it also isn’t as gonzo as I expected it to be. Done with heart on a low budget, it’s entertaining, warts and all.
Mike’s Review: Wolf Creek (2005)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
The joy of youth. The post-college road trip. Finding your way in vast spaces. Unconstrained, unconfined, uncontrolled. The world is your oyster, until it isn’t.
Robert’s Review: Ens Rationis (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Like sands through an hourglass, these are the days of our lives.
Mike and Eric’s Review of It: Chapter Two (2019)
Mike’s Review: ★★★ out of ★★★★★
Eric’s Review: ★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
The big horror movie that everyone has been waiting for has landed. It: Chapter Two delivers a good looking, well-acted and often scary film that is also overly long, and has a mechanical narrative style, but is, in the end, an enjoyable outing.
Mike’s Review: House on Sorority Row (1983)
★★.5 out of ★★★★★ College isn’t for everyone. There’s peer pressure, there’s social acclimatization, there’s the freshman 15, there’s the daily grind of keeping one’s grades in check to maintain that almighty scholarship, and then there’s the relationships. The social bond that’s created can be a lasting and spiritually satisfying affinity, but the bond can go so deep that it’ll eventually turn collegiate relations sour and crazy.
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.
Robert’s Review: BBC Radio’s “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (2018)
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Hands down one of the best adaptations of an H.P. Lovecraft story… and it’s a radio show!
Eric’s Review: Ready or Not (2019)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Samara Weaving has a powerful star-making turn in this riotously enjoyable bloodbath of a film. Ready or Not is full of memorable characters, deft humor, and an intense nail-chewing plot.
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.
Robert’s Popcorn Frights Review: The Sonata (2018)
★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A beautifully shot Lovecraftian tale of classical music and madness.
Mike’s Review: The Boar (2017)
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The planet is running out of animals. Literally and figuratively. Hollyweird has given us sharks (Jaws 1-4), rabbits (Night of the Lepus), bears (Grizzy), fish (Piranha), and man’s best friend (Cujo). There’s even been birds, wolves, snakes, rats, and gators, and whatever the hell a sharktopus is supposed to be. One of the things that Hollyweird hasn’t gotten its money-grubbing paws on is the pig, javelina, or boar – until now.
Robert’s Popcorn Frights Review: Infeccion (2019)
★★★ out of ★★★★★
The first zombie movie filmed in Venezuela hits the screen with some biting social commentary.
Mike’s Review: Green Inferno (2013)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Are you looking for that something extra to jolt you out of life’s day-to-day doldrums? That little something to shock your system in to a complete state of hysteria? Something so odious and vile that your mind won’t know how to process the capital “G” grisly-gore? Your pals at the Scariest Things Podcast have found just the thing. Enter…Green Inferno.
Eric’s Popcorn Frights Review: Villains (2019)
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Bumbling burglars and crazy retro-suburbanites collide in the horror-adjacent home invasion comedy Villains, featuring a couple of familiar genre faces.
Robert’s Popcorn Frights Review: Itsy Bitsy (2019)
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
It’s time to pick on the arachnophobes again.
Eric’s Review: Trench 11 (2017)
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Trench warfare in World War I was an ugly scene. It just got uglier in the worm-infested zombie-ish horror flick Trench 11.
Eric’s Fantasia 2019 Review: Sator (2019)
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Still Life, with horror and dread. Sator is both an artistic triumph but also a difficult movie to get into. The film is elegant, quiet, and cold to the point of aloofness, but there is some very potent material if you are patient.