Reviews
The Art of Pulp Horror is a Comprehensive History [Book Review]
The Art of Pulp Horror is a beautiful book, collecting the art of horror and contextualizing it with a series of essays. It’s also an important book, demonstrating that as editor extraordinaire...
Spontaneous Will Totally Wreck Your Head [Review]
Spontaneous has notions of being this year’s Happy Death Day, with its caustic sense of humor and anti-heroine lead, but lands somewhere closer to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl only with consi...
12 Hour Shift is a Twisted, Anarchic, Feminist AF Delight [Review]
12 Hour Shift is the sophomore feature from one Brea Grant, who horror fans will be intimately familiar with as an actor in the likes of Dexter, Beyond the Gates, After Midnight, the recent Lucky, whi...
Me and Me is Pretty, Strange, and Enjoyably Offbeat [Charlotte Film Festival Review]
South Korean flick Me and Me is a tough movie to categorize. IMDb describes it as both a mystery and a drama but, in reality, Jin-young Jung’s film has elements of body swap comedy, paranormal ...
The Subject is an Ambitious, Flawed Jason Biggs Vehicle [Charlotte Film Festival Review]
The Subject marks the first big, serious role American Pie star Jason Biggs (“Don’t you recognize me? I’m the pie-f****r!”) has taken on in quite some time. The comedic act...
Bleed With Me Is A Chilling Look At Toxic Female Friendships [Charlotte Film Festival Review]
Rowan (Lee Marshall), the protagonist of Amelia Moses’ Bleed With Me, is clearly far too used to apologizing. Despite being the invited guest of her good friend Emily (Lauren Beatty) and Emily&#...
Scare Me is a Shudder Shut-in Dramedy-Thriller with Dark Turns [Review]
If you’re a fan of Aya Cash’s turn as a dark character on You’re The Worst, that’s a big plus in Scare Me. She stars as Fanny, a successful horror novelist holed up with a ...
Graveyards of Honor Collects the Original and Remake [Blu-Ray Review]
“He always wanted to be a Yakuza, ever since he was a little boy” an unidentified interviewee says as a montage of black and white photos of future Yakuza Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari)...
The Horror Crowd is a Rushed Mess [Charlotte Film Fest Review]
The Horror Crowd is director Ruben Pla’s, himself a prolific actor who’s appeared in the likes of XX, Insidious, and Big Ass Spider, attempt at explaining why the titular group, all frie...