2020 horror
Dave Franco’s The Rental is An Impressive Debut [Review]
The Rental is the second ominous beach house themed horror movie in as many weeks and, although it’s slighter fare than Shudder’s subversive shocker The Beach House, Dave Franco’s di...
Dreamland Suffocates Under Its Delusions of Grandeur [Review]
Dreamland is the latest offering from beloved Canadian director Bruce McDonald, of fan favorite Pontypool and, more recently, the delightfully festive yet divisive Hellions, fame. The movie’s s...
You Die is the Killer App Movie That Countdown Should’ve Been [Review]
You Die, an agreeable Italian genre offering with the wholly unnecessary subtitle, “Get the app, then die,” takes the premise that last year’s completely rubbish Countdown squande...
We Summon the Darkness is Light, Throwaway Fun [Review]
Last year’s brilliant Satanic Panic pitted a pizza delivery girl against a group of rich Satanists in suburbia. We Summon the Darkness posits that it’s actually the young woman whoȁ...
Glenn Danzig’s Verotika is Truly, Unforgivably Terrible [Review]
Verotika is un film de Danzig so, even without knowing anything else about it, it’s an intriguing prospect. The title, in case you’re a bit slow, is a combination of the words “vi...
The Most Shocking Thing about The Hunt is How Boring It Is [Review]
The Hunt is finally here. The film we never thought we’d get to see because of all of those pesky mass shootings is being released upon the masses right in the middle of a global pandemic. And, ...
Extra Ordinary is the Irish What We Do in the Shadows [Review]
Forgive the clickbait-y title but there will be those who see the poster or trailer for Extra Ordinary and think it’s not up their alley because it looks like a fussy indie drama when, really, t...
Swallow is an Impressively Odd Tale of a Troubled Woman [Review]
With a title like Swallow, you hardly expect subtlety. And yet the debut feature from writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis is brimming with stylish, low-key flourishes. The first image is the back of...
The Invisible Man is the First Great Horror Movie of 2020 [Review]
Universal’s fated Dark Universe began and ended with the baggy, listless, Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy, leading nobody to believe another creature from that pack, The Invisible Man, could prop ...