My recent viewing of “The Thirteenth Floor” was actually a rewatch for me; I first saw it when it came out back in 1999. The film, about a virtual reality populated by sentient AI (that’s…
How did people digest movies like “Persona” before the Internet? Before the time when you could open up Google, type, “What the hell did I just watch?“ and get some answers. I suppose they had…
Mitch Hedberg is probably my favorite comedian. He’s dead now (he died young from a drug overdose combined with a pre-existing heart condition) but had an active career in the 90s to the 2000s. He…
This is a good one. I came to watch “Watcher” by way of another movie. I happened across the serial killer short “Slut” on youtube and was impressed with its tense riff on the Red…
More comedy than horror, Three Fingered Willy draws inspiration from classic ’80s campground slashers—Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, etc.—while adding its own comic twists.If you like your horror bloody, you’ll be pleased that amid the…
Have you ever psychoanalyzed an alien? That’s the premise behind the Russian film “Sputnik” which was released in 2020. How does this situation come about? Two Russian cosmonauts are floating in space in the 1980s…
Early on in my viewing of “Hell of a Summer” I took a note that read: This is as if Woody Allen made a slasher. As the film went on, I realized that summation wasn’t…
Many years back, with films like “Hostel” and the “Saw” series, we had the advent of what was called torture porn. This basically involved scenes of people being strapped down and gruesomely mutilated. With 2017’s…
If you’ve been following the world of horror entertainment, you’re aware there’s been a rise of films that take intellectual property recently deposited into the public domain as their source material. There was, for instance,…
This one was discussed a while back and the premise intrigued me. A man returns from a vacation in isolation to discover his home town is now filled with hanging bodies. I don’t want to…
This was an interesting one. I’ve seen comments from people online who were deeply unsettled by it, calling it “nightmare inducing.” My reaction was more like, “huh…” Is that because these people are sensitive crybabies…
Here’s an interesting biographical detail about me: as a kid, I lived in Iran for around six months. This was in the seventies, right before the Shah fell in the cultural revolution there. As such,…
This is a great, gothic creepy read. I would call it horror-lite, more in line with a Daphne du Maurier or Riley Sager story. Our protagonist, Cassie, arrives at an estate where her friend Emily…
This is a strange little horror film from 1935. I was first drawn to it because of a famous still in which Peter Lorre looks like some kind of techno-mutant out of a Mad Max…