I am a big fan of the hard rock group AC/DC. This is despite the fact that they’ve been releasing what is essentially the same album—with largely interchangeable pounding hard rock riffs—for something like 50…

I’ll cut to the chase for the short attention span crowd: “The Other” is worth a watch despite a few flaws. The setup: A young white couple take in a Black foster daughter who’s around…

The setup here is pretty straightforward: a large house suddenly appears in a rural section of a northeaster US town. Trapped in the house is a group of people, all of whom have secrets the…

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…

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,…