Horror

Interesting. My last review (Nightsiren) was about a woman returning to her remote village where the citizens treat her with disdain. Similarly, Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You also features a woman living in a town where the inhabitants don’t seem to care for her presence. At all. And like Nightsiren, the reasons are […]

Where does the horror lie in Tereza Nvotová’s Nightsiren? Is it in the supposed curse that has followed Šarlota (Natalia Germani) from her childhood to the present day? Or is it embodied in the inhabitants of her secluded town to which she’s returned after a twenty-year absence? Is it the witch rumored to live in […]

The posters for The Blackening might make this horror-comedy look like a horror spoof along the lines of the Scary Movie series or something like Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th… and you’d be very, very wrong if you think that. Quite possibly one of the funniest of its kind […]

What are movies at their very basic but images projected on a screen with accompanying sound? It’s just light reflected into our eyes. But it takes a gifted filmmaker to use every inch of that canvas and every decibel afforded to them, and to use it well. Ari Aster is one such filmmaker, whose stories, […]

To put it bluntly, Renfield isn’t a game-changer, nor is it earth-shattering, but it’s fun enough to warrant a quick stop at your local movie theater. It’s a setup we’ve seen in countless comedies and action films before, where one member of a toxic relationship tries their best to get out of it. But to […]

“You’re not Woodsboro,” someone says to an outsider in Scream VI at a pivotal moment. Which, of course, would mean something had not only half of the six Scream films taken place in the fictional town of Woodsboro, where all the mayhem started twenty-seven years ago. Especially since one of the main characters in all […]