Dusty talks about the retro horror feel of Beyond The Gates
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Harry talks about what makes the original Alien film deeply unnerving and why the sequels have never been able to replicate it.
Dusty battles the flu and watches the much-hyped South Korean supernatural horror film, The Wailing.
This post contains a ton of spoilers about the Underworld series. You’ve been warned. You know what I love about the Underworld series? Pretty much everything. It starts off as a solid vampire/werewolf (or lycan, in the parlance of the movie) action-horror series, taking story cues from Romeo and Juliet and visual cues from The […]
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Movie Review: Everlasting
This movie was very, very good. Now that I’ve captured you with an enticing introduction, let me tell you why it was good: The cinematography and the directing is some of the best I’ve ever seen in an indie film. This is an absolutely beautiful film and the performances from leads Adam David and Valentina […]
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The Barn: Movie Review
Dusty reviews The Barn: a loving and bloody homage to 80s slashers.
Synopsis: A group of charlatan ghost hunters head to a haunted orphanage to record an episode of their show, S.P.I.T. (Spirit Paranormal Investigation Team) They allow a friend along to document their process, and end up talking about how they fake everything. I have no idea why they do this. Anyway, the orphanage turns out […]
Do you all remember Dinner? The short film about Dylan and her monster-kicking habits? Well…Dylan is back. Behold, the trailer for Breakfast! Like Dinner, it looks like a no-budget monster romp written and directed by Aleksandra Svetlichnaya (who plays Dylan). “It’s not a sequel,” it promises. “It’s the next course.” This appears to follow two […]
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The Conjuring 2
I know I’m a little late talking about this movie but I watched it last night as part of my Halloween Horror Night and boy do I have some stuff to say. This franchise is the perfect example of one step forward two steps back. For every single effective scene and beautiful cinematography trick, there’s […]
I don’t normally do music writeups but this is different. I was recently introduced to this band and they’ve successfully two burning questions inside of me. “What if horror was thematically more metal and what if metal could be more cinematic.” Ok. So those aren’t questions I had but in retrospect I should have probably […]