Description from Netflix: Backpackers Rutger and Katarina escape the city for an adventurous vacation in the Australian outback…but their dream trip turns into a nightmare when they run into a bloodthirsty serial killer with a penchant for sadistic games. My thoughts: I love slasher movies. It’s a well-known fact about me. And yet I didn’t […]
I was a little late in watching this but I’m really happy that I finally gave it a chance. This may be a strange way to start this, but of all the Horror shows currently on TV this one has my favorite costuming. There’s something about the Victorian feel and setting that I’ve always been […]
Four teens out on the town celebrating a birthday run into the wrong people. Sissy (Ali Faulkner), her brother Mikey (Phillip Wolf) their friend Kenny (Matt Hensarling) and random, token slut Barbie (Tory Tompkins) have a chance encounter at a convenience store that sets off a violent chain of events. In a seedy part of […]
Before we get to the fun stuff, let’s talk a little history. A penny dreadful was a 19th century British pulp magazine, filled with serial fiction, often of the violent crime or adventure variety. A handful of recognizable characters originated in penny dreadfuls, the most famous being Sweeny Todd. (It’s also worth noting that “Varney […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBwsUD7jYCI Release date: May 16, 2014 Director: Gareth Edwards (Monsters) This is the first trailer I saw, and it’s still my favorite one. The skydiving scene that opens is amazing. The silence as they drop, and the destruction they see as they break through the clouds. The flashes of anguished faces (Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth […]
Indie filmmaker Peter Dukes has built himeslf quite a treasure trove of short films. As a horror fan, I chose to watch The Beast first. The Beast is an awarad winning horror short that is a throwback to old fashioned horror. Three men go into the woods on the night of a full moon. One […]
So, as any pop culture aficionado knows, this Monday was the 30th anniversary of the date of the detention in The Breakfast Club. Given the fact that that film is my favorite movie of all time, I am always more than willing to pay homage to it. With that thought in mind, I decided to […]
From writer/director Mike Flanagan (Absentia) comes a mind bending supernatural horror film. The story, essentially, boils down to a woman who is hell bent on proving that her father is not guilty of the murder of his wife; it was the antique mirror hanging in his office. Yup, known as the Lasser Glass, it is […]
Award winning Ottawa, Ontario filmmakers, Kristian Lariviere & Jennifer Allanson, have launched a fundraising campaign for their original, women centric feature film debut, HENS NIGHT. HENS NIGHT is a female powered horror comedy centered around a bachelorette party gone wrong. “People always think horror films are a male driven genre, but the reality is that […]
Pale Hunter, a horror novella from C.J. Sellers is an unsuspecting gem of a story. What presents itself as a historically set piece of horror fiction is really so much more. Everything begins innocently enough in 1666 with Bernard and Clem, traders traveling New France, who come across two runaway boys. It is this […]