I truly believe that no piece of media depicts the abject horror of cosmicism more than Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock. Cosmicism is...
The act of cutting and stitching can grant new life to a long dead prospect, or it can unleash a monster. Dr. Frankenstein understood the stakes,...
David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street has only committed one crime: premiering this late into the summer movie slate. Hot off the heels of...
David Lynch’s sixth film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, is so wonderfully inflexible. Though current fans certainly have a better appreciation for what it’s aiming...
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a piece of visual candy that everyone needs to get a taste of. Fitting, considering candy...
If film school wasn’t scary enough because of incel film-bros and awful thesis projects, a serial killer is now hunting down film students! As a former...
Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man is the curled finger on the monkey’s paw that someone wished for “more original horror” with. It isn’t a reboot of...
At an 80-minute runtime barring credits, Sion Sono’s Tag is a Japanese splatter film that is bursting at the seams. Which, if you’re familiar with the...
Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw came out in 1974. Halloween came out in 1978. One year after the latter, another pre-1980s slasher came out…this one even...
I’ve covered hundreds of festivals since starting my writing career. Out of all of the festivals I cover, Tokyo Horror Film Festival remains supreme. There is...