Anyone who lives in northern California is aware of the Winchester Mystery House, the house once owned by Sarah Winchester, the heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The house, now a popular tourist attraction, has cultivated an air of…
Sundance 2018 Review: Hereditary
Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s an unrelenting, dread-inducing portrait of a family descending…
Insidious: The Last Key Review – Latest installment fails to conjure scares
Despite being received with lukewarm reviews, 2011’s Insidious put James Wan on the map. Instead of being known for his torture porn thriller, Saw, Insidious proved that Wan could take the haunted house genre and give it his own unique…
Ranking the films of master director Guillermo Del Toro
Many words have been tossed around to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s work such as “creepy” or “bizarre”, but we prefer “visionary.” He’s established himself as a master of horror just by doing what he loves best: dabbling in the macabre.…
Movie Review: Jigsaw
The Saw franchise is an interesting case study. What initially started as a smart psychological thriller spawned into one of the most successful horror titles of all time, producing eight sequels and revamping the “torture porn” genre as we know…
Movie Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
I desperately want to love Yorgos Lanthimos’ films. His caustic, often disturbing style shows shades of Stanley Kubrick a la A Clockwork Orange and the best moments of both The Lobster and The Killing of A Sacred Deer are flat…