I genuinely enjoyed Terrifier (2016) because it played more like a pitch black, ultra-violent horror comedy than anything else. Much to my dismay the sequel ditches the brunt of the humor, rendering it mostly of a study in the ways Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) can dole out grisly violence. And if it had […]
Mark Mylod’s The Menu by my reckoning is at its core a story about a cult leader/madman who lures a bunch of people to his stronghold and kills not only them, but himself. That the cult leader happens to be a chef, Chef Slowik (Ralph Finnes) and revolves around 12 people being invited to his […]
Based on the trailer for Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays one could be forgive to thinking that the movie is very much like Jordan Peele movies like Us, which is to say a horror movie with either vague or overtly supernatural overtones. And it isn’t, not at all. The story revolves around a woman, Neve (Ashley […]
What’s cool about werewolf films by my reckoning is their flexibility. They can be metaphors for sexual wakening, stories about coming into adulthood, whodunits or nothing more than a person changing to a beast. Vikingulven (or Viking Wolf) is the latter, which is to say that it appears to be saying nothing more than what […]
I’m not typically a fan of movies that depict characters that do things as the result of some vaguely defined mental illness because they’re often entirely geared toward sensationalism. And while such misinterpretations are the fuel that power most horror movies, sometimes they at least attempt something approaching reality. Which is what impresses me about […]
John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness is a really odd movie in that the more you view it, the better it gets (which is curious, considering the story). It revolves around an insurance investigator, John Trent (Sam Neill), who’s hired to find a missing author, Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow, who combines the prolificness of […]
I haven’t seen any of The Human Centipede movies – it’s nothing to do with the idea of ‘eating ass’ in and of itself though based on what I’ve heard they take the idea a little too far – because while I’m don’t think of myself as squeamish, there are some roads I’m not the […]
David Bruckner’s The Night House is supposedly the movie that led David Goyer to choose him to direct Hulu’s Hellraiser reboot, which is really interesting because there’s little about that movie that would make him a good choice for that role. Brucker is very methodical and measured in how he approaches his projects and typically […]
While familiar with the work of Lucio Fulci before now, I had no idea he was as prolific as he was. He’d directed/written about seventy features, a catalog more extensive and varied than most people are probably aware though what surprises me most is how he takes what is familiar, and adds his own spin. […]
Let’s be clear, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is likely to be dumb as shit. And sure it’s based on an actual event, but like most movies that make that claim it’s likely to neglect the more pertinent details of the story, which is that four-legged animals can overdose – and die – just as easily […]
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