Horror
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Compound Fracture (2013) Directed by: Anthony J. Rickert-Epstein
Written by: Renae Geerlings, Tyler Mane
Featuring: Tyler Mane, Muse Watson, Derek Mears, Leslie Easterbrook, Renae Geerlings, Susan Angelo, Alex Saxon
In early May, Dallas hosts a huge horror convention called Texas Frightmare Weekend. TFW always features some of the most prominent and exciting guests in the horror genre as well as some terrific screenings, and this year was no exception.
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05/21/13 |
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Wrath of the Crows (2013) Directed by: Ivan Zuccon
Written by: Gerardo Di Filippo
Featuring: Debbie Rochon, Tiffany Shepis, Tara Cardinal, Domiziano Arcangeli, Suzi Lorraine
From the trailers, I expected Wrath of the Crows to be in the vein of the classic Italian exploitation films, and in a way it is, with a generous amount of extreme gore and a scream queen in fetish gear throughout the film. But what I wasn't expecting to see was a very personal, metaphysical exploration of life after death told through heavy symbolism.
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05/05/13 |
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Thanatomorphose (2012) Directed and written by: Éric Falardeau
Featuring: Kayden Rose, Émile Beaudry, Eryka Cantieri, Roch-Denis Gagnon
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05/05/13 |
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'Hemlock Grove' Is Live...For Now Netflix's third foray into the original programming arena has gone live. And this time, it's horror...or horrible, depending on who you ask.
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04/19/13 |
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Resolution (2012) Directed by: Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead
Written by: Justin Benson
Featuring: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague, Zahn McClarnon
I have read a lot of online reviews lately bashing indie horror as a whole for being derivative, unimaginative and amateurish. I have been reviewing indie horror films for years, and I have watched my share of knockoffs made by people with no knowledge of the genre and "homages" made by filmmakers who follow the rules of the genre so slavishly that their films end up adding nothing new. Like these other critics, I get sick of it too. But every once in awhile, I come across a great indie horror movie like Resolution, a clever, innovative, unique little film that slowly gets under your skin. Films like Resolution are the reason indie filmmaking exists.
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04/13/13 |
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Stoker (2013) Directed by: Chan-Wook Park
Written by: Wentworth Miller
Featuring: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Stoker is, quite possibly, my favorite film of 2013.
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04/11/13 |
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Evil Dead (2013) Directed by: Fede Alvarez
Written by: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
Featuring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore
Can you believe The Evil Dead is more than 30 years old?
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04/08/13 |
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13 Eerie (2013) Directed by: Lowell Dean
Written by: Christian Piers Betley
Featuring: Katharine Isabelle, Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jesse Moss
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04/05/13 |
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Room 237 (2012) Director: Rodney Ascher
Featuring: Bill Blakemore, Juli Kearns, Jay Weidner, Geoffrey Cocks, John Fell Ryan
No other movie divides opinion quite like The Shining. Hailed alternately as a work of genius and a confused mess, people either love it or hate it. Haters include the author of the source material, Stephen King, who called it "a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little." It left critics scratching their heads — Roger Ebert confessed himself disturbed by the "elusive open-endedness," while Pauline Kael declared "Kubrick mystifies us deliberately." Yet for every moviegoer who rejects The Shining as cold and impenetrable, there's one who embraces it as a masterpiece. There are even some people who believe its ambiguity holds the key to the great mysteries of modern civilization.
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04/02/13 |
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Come Out and Play (2012) Directed by: Makinov
Written by: Makinov
Featuring: Vinessa Shaw, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Daniel Giménez Cacho
There's something about children that makes their addition to horror films so creepy. Perhaps it's got to do with the inherent innocence that each child has, having not yet been corrupted or jaded by life's callousness and disappointments. They have nothing but happiness, hope and wonder ahead of them. Or at least they should. But what if they didn't? What if some children, under that guise of innocence and purity, harbored a cold-blooded and murderous apathy?
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03/28/13 |
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