If you haven’t read the late Rebecca Godfrey’s novel by the same name you are in for a wild and devastating ride. The opening moments set the tone for this tragic and horrifying story. It is a dark and sad fairy tale. It isn’t of the glass slippers and fairy godmother type, though. This is a Grimm fairy tale with broken dreams and destroyed children. Godfrey’s words ring ominously. They are a warning. In November of 1997, in Victoria Falls, Canada, a fourteen-year-old girl named Reena Virk went missing and was later found dead. Under The Bridge details how Reena was killed and asks serious que ..read more

When good stories mix culture, folklore, and traditional horror tropes, the results are always good. The combination offers a fresh take on old favorites. The stories are injected with creativity, and the scares are unexpected because they are told through a new lens. The Thai box office smash is a prime example of that. With The Exorcist: Believer, The Omen prequel, and Late Night With The Devil renewing interest in the possession subgenre, Death Whisperer lands on Netflix at a great time. The film is full of unexplained supernatural happenings, and the ending is sure to have left you wonderi ..read more

“Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.” Writing in the booklet that accompanies the new high-def Blu from Indicator, Ian Barr describes Snapshot as trafficking in “the free-floating dread of existing in the skin of an attractive woman in the late seventies” and “the way in which that sense of ambient threat is exponentially increased when one’s image is recorded, reproduced, and exploited – though not necessarily in that order.” Nominally a thriller, Snapshot was released internationally hard on the heels of John Carpenter’s classic Halloween and market ..read more

Almost everything works in Prime Video’s Fallout. None of the characters fit into neat boxes. They are gloriously messy and so richly imagined you feel as if you have literally seen the game burst into life. There are very few truly good or bad guys, and everyone does their best to survive. The love letter to the game is an amalgamation of all the games mixed with a dash of something altogether new and arguably great we didn’t even know we needed. The thrilling first season ended with shocking revelations and enough twists to make your head turn. Fallout Season 2 has already been announced, so ..read more

The Overlook Film Festival has come and gone once again. The city that is home to all things spooky will feel a little less scary as the Prytania theatres return to their normally scheduled programming. As it always does The Overlook continues to shine like a beacon for horror lovers everywhere. This year was no different. From all of the wonderful movies presented at the Overlook Film Festival here are your top finishers. Read below for all of the awards. The feature film Audience Award, voted on by festival attendees, went to Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity, a terrifying creepfest in wh ..read more

The Overlook Film Festival has come and gone and just in the opening weekend I managed to catch 11 films. Part of why The Overlook continues to be a top tier genre festival is their commitment to showing popular movies multiple times in multiple theatres. It enables critics and fans alike to find time to screen the movies they are most excited about. 2024 was no different. Here are the top horror movies of 2024 coming out of the festival and where and when you can screen them. NEW LIFE (2023) Streaming and Theatrical Release May 3rd I was not entirely excited about another virus movie. All th ..read more

“The moment of death is like the blink of an eye.” Patrick is one of those movies that has been on the periphery of my awareness for what seems like forever but which I had never seen until I received a copy of the new Indicator Blu for review. Notorious as an icon of the so-called Ozploitation surge which followed the introduction of the R-rating in Australia, Patrick is famous for its bizarre logline, its wide-eyed but otherwise inert central character, and the fact that it was a stepping stone film for director Richard Franklin (Psycho 2, Road Games, Cloak & Dagger). For those who aren ..read more

Why do we love watching the world burn? Considering how many disaster movies there are, the why isn’t as important as the how, as in how quickly we can find another story and shoot a movie. Disaster movies come in all types. They can be harrowing character studies, action-packed star-driven thrillers, ultra-realistic thinkers, and even comedies. Here are the Best Disaster Movies On Netflix Right Now In 2024. #Alive This is not to be confused with the 1993 Alive, which was the story of a men’s soccer team whose plane crash-landed in the Andes, and they were forced to resort to cannibalism to su ..read more

This beautiful, heartbreaking, frustrating at times, rock star of a movie was not for me. I Saw the TV Glow is a queer film. Jane Schoenbrun‘s newest feature celebrates and mourns what our LGBTQ teenagers have had to endure as they accept who they really are or continue to hide that identity from the inevitable ridicule they will receive from their peers and families. When I say it was not for me it is not that I didn’t enjoy it. I absolutely did. It looks absolutely beautiful. It it not to say the 90’s nostalgia did not hit every single dopamine receptor in my brain. It absolutely did and I ..read more

Good Irish Horror uses the mysticism and hard-earned history of the land to weave compelling stories. There are movies that make you feel like you are a part of things more than they want to scare you. These films bewitch us with folklore and life truths best left whispered or not spoken at all. All You Need Is Death, premiering at Panic Fest 2024, is one of those sorts of films. Folklore, when done right, envelops you in what could be while holding you powerless to what is. Written and directed by Paul Duane, All We Need Is Death is a stunning and tragic story about love so all-consuming it d ..read more