All Movie Reviews
The Hills Run Red is a Criminally Underrated Slasher [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to ...
Butt Boy isn’t Quite a Sphincter de Force [Review]
A movie like Butt Boy is impossible to review, in the traditional sense. To critique any piece of media properly, there has to be some sort of measuring stick, some sort of preexisting gauge of qualit...
We Summon the Darkness is Light, Throwaway Fun [Review]
Last year’s brilliant Satanic Panic pitted a pizza delivery girl against a group of rich Satanists in suburbia. We Summon the Darkness posits that it’s actually the young woman whoȁ...
In The Trap Stumbles Between Psychological And Supernatural Horror [Review]
In The Trap is the first English language feature from director Alessio Liguori (Report 51). Opening with an extended flashback sequence, a title card indicates this particular rainy night is in the s...
Sea Fever Offers Unexpected Prescience and an Opening for Ethical Debate [Review]
We’re in a moment where many properties seem prescient in ways not initially intended. Sea Fever’s personal and ethical dilemmas would have been relevant at any time, but they resonate e...
The Other Lamb is a Righteous Takedown of Christian Cults [Review]
My parents sent me to a Catholic all boys high school to “avoid distractions.” What “distractions” means, if you haven’t been indoctrinated into the bizarre sexist c...
Creep is Character Driven and Suspenseful [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to ti...
Glenn Danzig’s Verotika is Truly, Unforgivably Terrible [Review]
Verotika is un film de Danzig so, even without knowing anything else about it, it’s an intriguing prospect. The title, in case you’re a bit slow, is a combination of the words “vi...
Come to Daddy is Simultaneously Violent and Heartfelt [Blu-ray Review]
When I sat down to watch Come to Daddy, I almost immediately gathered that it was going to be tonally diverse. It opens with a quote from Shakespeare, followed immediately by a quote from Be...