Reviews
The Binding is as Barren as its Empty Sets and Emptier Characters
In October 2015, The New York Times asked its readers, “If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it?” There’s no question that killing an infant is wrong. Ther...
Comic Review: Puppet Master Curtain Call #2
Warning up front: We’ll be discussing some pretty major spoilers. The previous issue of the climactic miniseries Curtain Call teased a massive fight between Toulon’s puppets and Anapa&#x...
Better Watch Out is a Must See Holiday Horror [Blu-Ray Review]
Better Watch Out finds high school student Ashley preparing to move of town in a couple of days. She takes a babysitting gig to distract herself from the harsh reality of the eminent re...
Back to the ’80s: Far from Home
Welcome to Back to the ’80s. This recurring feature aims to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly from horror’s most beloved decade. Regardless of which category a particul...
Kaleidoscope Is A Psychological Thriller Sans Thrills
Kaleidoscope is one of those flicks that feels like three different movies superglued together. The first half gives you the impression it’s going to be a Hard Candy-esque “perils of onl...
Comic Review: Angel Season 11 #11
Spoilers for those not quite caught up on the comics, but this is technically a spoiler for the previous issue. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way: So, Angel and Illyria had sex. It ...
Danielle Harris is the Highlight of the Ho-Hum Inoperable
Hallucinations. Dream sequences. The old “I Am Tyler Durden” dual character motif. Flashbacks. Every red herring plot device you can think of finds its way into Inoperable, and just when y...
Night Of The Witch: A Horror Short That Should Be Feature Length
Shorts have long been a budding filmmaker’s first entry point into the big, bad world of feature entertainment. Never more so than in horror, from Mama to Rare Exports and even Saw. More often t...
The Crucifixion Tries to Follow in The Exorcist’s Footsteps but Falls Short
It’s hard to overstate how much film—horror films especially—changed at the end of 1973 with the release of The Exorcist. Lines spanned for blocks outside of t...