My favorite thing about Ari Aster’s Midsommar before I got to see it for myself was the sheer number of women saying it was the best movie to take your shittiest ex to. I could make a similar case for Omri Dorani’s This is Our Home, which recently played at the Brooklyn Horror Fest…

When the title page to a film looks like it belongs on the cover of an ‘80s horror paperback, you just know you’re in for a treat…Or are you?...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation you could swear you’ve experienced before? Did the outcome of said situation seem predetermined? Do you have a shitty landlord with an aggressive beard and also work with a professor, skilled in quantum physics, who has an even more aggressive beard than your landlord? If you answered “yes” to every single one of these questions, you might just be James, the main character of Volition…

Whenever we watch a haunted house story, audiences tend to say, “I would be out of that house so fast! Why don’t they leave!?” Fair question, imaginary viewer. That’s just one of many crux’s that haunting films must endure, and while Eli falls victim to a handful of them, the film finds a unique way to satisfy all of us backseat filmmakers…

Let's get this out of the way: Anyone who takes the chance to write a script, find a crew, get funding, cast actors(this film has Bill Mosely and Bill Oberst Jr), and find a distributor - definitely deserves a round of applause. The movie industry isn't easy and anyone who makes a film should be given respect, regardless of how far the final product strays the initial creative intention. No one wants to make a bad movie. But the truth is, Jeff Broadstreet's Devil's Junction: Handy Dandy's Revenge is a bad movie...

​Have you ever moved into a new place, spent your first afternoon inside cleaning, organizing, and trashing the previous occupants stuff? Did you feel melancholy going through somebody else's knicknacks and casually discarding their memories? If not, did you at least feel deep dread and discomfort the first time you laid down to sleep in what had been somebody else's bedroom? Creaks, cracks, and cold breezes could be nothing more than the home settling in the night. Or, you could be hearing the angry spirits in the walls. But it's probably the water pipes or something, right?...

It’s hard not to love a movie where Tom Atkins is strutting around throwing out quippy one-liners and Jamie Kennedy plays a surly doctor with a ponytail. At least, it is for me. Happily, there are plenty of other reasons to find enjoyment in Patrick Lussier’s Trick, his third collaboration with writer Todd Farmer (My Bloody Valentine 3D, Drive Angry). Gore hounds will rejoice at the buckets of blood spilled while fans of the near-mythic slashers of yore should find themselves intrigued by the mysterious Trick, the film’s seemingly supernatural killer who wields mayhem and madness as expertly as his signature hunting knife.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Graham Denman’s Greenlight, but the buzz surrounding its SHRIEKFEST premier was pretty hard to miss. Greenlight, Denman’s feature directorial debut, went on to win SHREIKFEST’s 2019 award for Best Thriller Feature. Having watched the film, it’s easy to understand why...

Gwen, written and directed by William McGregor takes place in 1855 and stars Eleanor Worthington Cox as the titular character. It is a tale of a young girl's struggle to keep her family together as her mother's illness, father's absence, and societal pressure create a daunting and horrific reality for her. The most beautiful aspect of this story is Gwen's continual attempt to provide joy and wonder for her younger sister while her world and the world around her comes crashing down. Gwen's ability to always finds moments of true joy with her sibling is incredibly touching...

During the late 60s-70s, filmmaking experienced an exploitative trend all throughout the world, a time when just about anything and everything that could be exploited, was. So of course, the male fantasy of hot nuns under all of that clothing that stripped, screwed and slashed became a popular sub-genre. Killer Nun (1979), restored for all to see by Arrow Video, is one of the more well-known nunsploitation flicks of the bunch…