Exclusive Interview: filmmaker John Berardo on his new horror Initiation “we put men in vulnerable half naked positions because the slasher genre does that to women”

If you're a fan of the slasher movies of the 70s and 80s like Black Christmas and The Slumber Party Massacre, or their post-modern dark comedy incarnations like Scream, you'll likely appreciate the edgy, contemporary social media fueled spin that filmmaker John Berardo puts on the subgenre with his gripping and gruesome debut feature Initiation.... Continue Reading →

May 7, 2021 1

Berlin Film Festival 2021 Review: The Scary of Sixty-First ★★★

The opening credits sequence of actor and podcast host Dasha Nekrasova's directorial debut The Scary of Sixty-First sets the tone for an Upper East Side contemporary horror, all creepy gargoyles and Eli Keszler's beautifully disquieting score. That unsettling feeling sustains throughout the film, which from the first scene is established as a pitch-dark comedy, likely... Continue Reading →

March 3, 2021 0

Exclusive Interview: Sundance horror Knocking star Cecilia Milocco & filmmaker Frida Kempff: “I didn’t want to exploit the female body. We’re so used to seeing that & I’m tired of it”

Frida Kempff's debut narrative feature Knocking (Knackningar), which world premiered at Sundance, is a compelling psychological horror that follows Molly (Cecilia Milocco) in her determination to find the source of the mysterious knocking sounds she can hear from her new apartment, while still grieving the loss of her girlfriend. Read our ★★★★ review of the... Continue Reading →

February 18, 2021 1

Dress To Kill – The Queer Rearview: In Fabric ★★★★

Owing as much to the Italian giallo films of the 60s and 70s such as Suspiria as it does to Stanley Kubrick at his most arch with A Clockwork Orange, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric blazes out of the gates as one of the loopiest, most gorgeously shot thrillers I’ve seen in ages. Although set in... Continue Reading →

August 2, 2020 0

Film Review: Swallow ★★★★

Writer and director Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ haunting debut narrative feature Swallow is a taunt, unnerving psychological thriller with horror elements that’s definitely not for the squeamish. And you may want to save those snacks for another movie. Hunter (Haley Bennett) has just married into the stifling, privileged patriarchy of the Conrad family. She's moved into a... Continue Reading →

March 22, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: October Faction star Gabriel Darku

IDW Entertainment's October Faction, a thrilling sci-fi, horror, fantasy hybrid drama, based on the IDW Publishing comic books by Steve Niles and Damien Worm launches globally on Netflix this Thursday January 23rd 2020. The series stars Gabriel Darku as Geoff Allen, a seventeen year-old out and proud gay high schooler who is forced to move from... Continue Reading →

January 23, 2020 1

How Swede It Is – Film Review: Midsommar ★★★★

Getting dumped sucks. Sometimes you feel it coming on like a slow moving train, unable to stop it, and when it hits you, you experience a long, drawn out kick to the gut. The world feels incomprehensible, nothing makes sense, and you feel like it never will again. You can’t avoid the pain, and you... Continue Reading →

July 5, 2019 0