Repo Woman
Possessor by Hope Madden It’s been eight years since Brandon Cronenberg swam familiar family waters with his feature debut, Antiviral. He is back with another cerebral, body-conscious fantasy thriller and…read more →
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On the Road Again
Alone by Hope Madden “Do you think you’re the first one to say that?” That is a good, sinister question when posed by the mustachioed traveler responding to his captive’s…read more →
Bold Patterns
Spiral by Hope Madden How many films, horror or otherwise, open as a moving van leaves a fresh faced family unpacking in their new dream home? Kurtis David Harder and…read more →
Much Ado About Nature
Entwined by Hope Madden Aah, the woods. It is almost overwhelming in its defiance of civilization, its sheer magnitude of just plain nature. Shakespeare set his magic there, but a…read more →
Fright Club: Best Reboots
What were we looking for? Reboots/remakes that are superior to the original. There are more than you think. In the podcast, we run through eight horror reboots that are superior…read more →
Shed’s Dead, Baby
The Shed by Hope Madden The 2008 film Deadgirl tested me. Boasting solid performances across the board, it told of a bullied teen who pined for the bully’s girlfriend. He…read more →
Angel of Death
DieRy by Darren Tilby As far as psychological thrillers go, this is a peculiar one. An odd concoction of glaringly obvious plot twists and contrived diegesis; of excellent performances but…read more →
Don’tcha Think?
The Unfamiliar by Hope Madden The first thing you’ll likely notice in writer/director Henk Pretorius’s supernatural thriller The Unfamiliar is that the distant hero— the one who comes home from…read more →
Bullets and Broomsticks
The Pale Door by Hope Madden The horror Western is an under-explored subgenre. There have been some great ones. In fact, just two years ago filmmaker Emma Tammi took a…read more →
So Random
Random Acts of Violence by Hope Madden The last time I saw Jesse Williams get into a car on a road trip to horror, the journey delivered one of the…read more →