(AUTHOR’S NOTE: My friends and I called it ‘Slenderman’. The 2018 film called it ‘Slender Man’. I will use those two spellings to differentiate between the...
The best horror films aren’t really about monsters, ghouls, or goblins. They’re about us. On its surface, Truth or Dare is a simple, by-the-books horror film. A small group of...
A Quiet Place opens with what could easily pass as a superb ten-minute short film. The Abbott family-A mother, father, and three children-are raiding a small general...
How much is too much? This is a question that horror filmmakers have been confronted with since the inception of the genre. The idea of horror is to...
Believe it or not, The Strangers (2008) was the first R-Rated film I ever saw in theatres. I was 12, and it left me absolutely traumatized. Now, at...
When I walked into the theater for Eli Roth’s Death Wish (which is a remake of a 1974 ‘exploitation’ film of the same name) I expected...
ANNIHILATION, based on the novel by the same name by Jeff VanderMeer, is the sophomore directorial effort of Alex Garland (writer/director of the 2014 sci-fi powerhouse EX MACHINA)....