I like to believe I am hard to impress given my experience and background in film and doubly so in respect to the genre of vampire cinema (not being a fan considering the field’s artistic limitations). Moreover, when regarding short works by unestablished filmmakers,...

I have not watched many good horror films this year. You can tell by the reviews I have posted on the site in the past nine months. It was not until last week that I actually saw a film that I found to be worthy of the best film of the year in Bereavement. However, a...

Let’s face it. Death itself is a terrifying thing. We don’t know when or how we are going to die, only that we will someday. We may live until we are in our 90s or we can die suddenly at a young age without any fulfillment of what we could achieve, whether it be a...

[Segments of the following review have previously appeared, in varied form, in City Slab Magazine #10.] There exist very few truly existential works of cinema. Martin Scorsese’s After Hours and Taxi Driver, Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day, Vincenzo Natali’s Cube, Hiroshi...

One of my best friends from when I was younger, always wanted to be a Navy Seal. He trained hard everyday and had the drive to join the navy, get into the seals and become one. He is still one, and although I rarely see and talk to him. I know that what he is doing...

This movie was great! I tell ya folks, there has been some great films coming out of South Korea this year from Tartan Video USA. "Acacia" reminds me of a film I used to watch back in Junior High called "The Guardian", although the stories are different. But they both...

This half revenge, half murder mystery is highly regarded within the horror biz. It plays like Phantom of the Opera eloped with Seven after having plunged headlong into a train as its conductor, his a head full of acid, continued to scream listlessly long after the...

Camp doesn’t quite cover Ryan Schifrin’s free-for-all, unrepentantly escapist slasher-cum-monster flick, Abominable which, if there is any justice in the world, will proudly assume its place in the archives as a work of minor cult horror. If nothing else, who has the...

Tagline: Death Never Runs Out of Time! Aftermath solidified Nacho Cerda as a filmmaker to keep an eye on over eight years ago. His film was visually arresting and terrifying. The Abandoned is a welcomed homecoming for this incredible filmmaker. Writing with his...