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Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work, one of his neighbors, like clockwork, walks by his home talking on his cell phone. Sometimes they greet each other, others they simply perform this unspoken, synchronized ritual we can assume has happened for years. Each instance of this interactions is shot from […]

For the film House Red, British director Coz Greenop made his first horror movie Wandering Rose in 2014. The movie saw the light of the day in 2022. Coz has also directed the horror films Dark Beacon and The Last Heist. House Red is not an uninteresting film, to say the least, and further analysis

The Leprechaun is back! No, is not that one. I meant the one from Champdog Films. Yes, the company follows up its film The Leprechaun’s Game, which was released earlier this year, with The Leprechaun’s Curse, aka The Leprechaun’s Rage (the film’s title on IMDb and its title on-screen). Like before, Bao Tieu reprises her

It’s been a while since I reviewed a giallo but it seems that is about to change. A few days ago I reviewed the 2017 film What the Waters Left Behind that was sent to me from Unearthed Films and MVD. It was an interesting horror film and quite bloody. Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, the

Tooth Fairy: Queen of Pain brings us Paula Coiz, Samantha Cull, Genna Loskutnikov, Giedre Jackyte, Marcus Massey, and Jo Barker. While it doesn’t quite blend supernatural elements with horror, it does do supernatural realism which is unique in its own right. It does proudly have a hint or two of fiction, given that it is

“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie a medium-budget project that feels much bigger because it puts all the money on the screen, as studio executives like to say, and that will make people want to trust first-time director Julien Hayet-Kerknawi with bigger budgets moving forward. But it seems more likely that it’ll be

The movie starts with a blend of subpar music that features piano instruments that overly emphasize the song’s melodramatic theme. The scenes of deserted camping spots are accompanied by pictures of the site the disclaimer covers unexplained reports of mass disappearance in the area. Cut to five bros chugging along in an SUV and cracking

“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director Tilman Singer goes in articulating the strange goings-on that drive this stylish, unsettling thriller, the less compelling it becomes. Trying to comprehend the hows and whys of this twisted mystery creates a distraction from which the film never recovers. Either we needed to

Slasher parodies vary from good to bad, like Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012) and A Haunted House (2013), respectively. This one lets you ask, Fat Chance? Well. The movie opens up with a killing that seems to be compulsory followed by an over-the-top full-frontal nude shower scene. Afterward, we have a non-footage film about the