Proxy is a film where lots could be written, it’s just hard to know where to start. I’ll start by saying that it’s not really your modern-day horror film. A disturbing psychological thriller with plenty of horrific events, most definitely, but it never felt like outright horror to me. Nevertheless, mental illness can be its […]
The last time I visited an online chat room was in the 1990s, so I don’t know how different today’s chat rooms look from the text-only ones that I remember, and thanks to my recent viewing of The Den, I really have no desire to find out. The Den, directed by Zachary Donohue, also the […]
I’ve never been sentenced to jail, so I can’t say for sure, but I have to imagine that being sent to rehab instead is a welcome relief for any soon-to-be inmate. Silent Retreat, however, is a movie that makes regular old jail time look pretty good. Directed by Tricia Lee, the film begins with Janey, […]
Christopher Dye’s Something Sinister opens with Amelia, the main character, wandering around outside, looking for her seemingly lost dog. Then she goes inside where her aunt disgustedly claims that Rupert is dead. In some ways, that scene summarizes the entire movie. Is Rupert dead or alive? Or is Amelia just imagining everything she sees and […]
Whenever a horror film begins with the preface that it’s based on a true story, I wonder how true that claim really is. Is it just a scare tactic, or is the film truly based on actual events? Banshee Chapter, directed by Blair Erickson and released in 2013, really is based on an actual chapter […]
Who knew that cannibalism, under the right circumstances, can result in Parkinson’s-like symptoms? That’s one little-known fact that viewers can expect to take away from Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are, released in 2013, a horror film based on the stomach-turning act of eating fellow human beings. The film, written by Mickle along with […]
What would you do if your loved one turned into a zombie? That seems to be the question viewers are left to ponder while watching About A Zombie, directed by Bing Bailey, also the writer along with Laura Morand Bailey. An Irish film set in a working-class Dublin neighborhood, About A Zombie is another low-budget […]
Just when you might think there couldn’t possibly be another vampire movie made, another one comes along to prove you wrong. Such is the case with the recently released Afflicted, a feature-length debut from Canadian filmmakers Derek Lee and Clif Prowse, who have written and directed several previous shorts together. The film starts out charmingly […]
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one” is the sinister-sounding opener to director Jordan Barker’s recently released Torment. Not every horror film starts with a quote from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, so I liked that this one did. It gave me the impression that I was maybe about to watch […]
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