Tag: thriller
SXSW 2023 Review: MONOLITH, Single Setting Sci-Fi Delivers Creeping Dread
A disgraced journalist tries to claw her way back into the game through a podcast on the metaphysical mysteries of the unexplained in first time feature director Matt Vesely’s Monolith. A single character, single location science fiction thriller, Monolith delivers...
SXSW 2023 Review: THE WRATH OF BECKY, Hell Hath No Fury Like This Teenage Girl's Scorn
Becky is back, and this time it’s… pretty much the same as last time. Three years ago, the world witnessed one of the craziest heel turns in recent history, funny guy Kevin James (The King of Queens, Paul Blart: Mall...
SCREAM VI Review: Meta-Slasher-Whodunit Offers Thrills, Chills, and Kills in Equal Measure
After a decade-long hiatus due to several factors, including lagging audience interest, the collapse of rights-holder The Weinstein Company, and a transfer of those rights to Spyglass Entertainment (among other factors), the Scream series, once a trilogy, now a franchise...
TRANSFUSION Review: Sam Worthington Stars in This Australian Drama Crime Thriller
Ryan Logan is a former soldier trying to live the life of a civilian and raise his only son, Billy, on his own. Overwhelmed by the lashing out actions of his delinquent son Logan now faces the reality that Billy...
MARLOWE Review: Over-Familiar Tropes Sinks Chandler Homage
Directed by Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange star in an adaptation of a novel by John Banville.
JOHN WICK 4: The Final Trailer. Bigger. Deadlier. And Brutal Traffic in Paris.
Here. We. Go. All week Lionsgate has been sending out bits and bobs, teasing us about the upcoming release of John Wick Chapter 4. Yesterday it was a series of characters posters, sans Mark Zaror but they included a definitely...
CONSECRATION Review: Effective, If Familiar, Old-School Christian-Themed Horror
In Christian mythology, the image or representation of a serpent wrapped around a cross generally signifies the triumph of good over evil (i.e., Jesus Christ defeating Lucifer/Devil). Another, looser interpretation would suggest that a serpent coiled around a cross represents...
JETHICA Trailer: SXSW Indie Flick Streaming Exclusively on Fandor in The U.S. This February
When Jessica's stalker surprises her in New Mexico, she must seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good.
WAKING KARMA Review: Tepid Attempts to Thrill in an Ultimately Unengaging Thriller
On Karma’s seventeenth birthday her mom, Sunny, discovers that the father of her child, a dangerous and murderous cult leader named Paul, is coming to collect his daughter for a rite of passage ritual. Mother and daughter flee to the...
THE BOOGEYMAN Trailer: It's The Thing That Comes For Your Kids
Host director Rob Savage has cashed in his street cred from his 2020 horror hit and got himself a big studio gig, directing an adaptation of a short story by Stephen King. Not to shabby. The Boogeyman opens June...
SCREAM VI Trailer: Another Familiar Face Returns in Sixth Chapter
Jeez Lousie, that's a hell of an opening, isn't it? Here is the new trailer for Scream VI, coming to theaters on March 10th! Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter....
SWALLOWED: Watch The Trailer For Carter Smith's Queer Body Horror Flick, Out in February
After a drug run goes bad, two friends must survive a nightmarish ordeal of drugs, bugs and horrific intimacy in this backwoods body-horror thriller.
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13: American Genre Film Archive Announces Theatrical Screenings of 4K Restoration of John Carpenter's Classic Action Flick
The American Genre Film Archive has just announced the theatrical dates for screenings of their 4K restoration of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. Thankfully, there are a number of dates for screenings up here in Canada as well....
Review: M3GAN, You've Got a Friend in Her?
On the one hand, society (or much of it) constantly teases girls for playing with dolls, seeing it as something trite, cute, femme, and most of all, a sign of weakness and docility. On the other hand, if a lot...
Imagine 2022 Review: EXHIBIT #8 Displays Dutch Found Footage Fun
This year's Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam featured no less than two Dutch genre world premières: the dystopic science fiction drama Sputum (reviewed here) and Rotterdam-based director Ruben Broekhuis' found footage thriller Exhibit #8. What? Yes, found footage. No, don't run...
Trailer for COCAINE BEAR. Need We Say More?
How about it stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Ray Liotta in one of his last roles (Goodfellas), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), and Brooklynn...
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Official Trailer
With the price on his head ever increasing, Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to Berlin
Review: HALLOWEEN ENDS With A Whimper
It’s been a long, strange road for Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise. The longest running major slasher franchise is also the most convoluted; with numerous timelines, retcons, reboots, sequels, requels, and false stops & starts littering its very uneven...
Review: DARK GLASSES, A Master of Horror Returns to the Sub-Genre He Defined
After a decade-long hiatus from filmmaking, horror auteur Dario Argento (Inferno, Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) has returned with his latest film, Dark Glasses (Occhiali neri), a modest, occasionally middling riff on the giallo sub-genre he helped define...
Mexico Maleficarum: Program Devoted to Mexican Horror Cinema at The Academy Museum Next Month
If you're in the Los Angeles area and feel you are due for a extensive lesson on the history of Mexican horror cinema then you need to get to Mexico Maleficarum: Resurrecting 20th Century Mexican Horror Cinema at the Academy...
