What begins as an innocent attempt at sexual assault and victim shaming turns into something rather ugly.
Read MoreOne never expects to find much present-day relevance in a jolly little whodunnit produced over seventy years ago.
Read MoreThe whole business of fiction and reality gets considerably blurry and it’s hard for a regular Johnnie to know what’s what.
Read MoreThe audience is treated to spheres in eyeballs, spheres for eyeballs, brains in spheres and, marvel of marvels, golden spheres.
Read MoreBlood Fest addresses a problem that has plagued brainy terror scribes since time immemorial.
Read MoreSheriff Gus Gilbert is a man whose contemptible severity gives way to slapstick gold the very moment he dies.
Read MoreSewing their mouths shut should have silenced the girls to everyone’s satisfaction but the young Mr. Green decided to really cement the whole business by murdering them as well.
Read MoreMonte Hellman is not the first subversive artist to be attracted to the coveted Christmas slasher sequel sub-genre.
Read MoreLuke is a complex little chap whose needs cannot be met with boiled sweets and the latest electronic gaming console.
Read MoreIf more films were as suitable and culturally enriching for youngsters as this, I would have had a sizable brood of my own by now.
Read MoreAt times, it makes films with less likable murder victims seem hardly worth the trouble.
Read MoreOne execution is rarely enough to tie things up as neatly as one might like and Don finds his deeply repressed anger suddenly popping out here and there.
Read MoreThe girls decide that any unholy communion that’s good enough for the boys is good enough for them.
Read MoreI am met with an unprofessional swell of pleasant associations whenever I glimpse the Dark Castle Entertainment logo.
Read MoreDirector Matty Beckerman is able to conjure more verisimilitude than is typically seen in doll-themed collegiate slashers.
Read MoreEven with its jaunty name, business at Party Beach is adversely effected by news of mutated, undead gill-men making meals of the locals.
Read MoreFor any dubious viewers who found themselves asking, “do we really and truly need Another WolfCop,” writer and director Lowell Dean responds strongly in the affirmative.
Read MoreLike summoning an angel with nothing but chalk and starvation, A Dark Song is impressive in how great an effect it produces with so very little.
Read MoreEven while avoiding “Emergo,” “Perceptio,” “Illusion-O,” and other “O” bearing innovations of his own creation, William Castle is still unable to deny his roots entirely.
Read MoreWhile some borrow the family automobile without express permission or host a party while the parents are away, Leah invokes a witch named Pyewacket to murder her mother.
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