In honor of Women in Horror Month, this week for Friday Fight, the gang went back and revisited Jennifer Kent’s 2014 feature debut The Babadook. If you haven’t seen it, The Babadook concerns one Amelia (Essie Davis), a widow whose husband is killed in a car accident while driving her to the hospital to deliver…
I Just Came for the Brightside Skittles
It seems that everytime I enter a convenience store, Skittles has introduced a new flavor mix. This time the new mix, Brightside, consists of “bright” colors and decidedly Summer-esque flavors. Without further ado… Kiwi Banana (yellow) – My favorite of all the flavors in this mix. I’ve always had a love for artificial banana flavor…
Join Us For MONSTER MONDAY, While We Watch MAY
Monday, February 27th marks our second #MonsterMonday Live Tweet event. Last month a few of us staffer were joined by a couple of fun guests in discussing Sadako vs. Kayako, which we all ended up enjoying a good bit. Here are a few highlights: #svkwithfs Hair on the VHS player! Yuck! — Brandon McLaren (@BrandonBrmuffin)…
And the Winner is… Oscar Live Action Short Films
And now we move on to the Short Film – Live Action nominees, and we’re here to help with your Oscar Pool ballot. We’ve continue our coverage of the short-form nominees and offer you some more predictions and even more hedging. This year, the nominees for Best Live Action Short Film are as follows: Ennemis…
And the Winner is… Oscar Animated Short Films
If you participate in Oscar pools, you know what a toss-up the Short Form categories can be. They aren’t widely seen, and aren’t a part of the larger cultural discussion in the way that the other nominated films are. There isn’t really a debate over, say, the depiction of the female characters in Pear Cider…
Viewer Discretion is Advised: Top 5 Pre-Film Disclaimers
If you’re old as dirt (like me), you may recall a time when the fine folks at the MPAA (or BBFC, or whatever) used to go out of their way to purge films of any potentially harmful material. Nowadays you can watch A Serbian Film on the Disney Network, so it might be hard to…
Slow-Ass Chases Never Looked So Good: Arrow’s PSYCHOMANIA Special Edition Blu
There are very few movies with cooler ideas than Psychomania. Bikers back from the dead, raising hell in the English suburbs. It is the type of film that I have seen a few times, but only saw it under other names and awful prints. Fortunately for exploitation fans everywhere, Psychomania has received the Arrow Video…
St. Vincent Oozes Talent and Promise in Her Directorial Debut
Magnolia announced a few years ago that they were releasing an anthology film under the title of XX. This lineup was quite different from what we received, but I was a little nonplussed by that original announcement. Not that it was a film only made by women, but it was the women they picked. People…
A French Take on Leopold and Loeb: A Review of FEVER
An adaptation of Leslie Kaplan’s novel of the same name, Fever draws from a well of inspiration… most notably the famed American murderers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Nathan and Richard kidnapped and murdered 14 year old Bobby Franks on May 21, 1924. The subsequent trial for Bobby Franks murder was deemed the “Trial of…
UNEARTHED & UNTOLD… and Unfortunately (a Wee Bit) Uninteresting
I have always had a strange relationship with the 1989 film Pet Semetary. It scared the shit out of me as a kid and was one of the first horror flicks that I snuck out to watch with friends. When Zelda started to scream, I may have peed my pants a little. As an adult…
HAVENHURST Shows Directorial Promise and Interesting Vision
Writer/director of the new horror mystery Havenhurst, Andrew Erin, has been at it since 2002. His list of IMDB credits doesn’t include any titles that really jump out to most film fans, but there is always a reason that a filmmaker keeps getting work year after year, film after film. In the case of Erin,…
DOOBIOUS SOURCES is a Different Take on the Stoner Comedy
This is Zorn Tappadapo (Jason Weissbrod), the producer and cameraman of Instant Karma news team. This is Reginald “The Reg” Block-Hunsleigh (Jeff Lorch), the face of the Instant Karma team. Doobious Sources features the duo freelancin’ and freewheelin’ to score some big scoops to sell to local TV stations. Their methods aren’t always on the…
THE BAD BUNCH (aka All Lives Matter: The Movie)
February is Black History Month and the horror community has also labeled it Women in Horror Month, so there is no shortage of great selections for our Friday Fights in February… yet, I failed… and hard. 1973’s The Bad Bunch aka Tom aka All Lives Matter: The Movie (of course, that one’s my title not…
How the Nine Satanic Statements Made Me A Better Christian
This is the piece I’ve wanted to write since I was first approached to contribute to an art and culture site intended to engage from time to time in concepts of faith and spirituality. I believe in a higher power. I believe the Bible is a great philosophical text like The Brother’s Grimm or The…
Not So Polite: 5 (Sorta) Canadian Slasher Film Killers
Being a Canadian can be a real hassle. Not only do we have to deal with a devilishly handsome Prime Minister, quality Tim Horton’s doughnuts and free healthcare, but we – tragically – have an international reputation as being just so damn nice. Really, it’s both sickening and unwarranted, as this massive tundra is as…
Cheer Up, Emo Kid! A Brief Take on THE LIFE OF EMO
As soon as this adventure of a mixtape began I suddenly remembered how much I like some of the songs like “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “Gives You Hell”. The Life of Emo is a great “modernization” of older and newer pop punk, perfect for everyone. There’s a reason it’s already becoming popular with…
1961: EL CID Reigns Victorious
The Film: El Cid (1961) Directed by: Anthony Mann Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren IMDb Plot: The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors. Also In Theaters: Bachelor Flat If a Man Answers Madison Avenue Only Two Can Play Tender…