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Spoiler-Free Review: “House of Sayuri” (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)

If you watch J-horror, you have likely heard of director Kôji Shiraishi. He has 95 directing credits on IMDB, with his most well-known film to Western audiences perhaps being the 2016 phantom face-off Sadako vs. Kayako. With his latest feature...

Box Set Review: Danza Macabra Volume 2 – Severin 4K/Blu-ray

Remember way back to like last year when Severin released their collection of Italian Gothic fright flicks in a handy box set called Danza Macabra? Well, they went and released a second volume (and because I’m woefully behind, a third set as well…...

Maxxxine’s Star Dims in the Third Act – Mia Goth Shines Throughout!

  The third film in Ti West's trilogy, MAXXXINE, starring Mia Goth (as Maxine), Kevin Bacon, and Simon Prast, was… okay. It's wonderfully shot, with a slick, totally 80's, neon noir vibe. I was intrigued, fully engrossed by the seedy...

Movie Review: Phantoms (1998) – Scream Factory 4K/Blu-ray combo

Hey, it's Joe Chappelle's (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) adaptation of horror author Dean R. Koontz's (who also wrote the screenplay) Phantoms... a movie I have seen exactly once upon it's release (now considerably more thanks to this...