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Spoiler-Free Reviews: BIBI and WINTERTIDE (Cinequest)

BIBI (2023)   A gorgeous looking meditation on grief and loss, writer/director Christopher Beatty’s atmospheric thriller Bibi uses gothic elements in its story of a woman named Vivan (Elizabeth Paige in a riveting lead performance) and the...

Movie Review: Does ‘The Haunting Of The Queen Mary’ Sink or Swim?

The Haunting of the Queen Mary is out now in theaters. I watched it, and I have some thoughts.   This horror, directed by Gary Shore (Dracula Untold), explores the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family's voyage on Halloween...

Product Review: The Zombie Survival Candle From Candle Qwest

Candles really set the mood for anything, a relaxing bath, reading a good book in the dark, summoning an eldritch demigod in order to earn your admission into an esoteric order, OR setting the mood for you and your friends for a dungeon crawl. At...

Movie Review: August Underground (2001) – Unearthed Films

Writer/director/producer/actor Fred Vogel’s 2001 found-footage free-for-all August Underground (co-written by Allen Peters) is light on story… in fact the entirety of the film’s 70 minute run-time can be summed up thusly: two serial killers on a...