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Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Buildout” and “Killington”
The Buildout (2024) Aficionados of enigmatic cinema and high strangeness should find plenty to like about...
Game Review: ‘The Mildew Children’
The Growing Stones and Valkyrie Initiative came together to tell a macabre story about a village inhabited only by...
Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Review: “Ghost Game” (2024)
Director Jill Gevargizian’s sophomore feature Ghost Game is an effective offering that uses home invasion in a unique...
Panic Fest 2024 Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “The Ceremony Is About to Begin” and “The Hyperborean”
The Ceremony Is About to Begin (2024) Director Sean Nichols Lynch follows up his vampire comedy Red Snow (2021) with...
Game Review: ‘The Kindeman Remedy’
Winner of the Official Selection category of Fear Fest Black Summer 2023, and scoring massive positive ratings on...
Movie Review: Night of the Blood Monster (1970) – Blue Underground 4k/Blu-ray combo
It’s the 1600’s and things are looking rather shitty for local witches ‘round ol’ London-town thanks to Judge Jeffreys...
Spoiler-Free Film Reviews: “Red Rooms” and “Dead Mail” (Overlook Film Festival)
Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges; Canada, 2023) Pascal Plante’s French-language Canadian chiller Red Rooms deftly...
Movie Review: The Abandoned (2006) – Unearthed Films Blu-ray
Russia, 1966: a lady, who has been fatally wounded, drives pell-mell onto a farmers property where she up and croaks…...
Movie Review: Spider Labyrinth (1989) – Severin 4K/Blu-ray combo
Professor Alan Whitmore (Roland Wybenga) is sent to Budapest by the cadre of totally not up to no-good folks that...
Movie Review: Hot Spur (1968) and The Scavengers (1969) – Severin Blu-ray
Our pals at Severin have unleashed a duo of wicked westerns from exploitation maestro Lee Frost (Love Camp 7, The...
Spoiler-Free Short Film Reviews: “Homebody,” “Extreme Gravity,” “Kelly,” “Beholder,” “Red Leather, Yellow Leather,” “Turtle?”, “What I Remember” (Unnamed Footage Festival)
Following is a roundup of seven of the short films that screened at San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival 2024,...