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THE CLEANSING HOUR Review – This Livestream of an Exorcism Will Begin Shortly…
Directed by Damien LeVeck Written by Damien LeVeck and Aaron Horwitz Starring Ryan Guzman, Kyle Gallner, Alix Angelis For those of you in need of an update to the age-old battle between demons and exorcists, Damien LeVeck’s The Cleansing Hour brings the war for our souls firmly into the digital age. Hitting VOD, Digital HD […] More
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GO/DON’T GO REVIEW–A Contemporary LAST MAN ON EARTH with Amazing Performance by Alex Knapp
Starring Alex Knapp, Olivia Luccardi, Nore Davis Written by Alex Knapp Directed by Alex Knapp With the ongoing effects of the virus and the hope that it will subside this year, many people have displayed symptoms of isolation and loneliness. Even though many of us have family, friends, and pets to get through these trying […] More
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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review–A Sensational Pastel Revenge Thriller
Starring Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham Written by Emerald Fennell Directed by Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman is not the movie its marketing promises it to be. Sure, plenty of the filmic vignettes– including a sensational montage set to Paris Hilton’s bygone hit “Stars Are Blind”– reflect the candy pop aesthetic and millennial frenzy that […] More
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VIGILANTE 4K Review – Time for Street Justice
Starring Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Rutanya Alda, Don Blakely Directed by William Lustig Distributed by Blue Underground The first time I saw Bill Lustig’s Vigilante (1982) was roughly a decade ago and I distinctly remember feeling a bit letdown by what my mind had built up as some kind of wild Death Wish III (1985)-style […] More
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TREMORS 4K Review – Burrow Into One of the Year’s Best Releases
Starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross Directed by Ron Underwood Distributed by Arrow Video It’s only taken a solid 30 years to happen, but Tremors (1990) finally has a home video release that isn’t a total eyesore. Universal Studios has been pumping out reissues of the same old awful transfer for years, […] More
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SHORTCUT Review – Stranded Teens Battle a Tunnel-Dwelling Creature
Starring Jack Kane, Zak Sutcliffe, Andrei Claude, Sophie Jane Oliver, Terence Anderson Written by Daniele Cosci Directed by Alessio Liguori The 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s It found huge success by telling the story of a group of teens who bond while battling an ancient shapeshifting entity. Over the years, several other films have tried […] More
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THE BLOODHOUND Review–Edgar Allan Poe’s Macabrery in the Modern Age
Starring Liam Aiken, Annalise Basso, and Joe Adler Written by Patrick Picard Directed by Patrick Picard In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator of this short story colors the moss-ridden, crumbling of an ancient mansion known as the House of Usher. The narrator responds to a letter and visits […] More
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13 SLAYS TILL XMAS Review – The Only Film Horror Fans Will Need To Watch This Festive Season
There aren’t too many Christmas-themed anthology horror films, and the newly released 13 Slays Till Xmas might just be one of the best entries the subgenre has to offer, and we mean that with all sincerity. The premise for for the anthology is that a small group of acquaintances meet in a bar on Christmas […] More
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CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER Review: Lurid Truth or a Lie of the Mind?
In many vampire films, the story usually takes place in a desolate castle or manor where a visitor has to travel several miles and, at times, over terrible terrain to visit the Count or some aristocratic equivalent. With large great rooms and cobwebbed corridors, the aristocrat uses his charms in order to stave off mortality […] More
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PAINTBALL MASSACRE Review–Fun-Filled Microbudget Mayhem
Starring Katy Brand, Lee Latchford-Evans, and Robert Portal Written by Chris Regan Directed by Darren Berry Reunions can be a pound of many painful pasts coupled with a ton of judgment of your present. Faced with the fear of losing control of their youth and, for the men, their masculinity, someone decides to have some […] More
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BACKWOODS Review: A Tale That’s Dark and Deep
Starring Isabella Alberti, Jeremy Sande, and Erin Lilley Written by Erin Lilley and Thomas Smith Directed by Thomas Smith Throughout the 1980s and into the 2000s, there has been a visual sundry of interesting findings in the arenas of the dark, wooded and swampy unknowns. From films such as The Evil Dead (1981 and its […] More
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ARCHENEMY Review – A Wild, Heartfelt Antihero Epic That Doesn’t Pack Enough Punch
Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer Written by Adam Egypt Mortimer Starring Joe Manganiello, Skylan Brookes, Zolee Grigs, Amy Seimetz In one of the year’s most inventive redemption stories, Archenemy is bubbling with imagination. For a cosmic tinged tale filled with so many grand ideas and infinite possibilities, there’s an indie ire and a strong beating […] More
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ANYTHING FOR JACKSON Review – The Power Of Love & The Power From Hell
Directed by Justin G. Dyck Written by Keith Cooper Starring Sheila McCarthy, Julian Richings, Konstantina Mantelos, Josh Cruddas With the holiday season upon us and strongly worded pleas not to travel to see family this year, you definitely don’t want to visit the grandparents in Anything For Jackson. They’re the types that love you a […] More
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BEAST MODE Review – Furious Furry Fun!
Starring C. Thomas Howell, James Duval, and Leslie Easterbrook Written by Drew Fortune, Chris W. Freeman, and Spain Willingham Directed by Chris W. Freeman and Spain Willingham In the annals of film history, there have been many horror-comedies that resort to meta mode. Movies such as Scott Glosserman’s Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie […] More
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WHAT LIES BELOW Review – A Surprisingly Slippery Thriller
Directed by Braden D. Duemmier Written by Braden D. Duemmier Starring Ema Horvath, Trey Tucker, Mena Suvari At first glance, director Braden Duemmier’s What Lies Below seems like a fairly straight forward, even somewhat generic rehash of gone by thrillers. We’ve seen the story before: an outsider uses his or her seductive power to pit […] More
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ANYTHING FOR JACKSON Review–Terrifying Demons Are Conjured in “Reverse Exorcism” Horror Movie
Starring Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings Written by Keith Cooper Directed by Justin Dyck Grief is mercurial and infinite. Past and present, grief ferries us to our lowest lows as we grieve for what we’ve lost and what we’ve not yet had. It alters our very biology, changing neural networks in ways once thought impossible, […] More
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THE CALL (aka CALL) Review–One of the Scariest Movies of 2020
Starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo Written by Lee Chung-hyun Directed by Lee Chung-hyun The Call, Netflix’s latest genre offering, is one of the most sensationally entertaining horror movies I’ve seen all year. An unassuming house of death and horror, The Call starts innocuously enough and slowly yet methodically grows ever more insidious in its […] More
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DON’T LISTEN Review–Netflix’s Latest Haunted House is Terrifying
Starring Rodolfo Sancho and Ramón Barea Written by Santiago Díaz Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández Not every horror movie needs to be earth-shatteringly profound. For every Midsommar or Get Out, sometimes a movie is content to coast along on the strength of its scares alone, never aiming to do much more than scare the willies […] More
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SHOCK TREATMENT Blu-ray Review – Witch Doctor by the Sea
Starring Annie Girardot, Alain Delon Directed by Alain Jessua Distributed by Severin Films Given the lengths to which some people are willing to go in the name of defying age, the premise for a film like Shock Treatment (1973) doesn’t seem all that outlandish. Cult-like devotees of a seaside rejuvenation resort turn a blind eye […] More
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CYBORG: DEADLY MACHINE Review – Saving The World, One Bowl Of Tomato Sauce At A Time
Starring Dave Trix, Aurelie Aloy, Fréderic Avila, and Cyril Basilée Directed by Mathieu Cailliere It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that Cyborg: Deadly Machine, which can now be viewed on YouTube, is the most insane film you’ll see all year, as it literally includes a scene where a guy armed only with a […] More
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THE SEVERED ARM Blu-ray Review – Slow Psycho on a Severing Spree
Starring Deborah Walley, Paul Carr, David G. Cannon, Marvin Kaplan Directed by Thomas S. Alderman Distributed by Vinegar Syndrome Long before slasher films ruled the screen and about a year before Bob Clark unofficially kicked off the subgenre with Black Christmas (1974) came a little-known sorta-slasher film called The Severed Arm (1973). Going by that […] More
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PLAYHOUSE Review–The Play’s the Thing
Starring Rebecca Calienda, Grace Courtney, and Mathilde Darmady Written by Fionn Watts and Toby Watts Directed by Fionn Watts and Toby Watts There are a lot of isolated, ancient castles that look beautiful, fascinating, and have a ghost or two, but what could go wrong? Far North Film and Devilworks latest contribution Playhouse give us […] More
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Who Goes There Podcast: Ep284 – DARKNESS FALLS w/ Tom Pestock (WWE Superstar Baron Corbin)
https://media.blubrry.com/dreadcentralpodcasts/p/audioboom.com/posts/7730512-ep284-darkness-falls-w-tom-pestock-wwe-superstar-baron-corbin.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | Subscribe to Who Goes There Podcast on iTunesHallo, idiote! We sure had a fun October, didn’t we? We covered some legendary film franchises for the first time in WGT history. It is safe to say that good fun was had by all. Well, […] More
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Who Goes There Podcast: Ep283 – GHOST SHIP & DEEP RISING
https://media.blubrry.com/dreadcentralpodcasts/p/audioboom.com/posts/7726394-ep283-ghost-ship-deep-rising-wgt.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | Subscribe to Who Goes There Podcast on iTunesCaptain’s log, Day 420 – Middle of the Ocean I’ve been at sea so long that I can no longer remember the feeling of solid ground beneath my feet. Spirits are down and the crew is […] More
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Blu-ray Review – A Classic Tale of Tragedy and Triumph
Starring Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough Directed by Terence Fisher Distributed by Scream Factory To date, Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera) has been adapted for film (in some form or another) nearly 30 times, though only a handful of those pictures attempted to […] More
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BLIND Review–Stylish Slasher is More Than Meets the Eyes
Starring Sarah French, Caroline Williams, and Tyler Gallant Written by Joe Knetter Directed by Marcel Walz There are several movies that pit the blind versus the sighted. Films such as Don’t Breathe, Hush, and Wait Until Dark deal with home invasion ending with different outcomes along with the terror and insane tension of two different […] More
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DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS 4K Review – The Softer Side of Vampire Life
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen, Andrea Rau Directed by Harry Kümel Distributed by Blue Underground Vampire films are often so mired in lore and/or bloodletting that it can feel awfully refreshing when one goes for a different vein. Director Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness (1971) deals with an infamously gory figure – Elizabeth […] More
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FrightFest 2020: SKYLIN3S Review – A Blockbuster VFX Spectacle And A Fitting Conclusion To The Sci-Fi Action Trilogy
Starring Lindsey Morgan, Daniel Bernhardt, Cha-Lee Yoon, James Cosmo, Rhona Mitra Directed by Liam O’Donnell FrightFest 2020 ended with a bang, with Skylin3s offering all the explosive action and VFX spectacles one would expect to see in a summer blockbusters instead of in a film playing at a horror festival. But we should inform you […] More
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FrightFest 2020: LITTLE WILLY Review – This Short Will Make You Question Your Sanity
Starring Andrew Bowser, Zach Galligan, Adrienne Barbeau Directed by Andrew Bowser One of the most memorable shorts to have played at this year’s FrightFest was Little Willy, which can now be viewed publicly on YouTube. Writer and director Andrew Bowser plays Adam Castle, a washed up former child actor who now makes a living from […] More
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MISTRESS OF BONES Review – An Exciting Horror/Action Hybrid That Leaves You Begging for More
Starring: Nicole Muñoz, Michel Issa Rubio, Edwin Perez, Gabriel Carter Written by: Shane McKenzie Directed by: Gigi Saul Guerrero Short films, when done right, have the ability to showcase a filmmaker’s talent for telling an all encompassing story within a small amount of time. It takes a lot of skill to make a great film […] More
