Category: Movies
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Infirmary
Found footage is a hit or miss genre. It’s really easy to make, but it’s also really easy to make poorly. Even when you do it well, it’s still not everyone’s cup of tea. Infirmary isn’t a bad found footage horror film, but it’s also far from the best I’ve seen. It definitely gets style…
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Tragedy Girls
This one’s been sitting in my queue for the better part of the last decade. It got in there mostly on merits of the cast and the fun idea posed by the trailer. Tragedy Girls is about a pair of BFFs navigating their last year of high school while also trying to make a bit…
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Street Fighter (2026)
I’ve seen review headlines calling Street Fighter a mess. And, well, it very well may be. But it’s a damn fun mess, knows exactly what it’s trying to do, and got everyone in it on the same page to deliver a ton of wild fun. Yes, the plot “progression” is a bit disjointed and makes…
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Cemetery Man
Cemetery Man was one of those films I caught kind of randomly on cable during college. It’s a weird one, for sure, but I’ve always loved it. It tells the increasingly bizarre story of a graveyard keeper, Francesco Dellamorte, who’s found that his job now entails putting the dead back in the ground after they…
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V/H/S/Mixtape
The V/H/S franchise has been a staple of spooky season on Shudder for a while now. I look forward to it every year. There’s always at least one good bit among the anthology of found-footage bits. This year’s feels particularly weak in some ways, but very creative in others. The overall theme, as could be…
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Good Boy
I’ve had this one in my queue since it hit streaming last year. I’ve been saving it for this spooky season viewing. And I am not disappointed. Good Boy is a horror film from the point of view of a dog. That includes dreams the dog has. It’s super creative and well done. Of course,…
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Hellcat
When I saw the trailer for Hellcat, I was about 80% sure that it was some sort of werewolf film. Apparently, I had it backward. It’s about 20% a werewolf film. And a very different kind of werewolf film, at that. For most of the runtime, this is “just” a bit of a character study,…
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Carrie (1976)
This week, a new iteration of this classic will be hitting streaming… so it seemed as good a time as any to revisit this classic. Doubly so when I realized it was also its 50th anniversary. By now, everyone knows the story of Carrie. It’s been parodied, riffed on, remade, and ripped off plenty in…
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The Love Witch
Until I looked a bit more closely at the listing for this, I didn’t realize it was just a decade old. All the stills and clips I saw looked exactly like a late 60s/early 70s flick. But, no, this is from 2016. The Love Witch is flagged as a horror film, but what it really…
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Black Chariot (2026)
Over the last few years, I’ve backed a handful of indie film projects via crowdfunding campaigns. Black Chariot is one of the films done by The British Horror Studio/Hex Studios, which is one of the groups I’ve tossed more than a few bucks at. Their thing, generally, is make some classic feeling films. Between that…
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Earth vs The Spider
Ah, the classics of American International Pictures… nothing quite like them. The Spider is one of their giant creature features, made with copious amounts of composite shots, theremin-accented music, and familiar settings from the Universal Studios back lot to Carlsbad Caverns. If you’re not familiar with American International, you’re not familiar with a number of…
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Parasomnia
There are some films that I like that I’m obviously not qualified to fully dive into analysis of. This feels like one of those films. I think I get where it’s coming from, but what I think only matters in a tangential way, because the meaning I’m seeing is deeply rooted in a lot of…