I am ALWAYS skeptical of Netflix’s estimates of how much I will like a film. There have been 2-star estimates that I’ve given 4 stars. There have been 4-star estimates that I’ve hated. But when they think I’ll like a title 5/5 stars (or at least over 4.5) it’s typically something that I will … More When Animals Dream (2014) – REVIEW
Sticking with a body horror theme for this week, I got to thinking about some of the great (read: most disturbing) body horror films that may have slipped under the average (American) horror fan’s radar. Possibly because they didn’t get a wide release, didn’t get much buzz, featured subtitles (i know, i know, reading is … More In My Skin (2002) – REVIEW
Writing about the After Dark Horrorfest got me thinking about The Abandoned. It was part of the After Dark Horror Fest first year lineup of films. In fact, it was the first ADHF movie I saw. It set the bar unrealistically high for the “8 Films to Die For” program (now the official title of … More The Abandoned (2006) – REVIEW
Hidden (aka Skjult) is part of the “After Dark Horrorfest” (i’m going to call this ADHF, if you don’t mind) line of films – long defunct but resurrected this year as “8 Films to Die For” (previously, the tagline for ADHF). Hidden was in the lineup in the fourth year of this noble effort. Why … More Hidden (2009) – REVIEW
I’ve seen a lot of weird Japanese films. It seems that that Japan has their own genre of films that variously feature spraying blood, brutal beatings, intense bullying, rape, incest, gore, misogyny, copious amounts of smoking, pedophilia, characters who laugh at inappropriate times, and schoolgirl panties. Rarely, do the films feature even half of … More The World of Kanako (2015) – REVIEW
Remember when you would pick out a movie based on its cover art? No? Well, I feel sorry for you then. Because the excitement and gleeful anticipation that you feel from finding a VHS or DVD with a cool looking cover is awesome. And it typically lasts exactly as long as it takes to … More REVIEW – Let Us Prey (2014)
Thale is another movie that Netflix thought I would LOVE. Despite getting burned over-and-over, I still fall for that star system time and again. And Thale had an estimated rating of 4.4/5. How could I resist? The synopsis sounded interesting enough. You’ve got your crime/trauma scene cleaning crew, your Norwegian mythology, your “beautiful … More Thale (2012) – REVIEW
AKA – Thesis Tesis is another in a long line of movies that I get in the mail and wonder, “What the hell is this?” This phenomenon is a product of late night, bleary-eyed expeditions through lists of underrated/underappreciated/little-known/foreign/etc. genre films. It makes getting the mail all the more exciting. (by that, i mean, … More REVIEW – Tesis (1996)
I’d been meaning to check out The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears for a while but every time I got to it in my queue, I breezed right past it. Maybe because the directors’ (Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani) previous feature, Amer, bored me. (i’m just not Euro/pervy enough to really get into the sexual awakening of a … More The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) – REVIEW
I was in Montreal this past weekend. A weekend when, if I were in Chicago, I could have attended The Massacre, a 24-hour horror film marathon. Either Montreal was not having a 24-hour horror marathon, or I am inept at searching for such things among French language websites. I did find P=ωρ L’Energie Sombre (pronounced, P=omega•rho … More P=ωρ L’Energie Sombre (2015) – REVIEW
No Real Danger 