REVIEW: Foe (2023)
Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn't quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist. Foe is a psychological thriller
DIY Art-Punk Video Tape Transgression
The Ugly, Inspiring Shot-On-Video Horror of Charles Pinion by Josh Lewis One of the major drivers of the undying affection for low-budget and independent genre/exploitation cinema is its historical value as a space for artists on the margins of
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
The Spectacle of carnage in Game of Thrones and Shin Godzilla by Sean T. Collins Spectacle is the language through which art communicates when the vocabulary of the everyday fails us. Fantastic fiction, an inherent trafficker in the unreal, says as much
REVIEW: Suitable Flesh Pays Demonic Tribute to a Grandmaster of Goop
Joe Lynch channels the late, great Stuart Gordon for a bout of Lovecraftian psychosexual horror by Cian Tsang It’s felt for a while now as if there’s been a blight metastasizing through the horror genre, threatening to destroy so much
Dream Demon: Between Fantasy and Nightmare
Harley Cokeliss's 1988 horror-fantasia straddles the line between art and exploitation, with profound results by Cian Tsang When Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s opulent imagining of the existential crisis of Princess Diana, floated onto the big screen back in 2021, much of the
The “Banned” Film Coming Soon To a Theater Near You
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker, one year later. by Lindsay Lee Wallace “The movie was never banned,” director, writer, editor, and actor Vera Drew explains patiently, emphatically, and for what seems like the hundredth time. “We were able to have our world
REVIEW: ‘The Beast’ Weds Arthouse Aesthetics to Epic Sci-fi Horror
Director Bertrand Bonello brings stylistic flare and formal experimentation to an ambitious, genre-defying melodrama by Josh Lewis Part of Blood Knife's TIFF 2023 coverage (Note: Spoilers in the last 2 paragraphs. You've been warned!) In a letter to fellow writer Morton
REVIEW: ‘When Evil Lurks’ Is A Gruesome Shot in the Arm for Possession Horror
Argentine filmmaker Demián Rugna's combines gruesome, Fulci-esque visuals and fine-tuned bleakness by Josh Lewis Part of Blood Knife's TIFF 2023 coverage (NOTE: Spoilers at the end. You've been warned!) The churches have long been dead and there’s a rotten infestation at
Santa Sangre: Finding Salvation in Sacrilege
The surreal horror masterpiece finds religious ecstasy in the profane by Cian Tsang When we first lay our eyes on Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky), he almost seems more bestial than human, as if he’s some organism that’s only just managed to drag himself
Improving Strategic Outcomes for the 14th Black Crusade with Applied Management Methodologies
In the grim darkness of the far future, there exists only synergy by Consultor Primis Kurtorian Schillerius4th Conclave, Applied Meta-Efficiency Departmentum Proper organizational dynamics remain a challenge well into the 40th Millennium. Despite significant advances in a wide variety of technological