I’d like to share a different sort of review today. It’s no secret that I am an avid AGFA supporter. AGFA’s upcoming release of THE FILMS OF SARAH JACOBSON may be their best release yet. While not horror or “genre”, I don’t remember the last time I spent time with a release that felt this … More Buy it or Die: The Films of Sarah Jacobson
I hate to generalize, but: If you didn’t like The Babadook, you’re a sexist monster. Just kidding. I’m sorry, I just get really passionate when a film does a decent job at representing women. Sometimes I forget we have feelings other than, “I hope that boy texts me back,” and watching a film like The … More The Babadook: Moms Are People, Too
Let me start this off by making an admission: I am not a bug person. Cover me in in snakes or mice and this animal lover will be in hog heaven; but if I see a cockroach I will BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND. It’s just too many legs. No one needs that many … More The Bay: Environment Horror
As a language purist (read: snob) I had to follow up The Last Exorcism with The Last Exorcism: Part II because, well… Absurdity. Did the creator get the same misinformation being fed to the people who made five Final Destination movies? Do terminal words mean nothing anymore?! Anyway. It would seem the creative team got … More Ode to the Underrepresented Actor
The Last Exorcism opens with a scene of the protagonist lathered up and shaving an already clean-shaven face, so it really could only have gone up from there in terms of making sense. And it did. Mostly. The film came out in 2010 and I saw it in theatres here in New York City, remembering … More The Last Exorcism: Doc Martens Are A Gateway To Possession
“Well, actually…” is the shortest and scariest horror story when you’re a woman: The daily encounters with men full of conspiracy theories about aliens, big brother, and the government secretly poisoning our food, dudes who call us sweetheart and princess, despite any evidence that we’re sweet or royalty, in an effort to demean our intelligence. The guys … More 10 Cloverfield Lane: When Mansplainers Turn Out To Be Correct
If you’re looking for a solid hour and forty-three minutes of extremely graphic gore and some good old-fashioned nonsense: The Midnight Meat Train is definitely for you. If, however, like me, you are exhausted by watching yet another film that leaves equality out of the equation: You may want to skip this one. This is … More The Midnight Meat Train: Status Quo On The Orient Express
Thick accents, period costumes, stories of female oppression, and talking goats? This. Film. Has. EVERYTHING. The Witch calls itself a New England Folk Tale and, with most of its dialogue and content derived from actual historical documents, director Robert Eggers handed us a slice of pre-Salem, puritanical patriarchy straight from the goat’s mouth. Eggers has … More The Witch: Devil Goats and Feminism
Is it scary? If you’re looking for a nail-biter, skip Out of the Dark. While everyone loves hoards of creepy children in bandages, it’s hardly new; especially when it revolves around the trope of child-in-constant-peril. Consider this a spin-off of Trey’s Let Me Watch That For You, because from a horror perspective… You’d be better … More Out of the Dark: Collateral Damage
“Watch Housebound,” they said. “It’s feminist,” they said. I can safely say, after one hour and 49 minutes of watching with furrowed brow, I have no idea what just happened. Marketed as a horror-comedy, I definitely see the absurdist themes, but at the end of the day it felt like the movie was trying to … More Housebound: Clarification is Key
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