Fear Subsides in The Midnight Swim’s New Collectors Edition Blu-ray

If Yellow Veil Pictures were a baseball team, they’d be the team to bet on because they are batting a thousand. YVP consistently finds and releases some of the greatest genre, and other, films that are made by up-and-coming filmmakers. Their goal to present and preserve the finest of cinema around shows how much they […]

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Scream vs. Scream 5: Can a Requel Be Better Than Its Predecessor?

Warning: This article contains spoilers. One of the best things that can happen for a big-budget horror film is when it has the ability to dethrone mainstream movies, such was the case for Scream 5. While there is nothing inherently wrong with the big-budget superhero dumps that are made to cash in a quick buck […]

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Kevin Brockmeier’s the Ghost Variations Is Emotional and Nihilistic in the Best Ways Possible

When it comes to horror and horror-adjacent works, there is not always a need for it to be terrifying for it to be effective. Sometimes just using the backdrop of scary ideas and adding emotions into it can make a piece of work compelling. It wasn’t until a cold Christmas Eve day that I was […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Horror Shorts About Social Ills Will Creep Into You

To say I have been looking forward to the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is an understatement. The festival promotes horror that is directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. When I found out this information, it made me tremendously more excited, as it made me aware of the wide variety of work […]

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival: Time To Get Pissed off With These Wrathful Horror Shorts

What do sexual assaulter perpetrators and two kids who don’t want to leave their hometown have in common? Wrath! The second block of short film programming from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is wrath, and oh jeez, is there some wrath up in here! While this may be the shortest category out of all, […]

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