There are some records that ask for your attention. Festering Blight takes it. It was well after midnight when I hit play, figuring I'd sample a track or two before calling it a night. Forty-seven minutes later, I was staring into  ...

There’s something deliciously off about Normal, the kind of off that makes you grin before things inevitably go sideways.  Directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Derek Kolstad (The Nobody and a couple of the ...

Provocative and psychological, Deep Red remains an incredible statement on the beauty of film as an art form. More than fifty years after its release, Dario Argento's masterpiece hasn't lost an ounce of its power. If anything, ...

From its hellish production to its being eclipsed by Star Wars when originally released, and long before reality television turned impossible roads into entertainment, there was William Friedkin’s Sorcerer. This might be one ...

I've been hard on Christopher Nolan for years. Not because I ever questioned his intelligence—few filmmakers working today possess his technical command or his appetite for spectacle—but because I often feel like I'm admiring  ...

Certainly not by mistake, Young Washington arrives at an absolutely perfect moment. America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and Angel Studios—the crowd-funding outfit best known for distributing and producing  ...

James Whale. Boris Karloff. The year after Frankenstein was released. Need I say anything more about why, even today, The Old Dark House absolutely slaughters its audience? The tension and the creep factor are ratcheted ...

I first saw Dario Argento's Phenomena when it was released here in the United States as Creepers. That version—heavily edited by nearly 30 minutes (for no other reason than to save Americans from actually thinking)—was essentially ...