There are few places more naturally suited to a ghost story than an empty theater. The seats facing a darkened stage, the curtains hiding spaces we cannot quite see, dressing rooms filled with the res...
Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom....
There is something immediately appealing about a horror movie that understands Halloween as more than a date on the calendar. Ben Sottak’s Hallowarrior takes its end-of-the-world premise, throws it in...
Producer David F. Friedman and director Byron Mabe occupy one of those peculiar corners of exploitation cinema where enthusiasm consistently outruns money, good taste, and occasionally basic narrative...
Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom....
Child begins with a question that sounds almost too easy: how far would you go to save your dying son? Most parents would answer without hesitation—any distance, any cost, any sacrifice. Writer-direct...
There are horror movies about killer dolls, and then there is Dolls , a movie that looks at the inherent creepiness of tiny porcelain people staring at you from a shelf and says, correctly, those litt...
Nearly three decades after The Blair Witch Project helped permanently alter the language of low-budget horror, some of the people responsible for that film return to the found-footage format with The...
There are movies that predict the future, movies that warn us about the future, and movies that assume the future will involve a human short-order cook beating the living shit out of rubber aliens for...
By the power of Grayskull! There are movies we defend because they are secretly better than their reputations, and then there are movies we defend because their flaws have somehow become inseparable f...
Apparently, the West wasn't wild enough already, so Universal gave it a vampire. And somehow Curse of the Undead works considerably better than that description has any right to suggest. Watching it i...
Theta Pi or die! Released into the post- Scream wasteland of 2009, Sorority Row arrived at precisely the wrong moment. Audiences had grown tired of beautiful young people trading sarcastic insults whi...
Hospitals are fucking creepy. I don't care how much money they spend on soothing paint colors, cheerful artwork, or those little signs reminding everyone that healing happens here. Nobody wants to be...
For years, Reel Reviews has been where I write about other people’s work—movies I love, movies I hate, filmmakers who know exactly what they’re doing, filmmakers who apparently misplaced the instructi...
Before he went to the hood, went to space, went to Vegas and somehow kept coming back for more gold, the Leprechaun was just a pissed-off little Irish monster terrorizing Jennifer Aniston and anyone f...
