In Theaters and Digital

You should NEVER ignore your instincts, folks.  Ever. Children of the Pines, a new thriller from Freestyle Digital Media, is a movie about real terror.  It’s also a movie about healing by way of a cult and the fierce bond that such damage necessitates as one family’s pursuit of guidance leads  ...

A killer pumpkin?!  Sure.  I’ll bite. It seems Hulu has their ducks in a row this Halloween season with the release of their original film, Carved, another original horror movie playing as part of “Huluween” this year.  The film, a horror comedy by way of a sentient pumpkin, is all about the  ...

“This is just the beginning.” The Secret Mechanic, a new short film from director Nicki Flores and writer David J. Paul, is an enticing slice of the criminal world’s cake as two brothers go after the money they are owed in a car garage.  The characters are well-written and the acting from ...

“Look, lady.  My parents were killed by werewolves last night, my grandfather talks to ghosts, and we’re in a town full of vampires.  Crazy’s not even an accurate word here.” Talk about the wild, wild west! As a fan of both the western genre and the horror genre ...

“Some town you got here, Officer.” In a lesson on how to open a Horror movie effectively, Blood Star weaves its morbid tale about a psychopathic sheriff with stunning strength.  The opening is a haunting masteract in establishing tone.  It’s a brief showdown during the midnight hours but ...

Believe it or not, we are approaching the 50th anniversary of one of TV’s biggest achievements in the world of comedy. That’s right, “SNL,” originally titled Saturday Night, the legendary variety show that launched the careers of such comedic geniuses as John Belushi, Chevy Chase,  ...

Falling Stars, the feature debut of director/producer duo Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki (featuring an original screenplay by Karpala and cinematography by Bienczycki) is a film about curses. With a focus on the things not to do with a witches’ body, it is both exciting  ...

Joker: Folie à Deux is both a testament to the ambitious nature of its creators and a cautionary tale about trying to marry too many disparate ideas into one film. The follow-up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Joker attempts to explore themes of identity, mental illness, and self-acceptance through  ...

Providing a human side to a serial killer is always a risky endeavor.  But that’s what transpires in The Deserving, a new horror film with a mute serial killer at its center as he wrestles with his own ghosts, drowning beneath the weight of so many bodies he’s collecting ...

Demented twists await in Visher, a new thriller from writer/director Isaac Rodriguez (Last Radio Call, Town Full of Ghosts)!  The found footage film, released from Silent Raven Films, is a remarkable effort of low budget cinema, offering audiences an inside look at a most hated occupation ...