Prepare yourself for an intense dose of gore with Demián Rugna's When Evil Lurks. This gripping film not only delves into the dark realm of possession but also treats your senses to mind-boggling visuals that are bound to make you avert your gaze from the screen in sheer shock. It's a thrilling
Lost in the Reel's video review for Vesper The new dystopian science-fiction film Vesper caught my eye many months ago when its first trailer was released. It is so rare for us to get original independent genre fare with visuals that look this good, so I was definitely intrigued. My
We Need to Do Something, based upon Max Booth III's book of the same name... Is another of this year’s horror films that is filmed nearly entirely in one location: a bathroom. And while some of these other bare-bones movies felt very limited in their approach, this crazy psycho-horror
This might be the least "video gamey" video game adaptation of all-time. Loosely based on the 2016 VR game, Werewolves Within, this movie shares a name, and maybe some of the werewolf tropes, but nothing else. Director Josh Ruben had a pretty tough decision to make with this film: do you lean into
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
