Hailing out of India, Vasan Bala is planning to kick Midnight Madness audience’s asses when The Man Who Feels No Pain World Premieres at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival. In this Bollywood-infused action film, a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish […]
Ask anyone that’s taken the plunge and they’ll tell you…Marriage is fucking terrifying. That’s exactly what’s at the core of writer/director Eli Thomas‘ Domestic Horror. What starts off as a silly, self-aware Scream parody slowly turns into a wry commentary on the marriage-industrial complex and how on some level it kills us all. Leaning more […]
Mere weeks before The Predator arrives in theaters, we’ll meet The Dawnseeker. Premiering September 4 (VOD) from Uncork’d Entertainment, Justin Price’s new sci-fi horror actioner pits five mercenaries against a bootleg Predator creature… “2245, the Earth’s sun has dwindled and no longer provides the energy needed to sustain human life. Five hired mercenaries travel to an uncharted […]
While Gaspar Noé has never tackled the horror genre straight on, almost all of his films dabble in it. From Irreversible to Enter the Void, Noé is behind some of the most punishing cinematic experiences I’ve ever had to endure. At least with his latest, Climax, it’s being shrouded by a wild dance party. Described as a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction […]
Much like all of our favorite horror icons, the genre is so hot that even when a studio does everything wrong, the films find a way to survive. This Friday saw the release of not one, but two major fuck-ups, both mishandled by their studio brass. Sony Screen Gems’ Slender Man (review), directed by Sylvain White, was […]
Slender Man was primed to become the next horror icon. Birthed out of a paranormal photo contest on the Something Awful forum, the Creepypasta character is one of the few that had the potential to penetrate through general audiences and enter into pop culture. The character already started to gain awareness following reports that violent acts were […]
Three years after debuting cult favorite Turbo Kid at Sundance Film Festival, filmmaking trio RKSS (Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell) returned with their latest feature, Summer of 84, which our own Fred Topel said it “hits the nostalgic sweet spot.” A coming of age thriller that follows a group of teenage friends that […]
Discerning genre geeks face a weird dilemma when it comes to shark movies: basically, Jaws is one of the best movies ever made (obviously) and the basic concept of “shark vs. people” is of course very appealing to those who like horror, action, or quality b-movies in general. So why are decent shark movies so […]
What do you get when you combine a stylish track with grisly horror violence? Mumbo Jumbo. Ryan Henry brings us this week’s intriguing installment of World of Death. Set against the backdrop of a gore-gous lake and endless forest, this film depicts the grisly events that befall a lovely couple. To say more would spoil […]
Jake Busey has carved out his own career in Hollywood, but this fall he literally follows in his father’s footsteps. In The Predator, Busey plays the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character. Predator 2 failed to break even at the U.S. box office in 1990, and subsequent films didn’t really reference it, but The […]