What better time is there for horror movies or creepy psychothriller novels than midsummer when you’re outside and wading through yet another hot and humid day.  Inside with the A/C going full blast, I sat down with Peter Swanson’s HER EVERY FEAR,  a true page-turner following in the long line

It’s tough to design a horror movie monster these days. People today are harder to scare than ever. Where once audiences cowered at the sight of a pale fellow with sharp teeth, or a particularly hairy guy, the modern viewer has a more sophisticated palette. Your average moviegoer isn’t afraid

MAYHEM played at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival this month. My schedule did not allow me to go see it when it played in the theatre, so I watched it at home.  Before I delve deeper (and reveal some spoilers) I will say this: If you get the chance

THE VILLAINESS (originally titled Ak-Nyeo) opens with one of the most badass fight scenes in recent memory. Seriously, the opening number (which feels like a single first-person shot) opens with such fire and fury that it’s almost nauseating. I mean that in the best of ways. Playing at this year’s

To wrap up the first season of 66 HORROR FLIX we will be going out with a bang. Today’s episode covers the David Bowie starring vampire thriller THE HUNGER. For those not familiar, THE HUNGER is the story of a love triangle that develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire,

Toronto After Dark Film Festival has officially wrapped, and as always they’ve brought to light some of the best examples of independent horror cinema from around the world. One of the more subversive offerings this time around is the superb vampire comedy EAT LOCALS. Not subversive in terms of being

LOWLIFE is a film that gives you a lot to like, but it isn’t without its difficulties. Playing as a part of this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival, it’s definitely one of the stranger films in the program line-up. It’s not perfect, but there’s enough there to keep you

SERPENTS LULLABY  is the second short I am reviewing and whew! What a relief to get a beautiful little film to discuss. In a gothic manor set outside of town in old Quebec, Canada, lives a reclusive woman dressed in black garb with a distinguishingly lavish scarf that ties up

HAPPY DEATH DAY is a film that on a quick glance of the trailer could be written off as just another one of the countless whodunit slashers that employs your standard package of the straight-from-central-casting crew of beautiful, white, sun-kissed, cult-like/abusive levels of narcissist personality disorder that are gift-wrapped nicely

Today’s 66 HORROR FLIX celebrates the most famed monster in film history, Frankenstein! Or, as he is known in the 1931 film FRANKENSTEIN, “The Monster”.  What makes this episode extra special is that it is filmed before a live audience at El Camino College to celebrate the bicentennial of Mary