Many movies take on the feat of commentating on the genre they are creating in. Satire, the act of self aware humor, we aren’t actually...

Fall of 2009 feels simultaneously like two and twenty years ago; a distant lifetime away and also within reach. June of that year Facebook overtook Myspace as the most popular social network in America and the idea of a Fourth-Wave Feminism through the internet became a hot blog topic, both negative and positive. Amid this chaos bubbling and building beneath the surface Jennifer’s Body (2009) premiered and Hell officially became a teenage girl. Needy looking at Jennifer duri

A shallow dive into Justin Long's career in horror movies. Making an overall argument that Justin Long is a horror icon after watching...

Premise of RRH Franchise Marathons: Binge watching an entire franchise worth of content in a shortened period of time and then writing an...

Let me preface this by saying after watching the whole series of movies in the Hellraiser franchise it is one of my least favorite...

Prior to Paranormal Activity (2007) found footage success was limited to the first Blair Witch Project movie that premiered in 1999 with the caveat that the 2nd movie flopped hard. Like its predecessor in the subgenre the first Paranormal Activity movie relied heavily on guerrilla marketing. That term, guerrilla marketing, refers to marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing or straight up advertising despite being just that.

Initially I wanted to focus on only witchcraft and witches this summer when it comes to the horror genre, that has clearly changed....

On the surface The Skeleton Key (2005) comes off as an average horror thriller film of the time, taking audiences along to question the main character’s sanity and if supernatural elements could be the root cause. Kate Hudson portraying Caroline Ellis is a 25 year old who recently lost her dad while pursuing the roadie tour life which is the reason for her sudden career shift. For the pay of $1,000 a week she moves into this mansion to care for an elderly man but the job isn'

Available to watch now on Shudder by clicking here, Hellbender is a 2021 horror movie that bends tropes while creating a broad supernatural world. A protective mother and her adolescent daughter live in rural woods near mountains and bodies of water that they utilize. Living off of foraged plant life Izzy, portrayed by Zelda Adams, and her mother, portrayed by Toby Poser, play in a 2 person metal band together when Izzy isn’t being homeschooled or wandering the woods.

Set in Britain, His House is about 2 refugees, Rial portrayed by Wunmi Mosaku and Bol portrayed by Sope Dirisu, who are South Sudanese and from there travel through the English Channel from France to strive for a better life. On their journey they lose their daughter who drowns before making it. Both get temporary asylum and feel that their woes have ended but when they arrive it's sparsely furnished and dilapidated, junk and they've already faced racism on their way to thei

Has anyone else felt like the last few years have been worse than usual? As if someone unearthed an ancient curse and it descended upon us. The premise of this movie centers around a similar idea, that an ancient relic could bring hell to earth. The 8th Night came out in 2021 on Netflix, a South Korean movie directed by Kim Tae-hyoung. The main character, Park Jin-soo played by Lee Sung-min, is a former monk now turned construction worker whose destiny it is to stop the two e

Now a full-fledged subgenre with parameters and guidelines evolving in particular around the technology available now and how we use that tech. Back in '99 it didn't make sense for people to have a recording device out unless they needed to, placing large constraints out of the gate for the plots of these movies. As tech became intertwined with our everyday lives, to the extent that in Unfriended 2 it's believable that hackers can tap into the vast network of surveillance cam