Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lonely teen discovers her family’s ties to witchcraft. REVIEW: Witchcraft is a mysterious concept. To some, it’s about Halloween stories and costumes. To others, it’s a dangerous curse that can be mistaken for a gift. Discover how twisted this curse can get in “Hellbender” which made its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins. REVIEW: Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Jake Weber and countless other fantastic actors in a twisted tale of ghosts and trauma? Yes, please. “What Josiah Saw” made its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival and the dark tone was …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dave reluctantly pretends to be the manager of Hotel Poseidon, where fungus covers the walls and comments such as “faded glory” and “has seen better times” completely fall short to describe this establishment. He wanders the corridors of his personal Overlook Hotel like a zombie, being a passive spectator to what happens around him – whether …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass? REVIEW: Winter has frozen over l’Ile-aux-Paons (Peacock Island), in the middle of a scorching summer with the world …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets REVIEW: David Bruckner is a director who has been gaining momentum over the past decade. Starting with “The Signal”, he has gone on to direct segments in both “V/H/S” and “Southbound” in addition to getting much praise for “The Ritual”. While we anticipate his directorial …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind. REVIEW: How would you react if you woke up inside a metallic pod, barely bigger than your body, tubes running in and out of your face, and at a loss …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends are stalked by a family of killers on a vintage cruise ship.

The prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival is just around the corner, and although the majority of it will still be online (geo-locked to Canadian residents only; sorry), like last year (damn you, Covid!), there will nonetheless be a few special in-person screenings at the festival (usually, Fantasia takes place (mainly) at Concordia University’s facilities, but will be returning to its …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When loneliness consumes your life, things may get weird for you, and dangerous for others. You’ll discover just what that means in Jill Gevargizian’s “The Stylist”. REVIEW: Claire (Najarra Townsend; 2013’s “Contracted”) is a very reserved hair stylist in a hip-looking salon. She doesn’t seem to have any friends, she doesn’t seem to socialize very much, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An underfunded university professor is on track to build the world’s first bio-computer using genetically engineered bacteria when something goes terribly wrong. Now that something is top of the food chain. REVIEW: Zombie movies come and go, but rarely do they become ground-breaking cult or hit films. Independent zombie features get produced by the shovel each …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in Spiral, the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. REVIEW: The torturous traps inspired by John Kramer are back on the silver screen this week-end. “Spiral: From the Book of Saw” makes its gory return to the “Saw” franchise with Darren Lynn Bousman (director of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path. REVIEW: It’s time to hush up once again as the intimidating, blind, and hyper-sensitive to noise …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of ghosts, crime and horror. REVIEW: What happens when a crime sets off a curse that transforms a helpless family into demonic ghosts? A pretty pitiful movie; that’s what happens. “The Key”, directed by Markus F. Adrian and Gedeon Burkhard, demonstrates this sad attempt at a supernatural concept. A family is brutally butchered at …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath. REVIEW: Slasher films come and go as a sub-genre of the vast horror category. As a matter of fact, the slasher sub-genre is probably the sub-category …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Warrens investigate a murder that may be linked to a demonic possession. REVIEW: The Conjuring universe is back on the silver screen with its third chapter in the original series of movies, releasing the Warrens’ real-life cases back onto the world. The first two Conjuring films, in my opinion, slapped the horror community right in …