Fuk’n Nuts is a 2023 American surrealist horror comedy short film, written and directed by Sam Fox. No stranger to the medium, Fox is known as the writer/director of the short horror films Unagi (2020), Bad Acid (2021), and as co-writer of the 2019 shortWowzers.   Sandy is a melancholy teenager who lives at home

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Becoming the Boogeyman is the riveting sequel to the New York Times Bestseller Chasing the Boogeyman, both written by Richard Chizmar. Chizmar, who is the owner and founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, has also co-authored Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Final Task with Stephen King; King having given Chizmar unprecedented creative license to write Gwendy’s

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Cobweb 2023

Coming in at under 90 minutes, Cobweb (2023) is a relatively star-studded little gem, perfectly suited for an entertaining bit of Halloween indulgence. Directed by Sam Bodin (who has Netflix TV Series Marianne to his name) Cobweb stars Cloverfield’s Lizzy Caplan and The Boys’ Anthony Starr, as oddly overbearing parents to a sensitive pre-teen named

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Film poster for Nope from writer/director Jordan Peele featuring a cloud with bunting hanging from it

Let’s get this out of the way now: This probably isn’t really a horror film. There are moments of terror and some incredibly unsettling sights, but Jordan Peele’s latest masterpiece fits more accurately into the realms of science fiction. While I will do my best not to ruin the nature of the movie, it is

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The generally agreed definition of a snuff film is a real (not staged) filmed murder. In some cases, it is viewed for arousal. However, this is somewhat incorrect, as by this definition, any video depicting the death of a person, purposeful or accidental, can fall under this moniker depending on the viewer. The term, in

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Detention (2011)

Imagine if, in the early 1980s, nascent film directors John Hughes and Wes Craven met up with venerable science fiction author Ray Bradbury at a Northern California artist’s retreat. There, between the backdrop of the Santa Cruz mountains and the turbulent Pacific Ocean, perhaps over a fine Merlot and maybe some clandestine psychotropic herbs, the

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Thorns (2023) is an American sci-fi horror film written and directed by Douglas Schulze. Well-versed behind the camera, Douglas is most known as the writer/director of such films as Hellmaster (1992), The Rain (2009), and The Dark Below (2015); having worked with some respectable members of the acting community, including David Carridine and John Saxton,

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Dark Windows 2023

Dark Windows is a 2023 American horror written by Ulrvik Kraft and directed by Alex Herron in his first feature-length film. Three teenagers, who were all involved in the fatal car accident that killed their friend, head to a remote farmhouse to grieve and overcome their recent trauma. It quickly becomes clear, however, that someone holds

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August Underground is a 2001 extreme found footage film, written and directed by Fred Vogel with additional writing from Allen Peters. The film was produced by TOETAG Pictures with effects from TOETAG SFX, whose formation was retroactive after the creation of August Underground and its first sequel August Underground’s Mordum. In 2006, the two companies

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Known for his recent, boundary-pushing entries in the extreme cinema genre, Jonathan Doe is a writer/director/producer most notable for his Erotic Grotesque Nonsense series of films, including Barf Bunny (2021), The Degenerates (2021), and Defilement of a Porcelain Doll (2022), which explore a whole host of different paraphilia in a bold and unflinching manner. Jonathan

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