Tag: film review
Online streamer ‘The Dark Lord of Love’s Park’ interaction with the online world consists of arguing with his chat, drinking himself into a stupor, and performing grotesque tasks for money. Or, in internet lingo, A lolcow. For kids unfamiliar with this term, a lolcow exists in the online space and makes their money off a
An Irish musician, played by writer, director, and editor Richard Waters, heads into the woods to record a music album. Using the inspiration of nature and a break from the chaos of the real world, the trip soon turns sour when the musician encounters a series of weird instances. Hearing dogs and sensing a constant
Who knew queer mommy vlog culture could be this unhinged? The Rebrand (2024), written and directed by Kaye Adelaide and with additional writing from Nancy Webb, is a wickedly campy descent into influencer hell—a horror-satire hybrid that gleefully peels back the pastel filter of curated online personas to reveal something grotesquely hilarious underneath. Nicole
The Unsolved Love Hotel Murder Case Incident is a 2024 Japanese found-footage horror film written and directed by Guy and Dave Jackson. An Osaka-based, English-born director, the mononymous Guy is known as the director of such films as The Sound of Summer (2022), as well as the short films The Rope Maiden (2013), Difficulty Breathing
Dream Eater is a 2024 Canadian found footage horror film written and directed by Alex Lee Williams, Jay Drakulic, and Mallory Drumm. After her partner injures himself during a bout of parasomnia, filmmaker Mallory (Mallory Drumm) takes her boyfriend, Alex (Alex Lee Williams), to an isolated cabin in the Laurentian mountains to document his behavior.
2 Girls 1 Gut is a 2024 extreme horror short written and directed by Guy. A British ex-pat filmmaker based in Osaka, Japan, Guy has made a name for himself in the J-horror genre with titles such as Difficulty Breathing (2020), The Sound of Summer (2022), and the found footage horror The Unsolved Love Hotel
Eldorado is a 2022 extreme road movie written by Andrea Cavaletto, and directed by Domiziano Christopharo. Not the first time working together, Andrea and Domiziano have collaborated on a number of different titles in the past, such as Xpiation (2017), The Transparent Woman (2015), and Doll Syndrome (2014) to name a few. A cave, a
I have spent a significant amount of my tenure with Grimoire of Horror reviewing the latest films of Takashi Shimizu—the man responsible for the sensational Ju-On film series—and although none of his newer films have affected me as much as his earlier work (Ju-On: The Curse (2000) and Marebito (2004) specifically come to mind), I
La Perdicion is a 2021 Spanish extreme horror film written and directed by Domiziano Christopharo. The film is loosely based on American serial killer Robert Hansen, known in the media as the “Butcher Baker”, who abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women between 1971 and 1983 before being apprehended by police After losing interest
Neu Mirrors is a 2024 Japanese short horror film written and directed by Keishi Kondo. The film is a direct sequel to Keishi’s 2022 feature-length horror drama New Religion (2022), picking up moments after its explosive conclusion. There remain stories yet to be told after New Religion. It begins with Mizuki waking up in a