31 Days of Horror: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival – “Empathy, Inc.”
BHFF selection ‘Empathy, Inc.’ overcomes its budget limitation by focusing on character to tell its virtual reality horror story.
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31 Days of Horror: ‘The Book of Birdie’ Examines the Mysticism of Faith and Blood
‘The Book of Birdie’ is a mystical horror fantasy, dripping with blood, but not in the way most genre horror fans would expect.
31 Days of Horror: Venom is a Flawed, but Fun Time at the Movies
Venom suffers from a slow start, but once the film gets rolling in the second act, it becomes a fun and entertaining addition to the superhero genre.
31 Days Of Horror: Can Evrenol’s ‘Housewife’ is a Respectably Ambitious Step Forward
Can Evrenol is nothing if not a student of the horror game, and his new film Housewife plays out like a highlight reel of his influences.
31 Days of Horror: Nicolas Cage Expert Lindsay Gibb on ‘Mandy’
In this instalment of 31 Days of Horror, Nicolas Cage expert Lindsay Gibb looks at the actor’s latest foray into the horror genre, Mandy.
TIFF 2018 – Die By the Blade: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Killing
Killing is a movie featuring samurais that isn’t so much of a samurai movie as it is a Shinya Tsukamoto movie that has samurais in it.
TIFF 2018 – Prairie Horror Companion: The Wind
Set in the early days of the American frontier, The Wind feels like an intriguing short stretched out to feature film length.
TIFF 2018 – Of Wolf and Man: Jeremy Saulnier returns with Hold the Dark
Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier is behind three of the greatest films of the past five years: Blue Ruin, Green Room and, now, Hold the Dark.
Predator Week: The Bitter Guy on ‘Predator 2’ (1990)
This week at BBP we’re counting down to the release of Shane Black’s The Predator by examining the history of the franchise. Today I’m going to look at Predator 2, one of the least loved sequels in history.
TIFF 2018 – Nightmares in Analog: Peter Strickland’s In Fabric
With In Fabric, Peter Strickland has created a deliriously lavish work that’s certainly a highlight of his growing collection.
Review: ‘Ocean’s 8’ is an Easy Score on Home Video
While Ocean’s 8 is fairly familiar heist territory from a story perspective, the film is extremely watchable thanks to the performances from all the leads
Review: ‘The Nun’ is a Movie That We Saw
Just because a movie is a monster hit at the box office doesn’t mean it is good, and nothing this year proves that quite like ‘The Nun.’