Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Okja) writes and directs Parasite (2019), a darkly comic thriller. Bong and screenplay co-writer Han Jin-won explore the intersection of those on opposite ends of the poverty and wealth…
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Review: John Constantine: Hellblazer #2
We’re now two-issues deep into the John Constantine: Hellblazer-revamp. Does the second issue continue the strengths of the relaunch, or does the team find themselves getting lost in the weeds? No major…
Review: The Grudge (2020)
Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Grudge (2020) is a reboot of the 2004 film of the same name, which itself was a remake of a Japanese horror film titled Ju-On:…
Review: Killadelphia #1
In essence, Killadelphia #1 is a new vampire horror series published by Image Comics set in a vampire-infested Philadelphia. To be more accurate, however, the full title for the current arc and…
Notes from the Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Red Christmas – Jack Frost
The second film of Red Christmas was the gloriously insane Jack Frost; and no, it’s not the Michael Keaton snow-dad movie. The movie is absolutely wacky as Hell and has the distinguishment…
Notes from the Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Red Christmas – Black Christmas
It’s another Joe Bob mini-marathon on Shudder, and this time it was just the sort of thing we love for the Holiday season… Christmas horror! Because what is more horrifying than Christmas?…
György Pálfi’s ‘Taxidermia’ – The Value In Being Sickened
I love body horror. I managed to convince my Aesthetics and European Philosophy professor to let me write my final essay on Kristeva’s abjection theory purely because I wanted to talk about…
Review: John Constantine: Hellblazer #1
We return to the occult adventures of John Constantine. This new series follows the one-shot that introduced him back into a world he had left long ago. A world where he hung…
Review: Revenge (2018)
Rape revenge films ask a lot from their audience. They are some of the most emotionally driven and violent horror movies, and this includes the 2018 Shudder Original Movie Revenge. Directed and written…
Review: Countdown (2019)
What if an app could tell you when you were going to die? That’s the central conceit of STX Entertainment’s Countdown and it pretty much delivers on that question in the laziest…