Tag: 4.5 stars

  • VFW Review by Jonny Numb

    VFW: Visceral Terror VFW is one of the great siege films, up there with Night of the Living Dead, Assault on Precinct 13, and Green Room. The best efforts of this subgenre waste few beats in the lead-up to the inciting incident. Within a matter of minutes, VFW gives an endearing introduction to our rugged protagonists at…

  • Top 10 UK Horror Films by Crash

    UK Horror: The Best of 300 Features After indulging in 300 UK horror films, finding the best of the bunch was easy. Yes, there are three co-productions with other countries, but the UK spread-headed each project. Notably missing from the Top 10 Uk horror films are the oft beloved Hammer Studio features. Although my favorite…

  • Thelma by Jonny Numb

      Thelma When critics championed Hereditary earlier this year, I could only think about how so many other horror films have brought insights into familial (dys)function far better – and with greater understanding of how families work – than Ari Aster’s over-rated feature debut. I was tempted to make my Hereditary review a laundry list of comparisons…

  • The Case for Wendy Torrance by Billy Crash

    Enter Wendy Torrance Wendy Torrance doesn’t receive much love in the film version of The Shining, and that’s a mistake that needs to be “corrected.” While many love Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, hatred stems from fans who don’t appreciate the director’s deviation from Stephen King’s boring, drawn out novel that’s 300 pages too long. Others…

  • Mandy reviewed by Jonny Numb

    Mandy: The Hellscape We Create “I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious and making us all pay a higher psychic price.”– Bill Hicks In Mandy, the villains’ driving motivation is entitlement – no different than the current climate in American politics, with its trickle-down…