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Flora by Crash
Flora: Eco-horror If you love the sub-genre of eco-horror films and science fiction, consider Canada’s 2017 independent venture, Flora. Written, produced, and directed by Sasha Luis Vukovic, Flora follows a group of university student botanists into an unchartered forest. The year is 1929, and they are off to connect with their professors and other researchers…
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It Chapter Two by Jonny Numb
It Chapter Two: An Eerie Nostalgia Over Labor Day weekend, I was cleaning and packing up the very last of my personal belongings at my former apartment. I loved the building, and the tenants were a friendly, wide-ranging mix of cultures and ages. With the surfaces polished and the contents of the fridge stuffed into…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Piercing
Piercing Pesce Style When it comes to writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, there’s a reason it hasn’t made the rounds amongst major horror fans… After all, Pesce is the man behind the disturbing and surreal Eyes of My Mother that left many audience more than disconcerted. In his Sophomore effort, Pesce accomplishes something that Ana Lily…
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Butterfly Kisses by Jonny Numb
Butterfly Kisses is Haunting Beauty At their best, horror films confirm our worst fears and stimulate our imaginations, whether in the form of mythic creatures, time-tested folklore, or the paranoid notions that rattle around in the collective unconscious. They make something that could otherwise be laughed at into something real. That said, a…
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Suspiria (2018) by Jonny Numb
(This review alludes to certain details regarding the ending of Suspiria2018. If you haven’t yet seen the film, consider this your SPOILER alert.) Suspiria: A Vulgar Display of Power? After pondering it for three months, I think I understand the excess-driven climax of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria. It involves a character amassing the full force of her…
