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The Sacrament Blu-ray Review (originally published 2014)
Generally speaking, indie horror movie machine Ti West makes movies about nothing. He fills the screen with hours of hip, good-looking...
Gabe Powers
Feb 5, 2020


Introducing: Genre Grinder Choice Cuts
As I slowly start uploading podcasts onto YouTube, I will also be creating videos of shorter excerpts taken from complete episodes, complete
Gabe Powers
Feb 4, 2020


Frankenweenie (2012) Blu-ray Review (originally published 2013)
Being a pseudo-remake, it was easy to assume that 2012’s Frankenweenie would be the ne plus ultra example of Tim Burton’s refusal to challen
Gabe Powers
Feb 4, 2020


Goodnight Mommy Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
Writer/director team Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s dramatic/fictional feature debut Goodnight Mommy (2015) considers the psychological...
Gabe Powers
Feb 3, 2020


It Follows Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
Postmodern horror didn’t die when the Scream series and its imitators ran out of steam at the end of the ‘90s. Post-millennial horror...
Gabe Powers
Jan 31, 2020


The Quiet Ones Blu-ray Review (originally published 2014)
John Pogue’s The Quiet Ones (2014) is the latest in a line of new films from former UK horror giant Hammer. It is a typical ‘revival’ movie
Gabe Powers
Jan 30, 2020


House by the Cemetery Blu-ray Review
In the early 1980s, Lucio Fulci was riding the highest high of his entire career. Following a successful run of spaghetti westerns, gialli
Gabe Powers
Jan 29, 2020


Edge of the Axe Blu-ray Review
Juan Piquer Simón’s Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, 1982) is the ne plus ultra of trashy Spanish slasher cash-ins, that much is
Gabe Powers
Jan 28, 2020


A Quiet Place Blu-ray Review (originally published 2018)
Late ‘90s popular horror was defined by ironic and slick postmodern sensibilities. Post-millennial popular horror was defined by paranoia...
Gabe Powers
Jan 27, 2020


Wolf Creek 2 Blu-ray Review (originally published 2014)
Greg McLean’s original Wolf Creek (2005) was one of the better films made during the ‘70s style revival of raw-nerve horror that took the...
Gabe Powers
Jan 24, 2020
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