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SALOUM MOVIE REVIEW Coming straight outta West Africa, Saloum starts with a coup d’etat, a drug lord, and 3 mercenaries tasked with with transporting said drug lord back to safety. By the 2nd act, shit flips on its head. Written and directed by Jean Luc Herbulot, Saloum is a horror/thriller that never relents. What should […]

SO VAM MOVIE REVIEW When a Shudder movie starts with a trigger warning, you know you’re in for… an indie LGBTQ+ drama with vampires? Kurt (Xai) can’t wait to run away and become a famous drag performer. But, he’s stuck in some part of Adelaide, South Australia (which, admittedly, has a checkered past regarding LGBTQ+ […]

GLORIOUS MOVIE REVIEW *Cue 90’s sitcom theme…* This is Wes seems like a really nice guy, his girlfriend left him, now he’s wondering why. Left empty and hurting, he’s starting to cry. He buries his demons with a bottle of rye, passes out at a rest stop, just letting it lie. He wakes up hungover, […]

ALLEGORIA MOVIE REVIEW Art. What is art? What is art at its very core essence? Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination. It is the power of creation, and, in turn, is one of the few ways that we, as mere mortals, hold the power of the gods. But what happens when the […]

THE REEF: STALKED MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Andrew Traucki returns to the water with somewhat of a successor sequel to his 2010 film The Reef with The Reef: Stalked. Now streaming on Shudder, this new shark horror film is the Jaws-light summer thriller to once again re-ignite your fear to get back in the water. After […]

MOLOCH MOVIE REVIEW Ah, Holland, the land of tulips, higher scores in all measures of quality of life than the U.S. and… generational curses? Betriek (Sallie Harmsen), a widowed mother, who lives in a village near the edge of a peat bog, is surprised one night to discover an intruder in the home she shares […]

THIS IS GWAR MOVIE REVIEW Good evening and salutations Earth Humans, it is I, Chadderus Urungus, here to tell you about an evil, grotesque, heavy metal band called GWAR. Spawning from the sick minds of Dave Brockie (Lead Singer) and Hunter Jackson (Filmmaker), GWAR has been decapitating heads and squirting blood in audiences faces for […]

THE LONG NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW A lot of things can ruin a romantic couple’s getaway weekend: Anxiety from the deep seclusion, personal injury through your own awkward clumsiness, or having the same old fight with your guy or gal. The worst though would have to be a cult gathering in the front lawn in the […]

REVEALER MOVIE REVIEW It’s going to be a Hell of a day for peep show exotic dancer Angie (Caito Aase) and it begins with having to get past a scrum of religious protestors outside her job. The door to her booth sticks, the clients are the same old creeps, the boss doesn’t give her the […]

VIRUS 32 MOVIE REVIEW You can lead a zombie to water but you can’t make him swim. Also, you can lead a promising director to a rage zombie movie but you can’t…wait, maybe you CAN still make a good zombie movie. A deft hand and great use of tension and moody lighting are the keys […]