Movies

Buffet Infinity plays like a VHS recording from a small-town cable channel that was left running too long. Edmonton filmmaker Simon Glassman spent 5 years shooting hundreds of original low-budget commercials, jingles, news bumpers, and PSAs without a conventional script. Most of that footage never made the finished film. The channel serves fictional Westridge County,…

The plot description is in the title; Models vs. Werewolves is about social media models who pick the wrong cabin to stay in and are accosted by werewolves. The horror comedy features an appearance by scream queen Dee Wallace, and also features Sarah Moliski, Rebecca Stoughton, Hannah Hueston, Alexa Reddy, Sophie Swiszcz, and Bella Mraz.…

Alice Chevalier has recently suffered a tragic event that shatters her life. As she struggles to find meaning in her existence, she crosses paths with an old friend who offers help in the form of a journey that can connect Alice’s mind to other dimensions of reality. While the trailer for Land of Shadows doesn’t…

Though it’s officially scheduled for its digital release on October 16, I found Stream of Terror available on multiple digital platforms on October 6. The movie focuses on a social media star, Tiffany Clarke, who becomes the center of a series of murders livestreamed by a masked killer. Tiffany will have to confront a secret…

Griffin Dunne’s horror résumé started in front of the camera. In 1981’s An American Werewolf in London, he was Jack Goodman — the American backpacker the wolf gets first. Jack then comes back as a rotting corpse to warn his friend. Seventeen years later he switched chairs and directed ‘Practical Magic’, the romantic witchcraft classic…

James’s daughter was swept out to sea, and he believes a monster is responsible. While struggling with his grief and alcoholism, more people around him start dying. James believes he knows what’s killing them, but will anyone believe him? Reviews for His Monster describe an atmospheric film with a strong performance from its lead actor,…

Dave is a teacher whose work environment is less than ideal. He finds an alien that he thinks is dead, and he sees it as an opportunity to get out of the rut he’s in. But there’s life in the creature still, and when it wakes up, everyone better watch out. Terrestrial is from writer…

A real witch who served as a consultant on the original “Practical Magic” demanded $250,000 and her own cookbook, then threatened to curse the film when the production said no. The dispute grew stranger when the consultant left a producer a voicemail in which she spoke in tongues. Director Griffin Dunne said she told him,…

In addition to writing and directing (with co-writer Brandon Slagle), Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton also both star in Last Chance Motel. They play a couple whose dream wedding becomes a bloodbath when they pick the wrong motel for their nuptials. Heather Langenkamp (Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street) plays the proprietor of the…

This is the fifth Killer Tomatoes movie, and the first since 1992. The goofiness is back, and so is John Astin, returning for his fourth Killer Tomatoes movie as Professor Mortimer Gangreen! The cast also includes Myrna Velasco, Zachary Roozen, Noor Razooky, Dan Bakkedahl, Daniel Roebuck, Paul Bates, Eric Allan Kramer, Samantha Bailey, David Koechner,…

Directed by Maya Annik Bedward, Black Zombie examines how the popular perception of zombies through the Hollywood lens has distorted, sensationalized, and erased parts of the Black spiritual traditions that the zombie rose from. “Even if in contemporary zombie films, you don’t necessarily connect the zombie to Haiti, you still see in a lot of…

Adria Arjona stars in Onslaught as a former Army sniper who fights to protect her daughter from genetically-engineered super soldiers who descend upon her neighborhood. Onslaught is from director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, the same creative team that brought us Blair Witch (2016), You’re Next (2011), and The Guest (2014). Onslaught is actually…

Insidious: Out of the Further is the sixth movie in the Insidious franchise. This one follows a new protagonist, a single mother named Gemma (Amelia Eve). She has the ability to astral project, and she can bring objects out of The Further and into our world. The entities of The Further try to use Gemma’s…

Harriet Slater stars in Fall 2: Deadpoint as Jax, the sister of Virginia Gardner’s character Shiloh Hunter from the first Fall. Jax is persuaded by Shiloh’s friend Luce (Arsema Thomas) to travel to Thailand for a plank walk in honor of their departed sister and friend. While they’re doing the walk, the planks start to…

Colony is from director Yeon Sang-ho, the filmmaker who directed one of the greatest zombie films of all time about a decade ago, Train to Busan. Colony is also a zombie movie of sorts, but the zombies act much differently here. Colony is set within a building where a biotech conference is being held. A…

One of horror’s most iconic weapons didn’t begin with a script — it began with a crowded store and a director desperate to get out. Tobe Hooper traced the origin of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s defining prop to a holiday shopping trip, and the story of how a moment of frustration became a genre landmark…

The teaser for “Christmas at the Kringles” dropped on September 16, and it turns the coziest holiday into a bloodbath. The Seversons move to a quiet suburb, only to find their new neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. When Mark and Julie start worrying about their son Bobby’s attachment to the family next door, Mark…

Skeet Ulrich doesn’t expect to return to the “Scream” franchise anytime soon — but his lifelong bond with co-star Matthew Lillard is here to stay. The actor, 56, recently revisited the original 1996 film that made him a horror icon as Billy Loomis. “Matthew Lillard and I did a live commentary while watching [the original…