One of the big titles at this year’s Popcorn Frights Film Festival is the world premiere of Sorry, Charlie, a home invasion/defense revenge thriller film by director Colton Tran. Charlotte, aka Charlie, (Kathleen Kenny) is a survivor of a serial rapist & murderer, now pregnant with her assailant’s child. She volunteers on a mental health…

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is not a great film, but it certainly is a breath of fresh air. In 1982 Hollywood was still figuring out how these horror franchises would work. John Carpenter opted to continue his seminal Halloween via a direct sequel, retconning the ending just a tad so Michael Myers survived…

The Criterion Channel’s new collection for August, Grindhouse Gothic, focuses on director Roger Corman’s “Poe Cycle,” his 8 films in the first half of the 1960s adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The first of those, House of Usher, is arguably the most successful and the best. House of Usher is of course based…

I’ve been getting back into horror film recently. I grew up more interested in terrifying books than films, avidly reading almost anything that Stephen King or Dean Koontz put out for years, and while I always enjoyed a good scare, I never sought out the films in any kind of systematic way. Cut to two…

Newly refreshed and relaunched! Here I’ll be writing a lot about writing and specifically about movies. I consume a lot films (and will be consuming a lot more in September, more on that to come), and I like the idea of an outlet to fart out some hopefully perceptive thoughts on them but without donating…