“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth,” a seeming proverb reads, curiously scrawled on a diner chalkboard where one may instead see the daily special. Truth is a strange concept in a world populated by human beings defining their realities...
It is the year 2030 and the United States has fallen into chaos thanks to a moribund economy and the ravages of global warming. Amid these crises, an organization is given the power to determine whether or not American citizens are productive enough to remain...
Right as the credits for You Were Never Really Here start rolling across the screen, there is a cacophony of noise. It is actually even before the credits appear. It is when the screen is still black. This noise assault only hints at what is to...
It is probably not a stretch to say the majority of internet readers visit news publications, among other websites, mostly on their smartphones. The technology is ubiquitous. It is almost a cliché to bring attention to it anymore. Enter social media. Every time a user...
In 2013, Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to anime giant monster-robot smashups Pacific Rim burst on the scene. It was warmly welcomed for the most part. Audiences did come away with mixed feelings, though. Some fans had high enthusiasm for the sci-fi spectacle. Others were...
Mario Bava. Dario Argento. Lucio Fulci. These names pop up when Italian Giallo Horror is on the mind. Known for blood, bombast, and visual extravagance, Giallo terrifies as well as mystifies. These names come out from the past. Who are the filmmakers treading new ground and...
Late in the blazing and bloody The Strangers: Prey at Night - Directed by Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door 2016, 47 Meters Down 2017) - the Man in the Mask plays "I Think We're Alone Now" by ‘80s Pop superstar Tiffany. It is a...
Possessed animals and pets have been a staple of the Horror genre as long as it has been around; they are even a kind of sub-genre unto themselves. Depending on the filmmaker, this idea can go any of multiple ways: in his half of the...
As the greatest trauma the human race has seen, World War II conjures many images in the minds of people. A tragic cataclysm that exposed the true potential for evil lurking behind human eyes, World War II left the global community of nations scarred and...
An ominous, suffocating darkness overtakes and swallows all vision. Amid that endless black emerges a single statement, a definition. Perhaps this is a hint at what will come. “Void,” it reads. “A completely empty space…” as in “the black void of space.” From this vacuum, six...
