For the uninitiated, there is a subgenre in horror where people put movies that are overly violent or graphic in an excessively cruel manner called "mean spirited" horror. A Serbian Film would be considered by many to be the most worthy of the title considering its vile content but even films like Silent Night Deadly Night have gained this [...]

While they say imitation is the purest form of flattery, and something can be said about the legendary Halloween spawning the slasher genre alone with all of its copycats, some tales are worth telling again. Not in the sense that we just tell the same story again but for an American audience, but something similar with a [...]

Have you ever heard the classic story of the parents of a small child telling them to never trust a stranger offering them free candy? As adults, it makes perfect sense, but to a child turning down free candy is illogical and doesn't make any sense. It is a classic mistake of having an important [...]

This may sound like a bold statement, but a film needs to constantly have something happening. I'm not talking about having a short attention span where there needs to be a car chase or explosion every 30 seconds. Every scene needs to serve a purpose, this could be some crucial information to the plot or [...]

Playing of the recognition of another movie and trying to "ape" their success can often be a bold move that runs more risks than it does gains. Most of the time it just comes off as a cheap imitation boarding on rip off territory. Some companies like The Asylum have built an entire empire off of [...]

Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) stands at a door of his girlfriend Olya's (Evgeniya Kregzhde) parent's apartment. Hammer in hand, he is ready to commit murder to right a wrong. Of course things don't go as planned. In the fast-paced action comedy WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! (aka Papa, sdokhni) from writer-director Kirill Sokolov nothing goes as [...]

Having likable characters in a film has never been a hard hurdle when it comes to the audience. Making them relatable and a character you want to root for is more tricky but just likable is easy. Characters the audience enjoys make them more likely to want to see them survive and succeed, which can [...]