Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - The dating world has been struck by the phenomenon of ghosting for quite some time now, and in Ghosting Gloria, written by Mauro Sarser and co-directed by Sarser and Marcela Matta, this modern-day phenomenon is married with some good old fashioned ghost phenomena as well, culminating in a love [...]

"Did somebody say, witch?" Neil Marshall, director of horror classic The Descent (2005) has his new film, The Reckoning (2020), releasing February 5th, 2021. The Reckoning is a period piece both dark in coloring and content as it details horrors of the mob mentality that plagued witch trials. It's often intense in its action and detailed [...]

Where is the line drawn between what constitutes a ripoff versus a homage? If a filmmaker is a long time fan of a genre and puts references to other genre films in their film, is it a ripoff? Moreso if the film is taking a premise that has been done before but takes it in [...]

If you have ever watched a horror film spoof or parody around the mid-2000s you could play bingo with the cliches and direct references. The cliches would be loud music stings, disappearing/ reappearing antagonist, and usually a ghost girl. The ghost girl design would undoubtedly be lifted from Samara of The Ring or Kayako from The [...]

Lavender is like a dream. There is a creeping unease beneath every scene, with cameras that slowly weave in and out of frozen characters suspended in time as in a human diorama, or a slow-motion car crash where the driver is shown floating in zero gravity as the car slooowly demolishes around her.  These may [...]

Nestled in a quiet little suburb of Irvine, CA, the street of Goldenrod hosts row after row of quaint, proper, middle class homes. Well-trimmed lawns, curbside mailboxes, and the warm glow of house lights  seen from the well-kept sidewalks complete a picture of idyllic suburban comfort. Until you get to number 16. That house is [...]

What do you get when you combine a television and film writer who has worked on several recent Disney hits, a former Peace Corps member turned writer for film and television with an affinity for horror, a designer that works for Disney's Pixar Animation Studios, a production coordinator for Disney's upcoming feature, Moana and an [...]