Any piece of media that is composed of multiple creators, whether it be a book of short stories or a film anthology, is inherently a gamble. The curator of the project must find talented people to contribute and decide on the best way and order to present the stories. With film anthologies, there is even [...]

Subtle horror is the subgenre that can haunt the adults in the audience in the same way that outward horror movies scare the young and inexperienced. The difficulties with these films though is with little happening the audience needs to be given something to keep their interest. This can be characters or an interesting location [...]

In just the last year I have been introduced to well-crafted murder mysteries, with classics like Murder on the Orient Express and Then There Were None, and taken to them like a fish to water. These films combined with my constant searches for good murder documentaries have had the idea of mysteries as well as murder at [...]

Within the genre, horror has always reveled in revealing the uncomfortable truths to its audience and unexpecting first timers. If horror has always been built on a foundation of shocking and horrifying the viewers, few things do that as effectively as the reality of the world. Sometimes this can be through the minimal realities that [...]

Much in the same way a trapeze artist must balance during their act or become quickly familiar with the ground, films have to balance tone if they are going to try multiple moods or risk falling flat. Of the possible genres you can mash together, adding comedy is difficult but making a comedy horror has [...]

A storytelling technique that has become increasingly more popular in the last few decades that is often used in artier films is breaking your film into sections or chapters. These can be used to show a simple passage of time or to give a thematic tone to the next scene, something for the audience to [...]

There was a time in the movie lovers' lives where a favorite film could either get left behind in an outdated format or worse yet disappear altogether. Currently, however, movie lovers live in a utopia where every film that ever graced the big or small screen is making it to Blu-ray and being given the [...]