If we stop for a moment to think outside of our own lives, whether your food wasn't made how you requested it at the restaurant or that your coworker's slacking is making your day more difficult, there are people whose lives are a living horror movie. It is easy to get wrapped up in our [...]

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 [...]

When being a first-time filmmaker there is nearly constant pressure to make your project ambitious as to stand out in the crowd. It has to be the most clever, the most interesting, and the most unique if it ever has a chance of being noticed by a studio. What that tends to lead to though [...]

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 [...]

There are many different factors that must be considered before judging a film as bad. Some of these elements, such as a lack of budget, are infinitely more permissible than others. Although a movie production may not be working under the most ideal circumstances, this is certainly not tantamount to unavoidable failure. Hell, occasionally, a lack of [...]

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 [...]