'Exit Plan' Is Wonderfully Nordic but Totally Confusing Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby

Published Jun 22, 2020

Exit Plan (or Suicide Tourist, as it was originally titled in its native Denmark) may not be the most coherent thriller, it's certainly one...

'Spaceship Earth' Sheds Light on Environmental Activism's Corporate Downfall Directed by Matt Wolf

Published May 19, 2020

In 1991, a group of environmentalist hippies/theatre geeks got together to develop Biosphere 2, an endeavour that, at its core, was a noble...

'Diablo Rojo PTY,' Panama's First Horror Film, Is a Total Blast Directed by Sol Moreno

Published May 14, 2020

Diablo Rojo PTY, Panama's first-ever horror feature film (PTY is the airport code for Panama), is an ode to '80s creature-feature horror — b...

'Other Music' Is a Bittersweet Obituary for a Record Store and Its Community Directed by Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller

Published Apr 16, 2020

These days, it's great to see reminders of how important collective physical spaces are, even if the story of that space is a bittersweet on...

'Vivarium' Is an Unnerving Horror of Suburban Isolation Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

Published Apr 02, 2020

Viviarium, the second feature from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, is going to hit people a little differently now than when it was first sc...

'Come to Daddy' Throws Fun Curveballs, but Can't Maintain Its Zany Pace Directed by Ant Timpson

Published Feb 06, 2020

Canadian-New Zealand coproduction Come to Daddy is the directorial debut of Ant Timpson, producer of horror anthology The ABCs of Death and...

'Locke & Key' Tries to Be the Next 'Stranger Things' and Fails

Published Feb 05, 2020

Locke & Key, the ten-episode Netflix adaptation of the horror-fantasy graphic novel series by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez,...

Blood in the Snow Review: 'She Never Died' Is a Fun Feminist Revenge Flick Directed by Audrey Cummings

Published Nov 26, 2019

She Never Died, the third feature from Canadian director Audrey Cummings and the followup/flipside to 2015's horror-comedy He Never Died, is...

'Doctor Sleep' Director Mike Flanagan Reveals the Pressure of Adapting His Hero Stephen King

Published Nov 06, 2019

This week, director Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's continuation to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, hits theatres. The novel is spra...

'Doctor Sleep' Is a Successful Stephen King Adaptation That Nods to Kubrick Too Directed by Mike Flanagan

Published Nov 04, 2019

Director Mike Flanagan has made a career out of emotionally intense, thrillingly atmospheric ghost stories, from the classic horror throwbac...

Toronto After Dark Review: 'The Wretched' Maximizes Its Low-Budget Creepy Potential Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce

Published Oct 28, 2019

The Wretched's style harkens back to late '90s / early 2000s horror that revels in moments of corny, deranged, gleefully freaky fun, like a...

Toronto After Dark Review: '8: A South African Horror Story' Offers Tropes Unfamiliar to Western Audiences Directed by Harold Hölscher

Published Oct 24, 2019

8: A South African Horror Story is a welcome respite from cookie-cutter possession films, owing in large part to its commitment to highlight...

Toronto After Dark Review: 'Paradise Hills' Is Visually Stunning and That's Nearly Enough Directed by Alice Waddington

Published Oct 22, 2019

Director Alice Waddington's feature debut, Paradise Hills, is the very definition of style over substance — but that's not necessarily a bad...

Toronto After Dark Review: 'Making Monsters' Fails to Exploit Its Influencer Premise Directed by Justin Harding and Rob Brunner

Published Oct 22, 2019

Making Monsters is a case study in an excellent premise stretched too thin, and a concept that doesn't have enough legs to sustain an entire...

Toronto After Dark Review: 'The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale' Is an Absurd but Fresh Zombie Take Directed by Lee Min-jae

Published Oct 21, 2019

The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale is the type of film that's a mainstay at the Toronto After Dark Film Fest: a gleefully silly, constantly movi...

'Harpoon' Is an Amusing Three-Jerks-on-a-Boat Horror Directed by Rob Grant

Published Oct 07, 2019

A bottle movie is hard to pull off, and even more so when you're imbuing that tense energy with gleefully gory black comedy. But Harpoon man...

'IT Chapter Two' Director Andy Muschietti and Producer Barbara Muschietti Share How Stephen King's Epic Became Two Films

Published Sep 05, 2019

Stephen King's It is an epic behemoth of a book. Both the 1990 It miniseries and the present film iteration split their adaptation into two...

'IT Chapter Two' Is an Appropriate Conclusion but Lacks Spark Directed by Andy Muschietti

Published Sep 04, 2019

Stephen King's IT is a colossal book, in more ways than one. Over the course of a thousand pages, King tracks the nature of evil, violence,...

'Ready or Not' Is a Fun Horror About Games the Stupidly Rich Play Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

Published Aug 21, 2019

It's been over 30 years, and no film has been able to capture the same frantic energy and dark, campy humour as the original Clue, a box off...

'The Peanut Butter Falcon' Is a Familiar Road Adventure With a Fresh Perspective Directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson

Published Aug 21, 2019

It would have been easy for The Peanut Butter Falcon to fall prey to all the most egregious inspirational indie film stereotypes, and end up...