Buffet Infinity embraces non-traditional storytelling, opting to unravel their narrative through a series of low-budget commercials.  There is a larger story that unravels between the note-perfect ads for law firms, pawn shops, and restaurants. On the surface, it would be easy to write Buffet Infinity off as short attention span theater. It is, in fact,…

I love Resident Evil. Besides the nostalgia factor, the games managed to hit on the perfect combination of survival horror and over-the-top action movie dialogue,  especially when Leon is concerned. And yeah, we’re gonna talk about Leon a lot, so consider this a content warning.  One of the reasons I spent a lazy Labor Day watching Resident Evil: Damnation is…

Passenger could have been a good movie. The bones are there, especially after a pretty great opening sequence. But there’s no meat on them. In fact, Passenger is as “unelevated” as a ghost story can get. The good news is that there are some sequences that totally work for it. The bad news is it feels like this…

The Backrooms takes place in 1990, or a vague approximation of what someone too young to have experienced it thinks it looks like. This is completely irrelevant to the plot or anything that happens, other than it irritated me. I’m not familiar with the source material for The Backrooms, other than it’s a menacing liminal space that…

I’ve never reviewed a Poe adaptation, so The Oval Portrait seemed like a good fit for a quiet Sunday afternoon. I’ll be honest, I think it’s challenging to do modern gothic horror correctly. Many of the stylistic elements, the crumbling moody houses and castles, and the oppressive gloomy, isolated environments are made challenging by the intrusion of…

In The Mouth of Madness may be one of John Carpenter’s more overlooked movies. It’s a Lovecraftian-inspired story about the blending of fiction and reality. Carpenter made three movies focusing on the end of the world: The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and ending with In the Mouth of Madness. They’re not connected narratively, but each deal with our lack of understanding…

There was no need to remake Anaconda. There was especially no need to remake Anaconda as commentary on fan films and indie filmmaking. I always find it interesting when successful and well-regarded film makers make movies about making movies. Especially when they’re as unkind to the efforts of indie filmmakers as Anaconda (2025) is.  Humor is Subjective Which in some part,…

Flight 7500 is not a movie I should have watched at this particular moment, but since I make good decisions, here goes. Directed by the creator of the Grudge franchise, Takashi Shimizu. It’s a tense, claustrophobic movie full of interesting character moments and creative camera angles that take advantage of the confined space. Just the thing to watch before…

Tumbbad is a bit of an outlier for me. I’m not super familiar with Indian Horror or its genre standards. This one required a bit more research than usual, especially since the movie relies on so much historical and spiritual context.  Tumbbad is a generational period piece that warns about the dangers of capitalism in India.  It starts…