In 2018, David Gordon Green’s Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, killed at the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman. And the Halloween night…

DARK DITTIES: THE WITCHING HOUR **** UK 2019 Dir: Adam Evans. 85 mins The second episode from the third season of Amazon’s “Dark Ditties” comic-horror anthology series (created by Adam Evans, Gary Smart and Neil Morris) is a lot of fun, both as a stand-alone feature and as part of…

TONE-DEAF **** USA 2019 Dir: Richard Bates Jr. 87 mins Since his debut with EXCISION (a 2008 short that became a 2012 feature), writer-director Richard Bates Jr. has consistently delivered genre films with a distinctive satirical bite. While providing another role for EXCISION’s wonderful AnnaLynne McCord, TONE-DEAF follows the Bates…

KALEIDOSCOPE **** UK 2016 Dir: Rupert Jones. 100 mins Toby Jones (brother of writer-director Rupert) is typically great as a lonely ex-con living in thrall to his domineering mother (a powerful off-camera presence for the first half of the film). He meets up with chatty Abby (Sinead Matthews) after they…

VICIOUS FUN **** Canada 2020 Dir: Cody Calahan. 101 mins Joel played by Evan Marsh a horror film critic finds himself in a sticky situation when he stumbles into a self-help group for serial killers. Film critic Joel writes for a cult horror magazine and manages to find himself knee deep…