Yesterday, the world received the heartbreaking news that George A. Romero had died. He was a cinematic icon, and he reinvented the zombie movie genre with his seminal classic Night of the Living Dead over half a century ago. In some ironic twist of fate, I found out about his death around the same time…

Yesterday, I woke up with the most bizarre desire – I wanted to watch a film starring Vincent Price. I have been a fan of the esteemed horror icon for as long as I can remember and yet hadn’t explored his entire filmography – and the recent purchase of a box-set of his best films…

One cannot think of “strange” cinema without thinking of David Lynch. While I wouldn’t say that Lynch created the surrealist genre, rather inheriting it from the likes of Luis Buñuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky, he certainly did popularize it and put his own unique spin on it that gave us the defining look that we now…

Well…that was most certainly something. Raw (Grave) is a gory, disgusting and demented film, and also an utterly brilliant piece of cinema. This is a film that had me gagging in disgust and applauding in celebration of its pure audacity. If that doesn’t mean this is certainly an experience, then I am not entirely sure…

An important part of being a cinephile (or at least something that many cinephiles agree is important) is not only do we adore cinema and relish in watching movies, we also have a tendency to have a fascination with the origins of modern cinema – this is understandable, because without knowing where these films originated…

One surprising development that I’ve been so happy to see come to fruition in the past few years is the return to independent horror films becoming more prominent. Some of the greatest horror films ever made were independently made, and every mainstream Hollywood horror film made as had some influence drawn from an independent horror…

First things first – I need to give major kudos to David Ehrlich. His taste is always flawless, and we can see that in his gorgeous year-end best-of lists (even if he didn’t include the masterpiece Birdman in his 2014 list, but I forgive him). The reason why I’m mentioning him here is because his…

I sometimes start to think horror films are becoming a parody of themselves. Crowd-pleasing horrors are starting to become too cliched and dull, and distance themselves from their predecessors. Of course this is not true for all horror films, because very often something comes along that is unique and brilliant, in either its story, execution…

There are some films that I find myself disappointed in never watching – it is important to look at where many of today’s films originate from, and watch films that have a legacy as being classics of their genres and of cinema in general. One such film I am shocked I only watched very recently…