RELIC (IFC) | A DVD Review

Just got through watching IFC's "RELIC". I honestly did not expect it to be as good as it was. Though a horror film it might be it is also possibly one of the best cinematic metaphors for life and death that I've ever seen. Particularly life and death through the eyes of three generations. 

The Cleansing Hour (SHUDDER) | A DVD Review

The Cleansing hour is an overflowing fondue cheese fountain sprinkled with a dash of tele-evangelical holy water that is anything, but pure ...

THE WRETCHED | Horror Review

First teased in 2019, and released finally in 2020 "The Wretched" found it's audience among horror indie fans. Me being one of them. The film itself follows a teenage boy with a criminal history who witnesses the otherworldly happenings of the families within his local town. When the film opens up we are first teased with what amounts to the end of the film. One of those starting at the end, and finishing with a full fledged trip throughout what led up to that horrific scenario types of deals. In that teaser we find a babysitter showing up for work in a house that is abnormally quiet. The child is supposedly asleep, and the babysitter chats on the phone to a friend about her job. Interrupted by a noise in the home she lets her friend go to investigate. This leads to her going into the basement. Upon descending the stairs she sees a woman in a rocking chair cradling, and eating a child. This child is of course the kid the babysitter was sent to watch. The woman in the chair feasts upon the lifeless body of the child as blood drips to the floor. Panicked the babysitter runs back upstairs only to be stopped short in her tracks by the man of the house. He slams the basement door in her face, and locks it leaving only blood curdling screams to be heard. The camera pans out outside the basement revealing strange markings etched into the basement door. The film then cuts to several months earlier ...