When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, national officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to put an end to its devastating and deadly havoc. https://youtu.be/ahgfyU-oSTs “TROLL” (2022): Norse legend leaps to life Film Review by John Smistad Norwegians, ...
Synopsis The Spanish horror thriller “Compulsion” presents a fairytale relationship reduced to shambles when a shy woman suspects that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She follows him and sees him meeting up with another lady (of the night). Although ...
Synopsis A social media prankster and his fiancée find their idyllic country weekend turn into the ultimate video prank where the stakes are life and death in this Canadian horror thriller. There are things “Making Monsters” gamely strives to make ...
My main measuring stick with movies of fiction, in particular horror stories, is always to consider the question, Whose to say this is not how YOU would conceivably behave if faced with similar extraordinary, life-altering and/or threatening circumstances? And so ...
“Blindsided” is your standard psycho killer fare punched up by an out of sight performance by Bea Santos (“True Detective”) as a resourceful young woman named Sloan. Did I mention her character is blind? And that she is a balls ...
There is more than meets the eye goin’ on in the unconventional Iranian horror/thriller “Under the Shadow”. One whole helluva lot more. The setting is a Tehran apartment house during the late stages of the nearly decade-long Iran-Iraq War of ...
https://youtu.be/7id_QSv8qYY There are certainly things to be said about the independent horror mockumentary “Savageland”. Both good things and not so much. Being as I am a steadfast “glass half full” guy and, by extension, critic, let us begin with the ...
