Cozy horror is apparently a thing. I was happy to dig into something unique and fun, and Bonnie Quinn delivers with the first book in her How to Survive Camping series. The book, and the series, started out as a collection of posts on the No Sleep forum on Reddit. The story centers around Kate,…
Tag: 2025
Project MKHEXE (2025) – Gerald Robert Waddell
There’s a solid and creepy idea at work in the mockumentary, Project MKHEXE, I just don’t think it’s executed as well as it could have been. A rediscovered lost documentary tells the story of Tim Wilson (Ignacyo Matynia) as he attempts to dig into the suicide of his younger brother, Sean (Will Jandro). Tim doesn’t…
The Long Walk (2025) – Francis Lawrence
The Long Walk, based on the novel by Stephen King, is a brutal, moving and engaging piece of filmmaking that follows a group of young men making an unending walk, until only of them survives to claim the prize and receive one wish. Dystopian in nature, something director Francis Lawrence (he directed Constantine, and I…
Undertone (2025) – Ian Tuason
Undertone is a smart and engaging horror film. With its slow and ominous camera movements, there’s a constant sense of tension created by the knowledge that there may be something lurking just off camera that you are about to catch a glimpse of. It’s also confined to one location, a home (right here in Toronto)….
Tribe (2025) – Dan Asma
As I’ve previously said, in fact, I think everyone has found footage can be hit or miss. Tribe came up in my Facebook feed, and I figured, why not? There was something in it that caught my interest. For the most part, the film works; it stands up, but there are some pretty low-budget visual…
Screaming and Conjuring (2025) – Clark Collis
Clark Collis delivers a fantastic look at the horror genre and its revitalization during the run of films from the game changing Scream in 1996 to the haunted house Conjuring of 2013. That seventeen years of cinema saw countless genre films released, and it documents its growth and evolution. Collis explores them all, the high-profile…
The Devils (2025) – Joe Abercrombie
I was absolutely charmed by this book. It’s like the Dirty Dozen goes on a fantasy quest, and nott only is it filled with great beats, solid action, and fantastic characters, it also has an incredibly sharp with. The narrative follows Brother Diaz, in a medieval world not quite unlike ours, he’s been given a…
Anaconda (2025) – Tom Gormican
Rebooting the Anaconda series as a comedy with horror aspects was a pretty clever idea. And the film delivers a silly and relatable story, and it lets Paul Rudd and Jack Black have a good time together. There’s an earnest story here as the pair play childhood friends, alongside Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton, who…
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – The Making of the Classic Film (2025) – John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto
I have fallen in love with the Titan Star Trek books. They are informative and comprehensive in their text, and the mass of photography and production art are stunning. I have devoured the books on The Motion Picture, and The Wrath of Khan, and I was overdue to dig into The Search for Spock, despite…
The Naked Gun (2025) – Akiva Schaffer
I never would have thought it before, but after seeing the first trailer, I thought, of course Liam Neeson can play the new Frank Drebin! And honestly, throughout the course of the film, it just feels like he’s having a great time. Taking a page from the original Naked Gun films, and its launching point,…
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