by Richard von Busack
As Jean Sibelius once wrote, “once you get to the last Lapp, you’re at the Finnish line”. Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (in limited release) is set in the land of the Sami, …

Great new footage from our friends at Rouge Pictures for the new release of Skyline

In the sci-fi thriller Skyline, strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a …

The creepy old house mystery is Halloween-lite; horror for those who really don’t care for horror much…for those who’d like to be in the season’s mood but don’t want to be jolted. No one should …

by Richard von Busack
Remember Tim Burton’s Ed Wood arguing that the naïve folk artist director Wood had some parallels to Orson Welles, on the grounds that Wood, too, was a complete filmmaker? William Castle, …

There are many films that would qualify as being among the goriest movies of all time.  After all, come every Halloween or summer vacation, every teen in the land is eager to be scared and …

Every film buff has their list of the best horror movies of all time, some of them gory and some of them of the smarter, thriller kind. But most critics and film aficionados agree on …

Though many film goers enjoy making a trip to the marquee to be scared and spooked by their favorite film villains, there is a separate and emerging genre – known as the short horror film …

by Richard von Busack
There was a time when vampires didn’t suck: once they were frightening figures instead of big haired, emo-drunk metaphors for teen angst. “Dark in August,” this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center …

by Richard von Busack
When you can make a horror film with guts and elegance, light on blood and pop-ups, heavy on the king-hell disorientation that can only come from a solid premise rooted in primal …

by Richard von Busack
In the Meandros Valley in Turkey in 1920, a strange artifact is discovered:an ancient board game dedicated to the great god Pan. The game is refurbished, but sfter it kills its discoverers, …