Author: horrorfestival

Director: Bong Joon-ho Starring: Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam Review Author: Tony It has been over three months since I sat in a surprisingly full cinema for a screening of the renowned, and critically loved, Parasite. I use the word surprise as I’ve never seen such a large turnout for an international film with… Continue reading Parasite (2020) — Reel Time Flicks

Director: Andrew Patterson Starring: Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz Review Author: Tony For all the chest beating about cinema being the only authentic way to experience the art of film; it’s indie movies that have unfairly been labelled as pretentious. Streaming has become the go to platform for indie film in the last decade, allowing films… Continue reading The Vast of Night (2020) — Reel Time Flicks

Director: Robert Kurtzman Starring: Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Robert Englund Review Author: Tony For an entire category dedicated to getting blasted and suffering through some lesser-known B movie, you’d think Covid 19 and a nationwide lockdown would be the perfect time for multiple entries for Beer Goggles. The issue is, I’ve been less than sober… Continue reading Beer Goggles: Wishmaster (1997) — Reel Time Flicks

When you meet someone, what’s one of the first things that you tell them about yourself? For me, it’s that I love horror movies. I love getting scared by them, I love laughing at their campiness, and I love analysing them thematically. Every week, I call my best friend on the phone and we pick […]… Continue reading My Favourite Horror Movies — travelbloom

It is Pride Month once more and discussions in 2020 have evolved and are trying to become more inclusive and accepting. Whether it is the Black Lives Matter movement or J.K. Rowling´s latest twitter controversy, discussions are taking place and there is heightened awareness and sensitivity about the topics. Books and movies have had a […]… Continue reading How LGBTQ+ Representation has evolved in literature — Nishtha’s Bookish Thoughts

This is one of my favorite movies… I saw it recently and I said to myself “I must write about it! This is an absolute masterpiece of horror.”Because it can be included in the category SO BAD IT’S SO GOOD. And this is really good! Re-Animator is a 1985 Sci-Fi Horror movie directed by Stuart […]… Continue reading RE-ANIMATOR — Coffee and Horror

One of horror’s biggest problems is its obsession with outdated tropes. A major stumbling block is the genre’s treatment of the mentally ill. Before the second half of the twentieth century, characters would just “go mad”, with no real list of symptoms to adhere to. It was an easy way to create conflict, and not […]… Continue reading Session 9 (2001) — Pandemonium of Absence

Across cases, the majority of victims of police brutality have been the socially and economically depressed groups, those whose voices are easily suppressed. via Unnamed George Floyds Of India—The Episodic Police Brutality In 2019-20 — Feminism In India

Originally, I’d planned to make a more “serious” gothic vampire painting, inspired by old horror movies. But, this digitally-edited painting quickly ended up going in a slightly… sillier… direction instead. As usual, this painting is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence. via Today’s Art (16th June 2020) — PekoeBlaze – the official blog