Raise your hand if you saw Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare earlier this year? While the film didn’t exactly break open the box office, it did quite well considering its minimal budget around 3 mil, so I’m assuming a good chunk of you have either seen it or at least know of it. Why am I mentioning a Blumhouse movie that has nothing to do with a Christmas horror indie called Elves?
Read MoreCam (2018) #IthacaFantastik
As a self-proclaimed “media personality”, there is an inherent… strangeness to the whole thing. In a similar sense to the films I review, I’m laying myself bare out here, ready to be picked apart for my opinions, which is often pretty justified. I don’t know you, and you barely know me, even if you’ve been reading my work for a while.
Read MoreDead Love (2018)
Ah, love. What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.
Read MoreKiller Kate! (2018)
If you had to choose some kind of nickname done with alliteration, what would it be? Me, I’d probably pick Morbid Matt. Seems right.
Read MoreJohnny Gruesome (2018)
As a kid that wasn’t exactly swimming in popularity growing up, one of my favorite types of horror films has always been the “supernatural revenge” film. Movies like Evilspeak, Carrie, Christine, The Crow, Pumpkinhead, and The Wraith, just to name a very few of many. There’s nothing quite like seeing bullies and assholes get their bloody comeuppance.
Read MoreKing Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
Often referred to as “the Cassavetes of exploitation,” filmmaker Larry Cohen was responsible for some of the most engaging and transgressive films of the 70's and 80's. Though arguably more famous as the creative force behind the It’s Alive franchise and the quirky cult film Q, his career began as a prolific television writer for dozens of 60's television productions. His work spans six decades of creative and often challenging material, which would make any attempt at a documentary on his legacy a daunting task.
Read MoreAnimalistic (2015)
When you sit back and think about it, what are human beings but a bunch of sophisticated animals? Yeah sure, we give ourselves laws, create beautiful art, develop science that does important things like provide ugly face Snapchat filters or allow access to videos of cats jumping into boxes. But take out all the “higher thinking” and pretend morals, and we’re just a bunch of animals working off of primal instincts, the two most basic being sex and survival.
Read MoreOur House (2018)
Upon finishing Our House, my very first review for CineDump, I thought to myself, “they’re going to think I’m an asshole”. I was really hoping to express the love and passion I have for a genre that I’ve been enamored with since I was, believe it or not, three years old, ever since I first laid my eyes upon John Carpenter’s roaring horror film, Christine, another film that combines ghosts and machine, albeit in a much different sense. But then I realized, if I’m going to be writing here, you’ll all have to get used to my sarcasm eventually, and I can’t imagine a better opportunity to express that than by discussing Our House, a film that I truly believe is trying to bore its audience to death for some unfathomable, sinister purpose.
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