Roman Kugge

Bigfoot is back. And this time, he’s not hiding. Eduardo Sánchez — one half of the duo behind The Blair Witch Project — returns to the found footage genre with Exists, a creature feature that wastes no time getting to the point. I had been following this film for almost a year before it landed, keeping my fingers crossed that it would eventually make it to home video. It did. And I’m g...[Read More]

There is a moment in Late Night with the Devil — somewhere in the second act, during a commercial break — where the camera stays on Jack Delroy’s face a beat longer than it should. The studio lights are still up. The audience is still there. And something in his expression tells you that what is about to happen on live television is not going to go the way anyone planned. That moment is why ...[Read More]

There is a particular kind of cinema that doesn’t explain itself. No establishing shots of the threat. No scientist delivering exposition about what we’re dealing with. No cut to a war room where generals stare at radar screens. Just a group of people, a camera, and something happening outside the frame that they can’t outrun. Cloverfield understood that instinct before most bloc...[Read More]

Don’t let the title fool you. Trollhunter sounds like it could be a cheap creature feature — the kind of film that turns up in a bargain bin with a CGI monster on the cover and nothing else to recommend it. It is not that film. Not even close. Written and directed by André Øvredal — who would later go on to direct Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark — Trollhunter is one...[Read More]