The Ritual (2017): When the Forest Doesn’t Let You Leave
Some horror films scare you with what they show. The Ritual scares you with where it takes you — and the creeping certainty that the forest you’ve walked into has no intention of letting you out. Directed by David Bruckner — who would later go on to direct The Black Phone and the Hellraiser reboot — and based on Adam Nevill’s 2011 novel of the same name, The Ritual debuted in UK cinema...[Read More]
The Best Bigfoot Movies: 11 Films That Take the Legend Seriously
Let’s be honest: the majority of Bigfoot movies are cheesy B-movies. Most directors who take on the cult monster are walking a razor-thin line — and most of them fall off it. The results are usually trashy, cheap, and forgettable. And yet — Bigfoot endures. The legend of a humanoid creature roaming the forests of North America has had a devoted global fanbase for decades, and it keeps findin...[Read More]
Exists (2014): The Bigfoot Found Footage Film That Actually Delivers
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]
Late Night with the Devil (2023): My “Feel Good Horror Movie”
Man, there’s something about a late night talk show. The warm studio lights, the band playing the host in, the audience laughing at jokes you barely understand. It just feels… safe. Like being a kid at your grandparents’ house, way past your bedtime, wrapped in a blanket — and your grandparents actually letting you stay up to watch. That little feeling of privilege. Of being trus...[Read More]
Cloverfield (2008): New York, One Camera, and Something Enormous
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]