Putting the Fatal in Fatalism: Tarot (2024)

Seven friends rent a mansion for a weekend to celebrate a birthday. Elise (Larsen Thompson) and her besties Haley (Harriet Slater), Madeline (Humberly González), Paige (Avantika), Grant (Adain Bradley), Lucas (Wolfgang Novogratz), and Paxton (a wildly entertaining Jacob Batalon) have run through their supply of beer and are searching for a stash in the rental […]

Big Apple Slices: Scream VI (2023)

After their fateful encounter with slasher evil in Woodsboro, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), and Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding) have relocated to New York City to pursue school and life away from their tragedy. Sam is not having an easy time of things. She is seeking therapy, […]

Blonde Fury: Lady Reporter (1989)

When the FBI discovers the US is being flooded with counterfeit hundred dollar bills, their best analysts trace the funny money to Hong Kong. It’s time to call in a specialist agent to crack the case. As it turns out, Cindy (Cynthia Rothrock) went to school in HK, has plenty of contacts there, and can […]

Because the Night Belongs to Us: You’ll Never Find Me (2023)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful … The strangest storm to hit this particular Australian trailer park in a while has arrived, bringing booming thunder and brilliant flashes of lightning. It’s 2AM and Patrick (Brendon Rock) is still up and awake, listening to the radio playing “Sleepwalk” and waiting for something, trying to figure something […]

“How Can Fandom Be Toxic? It’s About Love!” Scream (2022)

Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) is coming home again. It’s been five years since she left Woodsboro behind her, but now her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega) has been brutally stabbed, so it’s time to go home, make amends, maybe reveal a family skeleton or two. She’s bringing her boyo Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid) with her for […]

Politics Can Be Messy: President’s Day (2010)

At Lincoln High School, this year’s student class body election is getting surprisingly cutthroat. Popular girl Chelsea (Nicolette le Faye) is the likeliest to succeed … at least until the likeable slacker Barry (Bennie Mack McCoy IV) decides to throw his hat into the ring. Why now when he has neither paid his dues nor […]

Arach Attack: Infested (2023)

Kaleb (Théo Christine) visits Ali (Samir Nait), for two reasons: a package pickup as well as looking for an affordable gift for a beloved neighbor who is leaving his building. However, when Ali takes him into the backroom to look at his valuable, possibly smuggled jewelry, Kaleb sees something in addition to a pair of […]

She Waits Below: Baghead (2023)

When Iris Lark (Freya Allan) hears from a solicitor (Ned Dennehy), she is at her wits end. Broke, living on friend Katie’s (Ruby Barker) couch, no job prospects and only a sliver of a dream for school, she’s got nothing to look forward to. But then she learns her dad Owen (Peter Mullan) has died […]

I Prefer the Term “Artificial Person,” Myself: T. R. Napper’s Aliens: Bishop

After Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992), there is a big old gap before the next film (1997’s Alien: Resurrection) takes place. It’s an area rife with possibilities for storytelling, akin to the gap between the events of A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) in Star Wars Continuity. Author T. R. […]

Helluva Craft: Witch’s Brew (2011)

Before the WNUF Halloween Special (2013), Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014), and What Happens Next Will Scare You (2020), writer/director Chris LaMartina helmed a few other flicks, including shorts and feature films. The 2010 slasher flick, President’s Day, has just found a new life thanks to the recent Blu-ray release via the Terror Vision label, […]