A woman invoking the name of a vengeful spirit five times finds herself in a predicament when that entity embarks on a killing spree and refuses to leave.

Quirky horror comedy He’s Dead and So Am I is an occasionally uncomfortable, but consistently entertaining film.

While it retreads familiar ground and is a bit too on the nose, Teddy’s emphasis on humanity and awkward humor proves winsome.

When reverie is undercut by the intrusion of reality, the audience is immediately clued in to how deep that divide is.

Deep Learning is a type of machine learning and artificial intelligence that imitates the ways humans gain certain types of knowledge.

It’s part psycho-biddy in the Greta vein, but also part odd-couple supernatural romance along the lines of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. I loved every strange minute of it.

Meghan Leon has really given us a fast-paced and unique story that manages to be both savage and fun in equal parts.

The Chattanooga Film Fest has an interesting slate of short films screening at this year’s virtual event.

Despite all the killings, it is not all bad news. For example, attendance at church has gone up.

It has some delicious elements of Grand Dame Guignol. But it’s more than that; it’s something weirder, something a little sweeter than most films of the subgenre.

What goes on in those moments before unimaginable tragedy, between first seeing someone unfamiliar and realizing that they mean to take your life?

The film plays like a 1970s giallo complete with odd and twisty camera work, obsessive relationships, and unbridled violence.

When an adventure journalist dares to revisit her home in a remote village in Mexico she discovers that it’s more than her desire that challenges her to face her demons but her fate as well.

The key to a fun made for television genre film is to meet audience expectations almost completely. Five Desperate Women does that, for the most part.

This kind of beauty can only be juxtaposed by the worst violence.

Despite the fanciful name, the film is a much more somber affair.

It’s a fascinating and ambiguous chamber piece that strikes a unique balance between psychological horror and surreal fantasy.

Haunting performances from Fugit, Schram, and Campbell dominate My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, one of the most powerful and moving horror movies I’ve seen this year.

Christopher Alender’s new horror feature The Old Ways is an exorcism movie, and it’s great.

My final watch of the Chattanooga Film Festival was the secret screening of the unsettling and atmospheric Black Medusa, a film I knew absolutely nothing about before hitting play.