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.

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.