Category: Film Reviews

By Scott Dorward Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Italy, 1972) “Murder has a habit of involving all sorts of people for no reason.” OK, I admit it. The…

By Scott Dorward The Dead Center (USA, 2019) “What is it that’s inside of you?” Horror is a broad church, if a profane one. Largely by accident, my choices this month have been dominated by…

By Scott Dorward Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (USA, 1972) “Does it hurt?” “Only when I laugh! No, seriously, it does hurt.” When I was seven years old, my mother taught me how to make scrambled…

By Scott Dorward The Mortuary Collection (USA, 2019) “Someone commits a sin, they pay a horrible price. Rinse, repeat.” I am a sucker for portmanteau films. For a long time, it’s felt like their day…

By Scott Dorward Evolution (France, 2015) “You know, my mother’s not my mother either.” The only things I knew about Evolution beforehand were that it was French, it involved the sea, and that it was…