A woman searches for her missing sister in the dead town of SHELBY OAKS, the debut of film critic Chris Stuckmann.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Strange Darling [2024] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
A man and a woman have a thrilling and surprising cat-and-mouse chase in writer-director JT Mollner’s Strange Darling. Continue reading
Gay, Asian, Immigrant (short) (2021)
A young immigrant coming money lies in order to get a job as he makes himself pass for a different person by perpetuating harmful clichés and stereotypes.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch [1982] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
Tom Atkins, armed with his mustache and a six-pack of beer, joins a murdered man’s daughter to investigate dangerous Halloween masks in one of my favorite cult flicks, Tommy Lee Wallace’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH.
Pitfall (2025) [Screamfest 2025] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
What begins as a simple attempt at reconnection quickly descends into silent terror, transforming an ordinary camping excursion into a harrowing exercise in raw survival, grief, and the brutality of what awaits.
Malpertuis [1971] [Radiance Films] [Halloween Horror Month]
A young man enters a strange and unknowable labyrinth of madness in his uncle’s house in Harry Kumel’s Malpertuis, now out in a gorgeous special edition from Radiance Films.
Deadman’s Barstool [2018] [Anchor Bay UnDISCovered]
Dean Dempsey’s Deadman’s Barstool, a crime comedy from 2018, arrives on Blu-Ray as part of the Anchor Bay “unDISCovered” sub-label.