J.B. Spins

Monsters are like bad movies. Nobody intentionally sets out to make either one, but they happen anyway. In this case, Vicaria’s intentions a...

This film is a lot like Te rms of Endearment, The Joy Luck Club, and Mermaids , except the mother and daughter are witches. Technically, the...

It is hard to enjoy “La Nuit des Enfants,” Morocco’s annual children’s night festival, when you are a child bride married to a creepy sixty-...

In 2021, Germany perversely specialized in inflicting misery on Europe. Much to the free world’s chagrin, they forced through Nord Stream 2,...

Catherine's moody ambient-techno music is the stuff teen girls listen to during suicide attempts. It doesn’t have the warming passion of...

A lot of people who once thought they loved Kevin Smith’s Clerks have long since forgotten how much it sucks to work retail. Here’s a film t...

The recent boom of horror films from Southeast Asia makes sense, since countries like Malaysia and Indonesia have Islamic, Shamanistic, and ...

They have something like Ouija boards in Japan too, but traditionally they invoke trickster animal spirits, sort of like Coyote in the Ameri...

This is truly a Michael Myers film for the Biden years. The chaos we watched unfold in the Kabul airport and the anarchy we try to ignore ev...

Shamanism in Southeast Asia represents a general fusion of early animist beliefs with Buddhist stylistic trappings. There are ample examples...

Judith Albright is checking into an assisted living facility housed in a converted mansion. The architecture is early American gothic and th...

Never take collectors lightly, because they know how to get what they want. That is especially true of old school VHS collectors. Indeed, th...

It is the land where they shot The Lord of the Rings , but this ultra-violent NZ film will make you think twice about visiting as a tourist....

Combining a knock-off Necronomicon -style book of evil with carny folk always means trouble. In this film, some of the nicest people happen...

Little Leah's home life is so awful, the arrival of a ghost almost brings some relief—almost, but not really. Nobody in her family liste...

A man from the city finds himself stranded in a quaint village, where they kill him in a ritual sacrifice. There, that’s folk horror for you...

Remember when your gruff driver’s ed. teacher told you to “drive defensively?” That was good advice. Dutch father Hans does not follow it, e...

When you think about it, the premise of Home Alone —an elementary school aged kid cheerfully fighting off home invaders—should have been pre...

Aicha Kandisha is like a Moroccan Bloody Mary, but ironically, she has a more feminist attitude. She is invoked in a similar Candyman style,...

In North Africa, they take witchcraft seriously—like Salem serious. That is how Tunisia’s (believed to be) first horror movie halfway credib...