Tag: Arthouse

Pandemonium (2023) – By Baron Craze

June 11, 2024
Film Reviews

Some would dismiss Pandemonium as merely a well-hidden anthology movie however, it is much more than that, as it disguises its own art-house religious horror philosophy with deep seeded morality battles and some French uniqueness; writer and director Quarxx, generating a narrow glimpse of hell, and uses John Milton’s Paradise Lost’s Capital of Hell for…

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Sisters of the Plague (2015) – By Baron Craze

January 31, 2021
Other Worldly Cinema

New Orleans appears more as a backdrop than a setting in the art-house horror film Sisters of the Plague, which frankly is a tad strange, especially knowing of an area surrounded and shrouded in mysteries, murders, and several secrets, which might arise from the darkness on any given night. However, director Jorge Torres-Torres (Shadow Zombie…

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The Beach House (2019) – By Baron Craze

December 20, 2020
Film Reviews

First, on this site we discuss various subgenres, it’s not just slashers or zombies we tend to dive into the unique corners of the horror realm, discovering or unearthing those unusual creations, The Beach House is just one of those, it presents itself as a H.P. Lovecraft, but plays as arthouse horror. It is not…

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Peeping Tom (1960) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Articles

No one truly sets out to create a cult movie, rather takes a number outside factors that achieve this, often it does something unruly or unorthodox against societal norms to achieve this status, but it often comes at a financial cost or reputation sometimes both, and that was the impact it had with filmmaker Michael…

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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Other Worldly Cinema

As many know from reading reviews and article on this site, I cover the many subgenres of Horror, and one of niches is that of confusing subject called arthouse horror a changing grouping of films. Some find themselves profound, others inspire others, while many conduct society perceive norms often enough, the writers, directors, and creators…

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Mandy (2018) – By Baron Craze

October 10, 2018
Film Reviews

Revenge themed movies, hold a special secure footing in the horror genre, however this movie balances the line of revenge and straight-up horror quite well, while continues the same path of arthouse horror, that director and writer Panos Cosmatos, did with his first movie while setting in the same year of 1983. A truly a…

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James Quinn’s Daughter of Dismay – Horror News

August 31, 2018
Horror News

James Quinn to Direct Most Ambitious Project to Date First Short Film Shot on 65mm Daughter of Dismay to be Filmed in September   Austria –Sodom & Chimera Productions has announced principal photography of Daughter of Dismay starting on September 22nd deep in the Austrian woods as the latest blending of arthouse and horror from experimental filmmaker James Quinn. Of his…

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The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2018
Other Worldly Cinema

An excerpt of a suicide note is how The Forest of the Lost Souls starts, from first feature director and writer José Pedro Lopes (World of Death [2016]), with his Portuguese flick done in black and white. This arthouse horror drama gives deep penetrating drama, depressive however, this movie simmers slowly, with a limited cast, as it…

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Excess Flesh (2015) – by Baron Craze

March 21, 2018
Archived Reviews

Director Patrick Kennelly and his co-writer Sigrid Gilmer explore a mixture of body shaming and food porn under the guise of an arthouse film, from Midnight Releasing, with a deep dramatic thriller on a topic that truly affects the lives of many women and plagues their psychological mindset of survivability in today’s self-absorbed vanity. It…

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