So many thoughts. My audience hadn’t seen this before? So, lots of great gasps! Lots of thrills! And some broken hearts, no doubt.  

I could listen to the end credits score for an eternity.  

28 Days Later is a really important movie to me and to the craft. After watching 28 Days Later shortly after its initial release in 2002 and learning more about it, I started making my own short films on Mini DV. So, naturally, I…

Toni Collette doused Alex Wolff in gasoline so Sally Hawkins could gaslight Billy Barratt!!

Bleak, gory, and drenched in rain (among other bodily substances), BRING HER BACK is an amalgamation of all the grief horror films of the last decade. I enjoyed this gruesome and visceral tale of loss; prepare to squirm.

I’m afraid that I’m reviewing a movie I was late for! I missed at least the first five minutes, and I highly suspect that really heavy-handed business occurs…

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend  

I love vampires. I think that vampires are the most compelling supernatural creatures that we as humans have decided to tell stories with. These blood-sucking beings have always held prismatic poetry for me. If utilized to their full potential, they can give great meaning to pain, death, and time. Or, viewed from another perspective, the creatures can all be…

This movie oddly teleports me to my 15th summer. I spent that summer in Guatemala reading Dracula for the very first time. The grandparents I stayed with are no longer alive. There aren’t as many reasons to travel to Guatemala now. So, in many ways, this film’s resonance speaks to my own feelings about wishing to connect with the past and my own ancestry.

Today, I’m a 30-something-year-old filmmaker living in Los Angeles, and some of the best movie theaters…