The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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Here you will find a collection of my reviews.
One of the most powerful things about horror movies is their ability to examine heavy topics in a way that distracts you from the topic. It isn’t that they don’t want you to know what they are saying but that the filmmakers are wise enough to know that the best way to examine something, something… Continue reading CHILDREN OF THE PINES – movie review
As a fan of Stephen King, ‘Salem’s Lot has always been one of my two favorite books of his, along with The Shining. I love most of his books that I have read but those two always felt like two of the very scariest. As such, I am a fan of the films made of… Continue reading ‘SALEM’S LOT (2024)
The supernatural is a tried and true topic for found footage films and horror movies, and with reason. It is our fear of not just our physical selves but our metaphysical selves that keeps many of us awake at night. The fear that not only could something happen to our body, but also to our… Continue reading NAME THE DEMON – found footage review
It's been interesting over the years to note how "found footage" has infiltrated so many different types of media. To a degree, it was already there with ghost hunter shows, but with the growth of survialist television shows and monster hunting shows you saw more and more of the techniques of found footage and mockumentaries… Continue reading HIMALAYA – found footage review
Full transparency, I know director Geno McGahee. I met him in a terribly embarrassing way. I reviewed a film of Geno’s years and years ago called RISE OF THE SCARECROWS and I slagged it in a really petty, mean-spirited way. He was good enough to reach out to me after to thank me for the… Continue reading SCARY TALES – Dark Walker – review
It’s so interesting seeing how influencer culture has become such a prevalent part of found footage. It makes sense in that it has become such a huge part of modern American society. People wanting others to see their lives, acknowledge their lives, and follow their lives. Needing to be seen and wanting to turn our… Continue reading MILK & SERIAL – found footage review
The term elevated horror is the sort of silliness that only comes from embarrassed actors, directors, and production companies that don’t want their hands dirtied by a genre like horror. They love making their money from the fans but don’t want to admit to having made a dirty horror film. There have always been horror… Continue reading Broken Bird – movie review
As I have said before, one of the great things about found footage films is that it isn’t about the budget, it’s about the ambition. If you are committed to the story and have some ingenuity you can pull off almost anything. Saying that, you still need to put the work in. With the first… Continue reading TAHOE JOE 2 – The Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Conspiracy – found footage review
I watch a fair share of movies, I just don't review them all. I figure everyone else is handling that, but, well, for the sake of the slacks... ALIEN: ROMULUS A refried re-hash of the rest of the films in the main series that just works. It has a great lead performance, a crackling pace,… Continue reading Movie Review – New Movie Quick Hits
Well, this is a nice change of pace - a found-footage crime film. I have seen them before, but they are pretty few a far between. There’s more chance of a profit from a horror film, as horror geeks will just about watch anything. I have to admit though that making a drama, or a… Continue reading THE ESSEX BOYS TAPES – found footage
I find it hard to wrap my head around parents today. On one hand, they fret and worry over ‘predators’ and ‘grooming’ and want to safeguard their kids from the world all while they create social media accounts for them so they can be ‘influencers’ and followed by strangers. It’s weird. On one hand it… Continue reading LIFE OF BELLE – found footage review
There is something wholly insidious about how humans have found ways to weaponize every last thing we rely on to reach out into the world. As technology has evolved, so too have abusers and stalkers, and with a strong online support system of like-minded sickos, it’s become a scary time for a lot of people.… Continue reading RATTER – found footage review
There is something about the European moors that I am not sure Americans can fully understand. In its way, it’s like the American desert, a vast area where nothing human can really live (easily), which is unforgiving in its nature. What we can’t get is how vast and dangerous the moors are, in ways that… Continue reading THE MOOR – movie review
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