Backrooms: A Scary Film With A Lot Of Depth

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By on Aug 5th, 2026

Backrooms as a horror movie asks an important question: “How scary, really, can you make an environment?” The answer—as it turns out—is very scary. As long as you make sure the location is both uncanny enough and has a strong enough sense of unseen threats, even a series of mostly yellow walls and yellow floors and awful fluorescent lights can become riveting. A slow pan to a dark hallway where you can hear something trudging around is infinitely scarier than any slasher villain I’ve ever seen.

The Running Man Eventually Runs Out Of Steam

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By on Jul 29th, 2026

I’m reviewing The Running Man from an odd perspective, and it only feels fair to warn you of that if you’re going to read this review. Simply put, I’ve not read the book—I’m not even that familiar with Stephen King’s work, all told. Further, I’ve not even seen the previous adaptation. My experience with the death game genre comes from my deep love of The Hunger Games franchise.

SciFi IRL: From Indie to Epic

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By on Jul 13th, 2026

Why “Independent” Doesn’t Have to Mean “Small” Anymore For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with independent artists in music, film, television, visual art, fashion, and plenty of places in between. I’ve seen the same painful pattern over and over. Someone has talent. They have ideas. They may even have the connections to get in…

The Doomies: A New Spooky Kid Show

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By on Jul 8th, 2026

The Doomies falls under a growing subset of shows, at least in my experience. A new slew of creatives are trickling into the industry, some of them my age or—more likely—younger, and with them comes reexaminations of classic tropes and storylines while still making things ultimately of very similar ilk to what came before. History, even in art, rhymes.

Hoppers: Actually Hilarious

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By on Jul 1st, 2026

Hoppers is exquisitely weird. It starts off with very familiar patterns to many, many Pixar movies. Its most direct connection being Up. We have a main character who lost someone dear to them who is heavily associated with a specific location that is then threatened by some external force. The main character is then given a goal (with a deadline) that, if they succeed, will let them save their beloved space.