The Gates (2008)

Coralie Fargeat once said that “Being a woman is body horror,” and when you think about the ways we are taught to experience our own bodies, it becomes almost impossible to argue with her.

The horror franchise that had moviegoers watching behind their fingers but on the edge of their seats. The Conjuring quartet released its final installment this year, and it did not disappoint.

Elsewhere is less than fourteen minutes long, but it delivers a more emotional impact than most feature-length films. 

Vivarium is an uncomfortable and startling look at how easily progress devolves in the face of overwhelming stress.

This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.