Midwest Film Journal

Tagged Horror

Mandy

Mitch Ringenberg
September 11, 2018

A hallucinatory revenge tale of staggering beauty and exuberant bloodshed.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

Mitch Ringenberg
August 19, 2018

A timeless tale of love and murderous Nazi puppets.

Unfriended: Dark Web

Mitch Ringenberg
July 18, 2018

Foregoes the original's ingenuity in favor of an inane concept.

The First Purge

Nick Rogers
July 4, 2018

A mostly moribund misfire for the franchise.

Hereditary

Mitch Ringenberg
June 9, 2018

A nightmarish portrait of the psychic burdens we pass along to our kin.

The Things We Carry, or ‘A Quiet Place’ Isn’t Just About Monsters

Guest Writer
May 2, 2018

When your life is at stake, so is your heart.

A Quiet Place

Nick Rogers
April 6, 2018

A creature feature with the right ratio of fun to forlorn.

Unsane

Nick Rogers
March 23, 2018

A good split between genre mess-around and mining modern anxieties.

The Strangers: Prey at Night

Nick Rogers
March 11, 2018

Comparatively unambitious but it'll scratch, claw and eviscerate your horror itch.

Schlock Art: Sleepaway Camp

Mitch Ringenberg
February 11, 2018

Schlock Art is where truly tasteless, gleefully grotesque and insanely inventive works of genre cinema are celebrated with unironic fervor.… continue