“It’s a very ‘industry’ festival and you don’t get audiences cheering and jeering and reacting. The goal of the film is to take you through every emotion, from comedy to horror to tragedy, and ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

There’s something undeniably appealing about subversive, boundary-pushing horror cinema. It’s cathartic to see filmmakers deal with heavy themes in a safe space. The Richard Bates Jr. film Excision ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

Man, is it really that time of the year already? You betcha! With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival gearing up to deliver the goods, we’ve started digging around the horror selections for you cats, and ...

Despite it being a whole 13 years since it hit our screens, Richard Bates Jr.’s Excision still exists on the fringes of the horror canon, known to cult fans and festival attendees, but lacking the ...