FURMAN ON FILM

This review may contain spoilers. As close friends recently told me as I was just spitballing about my gut-level reactions immediately...

I wanted to love this film, but, alas, I merely ended up liking it. See, the real trouble is, I think it’s the very construction of the...

In a film aimed at shocking the audiences of its time with a tale of familial disquiet inside a home besieged by any number of dark...

This review may contain spoilers. The Omen is a conflation of opposites - a film that is at once significantly dated by today's...

From the moment I first encountered it, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street has always been a cornucopia of delights for me....

HAUNTED HOUSES, DEMONIC POSSESSION, VAMPS, WOLVES, FOUND FOOTAGE, AND MASKED KILLERS - A 60+ YEAR LEGACY OF TERROR ON CELLULOID...

This is one of the best horror films I have EVER seen, and I’m not exaggerating in the least. I’ve spent the better part of a week...

In A Quiet Place, director John Krasinski accomplishes a truly remarkable feat. It's one of his earliest outings behind the camera, yet...

This review may contain spoilers. With The Brood, David Cronenberg stepped boldly into the second phase of his career. Armed with a much...

May 23, 1980 The central conceit of TWIM, birthed from the expansive brain of my friend and its creator, Scott Sipling, explores the...

Since the seminal work of 1999, The Blair Witch Project, the found footage genre of horror has admittedly lost some of its luster. It...

This review may contain spoilers. Not surprisingly, it seems most of the dialogue centered around Possessor at the time of its release...

Much like Lanthimos’ The Lobster the previous year, I cannot even begin to recommend this film to a wide audience. It’s not about...

What’s the oldest horror trope in the book? Anyone? How ‘bout this…every horror movie begins with two (generally white) people having...

Joe Dante is a freaking legend. I don't care that many people hardly know his name. Nor do I mind that his filmography frequently yo-yo's...

Aliens is about as impressive a coming out party as you will ever find for a director. But it is decidedly that. For after the modest...

The story of Midsommar, for me, actually begins a year previously. It was 2018, and I was staring blankly as the credits of Ari Aster's...

Of all the films released in 2017, none balanced unchartered creativity with tremendous nuts and bolts execution as well as Get Out – a...