Scott Weinberg
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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The Best Horror Movies of 2021 (So Far)
These are the must-watch scarefests of the year so far. → Read More
The Best Horror Movies of 2020 (So Far), Ranked
It has already been a great year for high-quality horror. Here's what to prioritize. → Read More
Will Forte Shines as Doug Kenney in A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE (Review)
A few years back we got a colorful, compelling, and long overdue documentary about the infamous National Lampoon magazine called Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead. → Read More
DAVE MADE A MAZE Is Like a Homemade LABYRINTH for Adults (Review)
We all enjoy conventional movies sometimes. There's something sort of comforting about the familiarity of most "tentpole" blockbusters -- and there's a reason → Read More
Doug Glatt Returns! Goon: Last of the Enforcers (review)
From out of the frozen North it arrived in 2011: a simple-looking and unassuming sports movie that said "Hey, you know what? There hasn't been a great hockey → Read More
Movie Music Magic Casts a Spell in SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY (Review)
Try to imagine your favorite film without its score. Not just undisputed classics like Bernard Herrmann's Psycho or John Williams' Jaws, but pretty much any → Read More
OKJA is a Masterful Blend of Sweet, Salty, and Satirical (Review)
Genre fans will of course know Bong Joon-ho from the consistently intense Memories of Murder (2003), the wonderfully weird The Host (2006), the subtly → Read More
It’s Not Your Typical Post-Apocalypse in IT COMES AT NIGHT (Review)
Imagine a particularly impressive indie zombie movie -- only with all the zombies removed. No biting, no "infected," no gore, and no traditional zombie "action" → Read More
KEDI is Like a Feature-Length Cat Video—Only Better! (Review)
If the internet has taught us one absolute truth, it's that people love cat videos. Even people who don't love cats all that much (yes, they do exist) will find → Read More
Evil Invades an Australian Neighborhood in HOUNDS OF LOVE (Review)
Fictional horrors are relatively easy to concoct, but real-life horrors are the ones we often struggle to comprehend. Vampires and werewolves are scary in a → Read More
Grief Battles Faith in the Resoundingly Creepy A DARK SONG (Review)
A dismissive or simplistic review of A Dark Song could capably describe the film like this: It's about two unpleasant strangers who spend a year in the same → Read More
Two Brothers (Unwisely) Revisit an Old Cult in THE ENDLESS (Tribeca FF Review)
There's something innately disconcerting about cults, which is why they often serve as the backdrop for some memorably effective indie thrillers. Highly → Read More
FIVE CAME BACK Shines a Fascinating Light on Five Heroic Filmmakers (REVIEW)
Can you imagine five of Hollywood's most successful directors putting their careers on hold so they can go overseas to document the deadliest war ever waged? It → Read More
Kidnapping Turns to Carnage in THE HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (Review)
It's always fun when a genre flick switches gears in Act II. Like how Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn is a hard-boiled kidnapping thriller until they → Read More
Genre Past and Present Collide Blissfully in Brilliant THE LOVE WITCH (Review)
There's so much to admire about Anna Biller's The Love Witch that one barely knows where to begin. On a purely surface level, it's a darkly comedic thriller → Read More
MAYHEM Reveals the Gorier Side of Office Politics (SXSW Review)
The worst part about working in an office has to be the people. Not all of them, of course. Thankfully there are usually some pretty cool people at the office - → Read More
Horror Import PREVENGE Marks the Arrival of One Bad Mother (Review)
We've seen all sorts of slasher movies over the years, but there's never been all that much diversity where the actual slashers are concerned. Most of the → Read More
8 Horror Movies Critics Hated That Are Actually Amazing
Rotten Tomatoes scores be damned. Even cult favorites and horror classics were once maligned in bad reviews. See these movies. → Read More
The Best Horror Movies of 2016
Maybe you saw 'Don't Breathe,' 'Lights Out,' or 'The Witch.' But 2016 had even more terror to offer. → Read More
COLOSSAL Melds Kaiju Disasters with Indie Rom-Coms (Review)
Now here's an odd one. Got any interest in seeing a movie in which Anne Hathaway plays a woman with a drinking problem who comes to realize that she has somehow → Read More