Jacob Dunstan is a writer and Communications graduate with years of accumulated knowledge when it comes to film and TV. He has continued to build acting experience (having enjoyed many on-set ...
Among the 10 tenets of Dogme 95—the late, not terribly lamented manifesto a group of Danish directors (Lars von Trier chief among them) authored to shape their resolution to embrace a simpler, more ...
" Session 9 is one of my favorites," says Cummings. "It's about an asbestos-cleaning crew in an insane asylum in Massachusetts that has fallen into disrepair and is empty — quote, unquote. They go in ...
The state of the horror film improved drastically at the turn of the millennium. There were still plenty of uninspired slasher flicks cluttering multiplexes, but an up-and-coming generation of ...
Invariably, working for sites such as Dread Central, I am always asked the question, “What is the scariest movie you have ever seen?” And, well, truth be told, movies don’t tend to scare me that often ...
The Blair Witch anomaly excepted, intelligent low-budget independent and foreign horror films are the orphans of the theatrical market, too obscure for the multiplex and largely dismissed by the ...
Session 9 is the first film released from director Brad Anderson after his lovely 1998 breakthrough, the bossa nova sparked ”Next Stop Wonderland,” and this movie is so different in tone that the ...
Although aimed at restoring the psychological horror movie to full life after years of dormancy, "Session 9" is little more than an overworked exercise in jostling red herrings, and not particularly ...