Amylou Ahava, Author at Nightmarish Conjurings

[Movie Review] POSER

The slur of poser often gets thrown around by gatekeeping members of different art forms or fandoms as they deem anyone with less experience or

[Series Review] DARK WINDS

From 1970 to 2006, white American author Tony Hillerman published 18 books that focused on the fictional Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn (and later added

[Overlook Film Festival Review] ZALAVA

1978 Iran before the revolution… A century ago a band of gypsies traveling from east to west settled in Zalava and became acquainted with the

[Overlook Film Festival Review] THE SUMMONED

A very old horror story tells the decline of Faust, who sells his soul to the devil in order to gain power and knowledge. Instead

[Overlook Film Festival Review] GOOD MADAM

Certain countries (and languages) are largely underrepresented or completely absent from the horror genre, so when the Xhosa-speaking South African movie GOOD MADAM showed up

[Overlook Film Festival Review] SWALLOWED

World premiering at The 2022 Overlook Film Festival, Carter Smith brings a very intense and proudly gay piece of cinema to the big screen with

[Overlook Film Festival Review] WHO INVITED THEM?

Is there a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? genre? How do we classify movies like this? You know, movies that involve two couples (not familiar

[Overlook Film Festival Review] THE COW

Medical anomalies or even simply differing from the perceived norm can often drive people to seek out any possible solution for themselves or their loved

[Panic Fest 2022 Review] MASKING THRESHOLD

Many love the cinematic experience of catching a film on the big screen. Since the start of the pandemic, we had to put any public

[Panic Fest 2022 Review] WHEN THE SCREAMING STARTS

In the continually growing true crime fandom, the focus of the shows went from telling stories to glorifying killers. Long ago these programs shifted away

Author: Amylou Ahava