Julieann Stipidis, Author at Nightmarish Conjurings

[Docu-Series Review] FALL RIVER

The Satanic Panic provided a source of widespread, go-to blame for many in the 1980s, including fanatical religious zealots and conservatives, as well as negligent

[Movie Review] HAPPILY

Unsatisfying, dead-end marriages have been explored and beaten with a switch within contemporary Americana film— married couples reach middle age, resent each other, die miserably,

[Movie Review] WILLY’S WONDERLAND

“It’s your birthday,” the animatronic Five Night’s at Freddy’s lookalikes menacingly sing in Kevin Lewis’ WILLY’S WONDERLAND. It’s all of our birthdays during this 90-minute

[Movie Review] KINDRED

Familiarity can be a help or a hindrance to genre films— the audience can either feel comforted or bored by tropes and narratives they’ve seen

[Movie Review] RENT-A-PAL

Loneliness has been our collective, unasked-for friend for 2020. As most semblances of sociality have, quite literally, been canceled, most of us have sacrificed our

[Blu-ray/DVD Review] WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS

You mention 1) a metal-horror movie (with rarely seen female protagonists!) 2) a Satanic Panic backdrop, and 3) set in the ’80s. Say no more.

[Documentary Review] TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL-TIME VOL. 2

Underappreciated for its time, didn’t perform well at the box office, found its audience later, midnight screenings— all of these phrases get tossed around the

[Documentary Review] TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL-TIME Vol.1

Underappreciated for its time, didn’t perform well at the box office, found its audience later, midnight screenings— all of these phrases get tossed around the

[Movie Review] WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS

You mention 1) a metal-horror movie (with rarely seen female protagonists!) 2) a Satanic Panic backdrop, and 3) set in the ’80s. Say no more.

[Nightmarish Detour Review] COME AS YOU ARE

A humanizing, buddy road trip/sex comedy that is never gross-out or vile like many of its predecessors from the past, Richard Wong’s COME AS YOU

Author: Julieann Stipidis