Julieann Stipidis, Author at Nightmarish Conjurings

[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

[Movie Review] COVENANT

A man travels to an abandoned cabin in the woods after his late mother— who had an association with a cult— dies mysteriously and unexpectedly…a

[Brooklyn Horror Interview] Director Adam Egypt Mortimer & Co-Writer Brian DeLeeuw for DANIEL ISN’T REAL (Part 2)

DANIEL ISN’T REAL, arguably one of the most colorful (in more ways than one) horror films to descend its way onto 2019, will finally be

[Blood in the Snow Review] Z

There’s a reason why we keep coming back to the “Something’s not right with that kid” subgenre of horror movies: there are few things that

Author: Julieann Stipidis