Tom Milligan, Author at Nightmarish Conjurings

[Movie Review] WHEN I CONSUME YOU

There’s a scene in Perry Blackshear’s WHEN I CONSUME YOU where the film’s two leads, siblings Daphne and Wilson, are lying under a bed and

[Tribeca Film Festival Review] ACIDMAN

Running away from home is often associated with the idea that we’re searching for something else. Whether it’s permanently uprooting your life or temporarily stepping

[Tribeca Film Festival Review] FAMILY DINNER

Austrian filmmaker Peter Hengl might have just given us the first definitive Easter horror film. Whereas previous attempts have relied more on the holiday’s contemporary

[Tribeca Film Festival Review] THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS

Robert Machoian’s newest film THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS, as one might presume based on its title, is largely a morality tale. Beneath its foreboding

[Video Game Review] IKAI

Back in 2018, I worked part-time at an escape room spot in Manhattan. We had four rooms to choose from and our most popular one

[Movie Review] WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING

If horror films are a reflection of contemporary social issues, we should all brace ourselves for an onslaught of quarantine panic-stricken chillers and thrillers like WE

[Movie Review] CAVEAT

Damian Mc Carthy’s CAVEAT is part of a proud lineage of horror films that asks the age-old question, “What would you do to make a

[Video Game Review] GENESIS NOIR

How far would you go for love? Would you go to the ends of the Earth? Would you travel across time and space? Would you

[Movie Review] THE TANGLE

It’s the not-too-distant future. Set in a sprawling California metropolis, skyscrapers and neon-drenched architecture pollute the horizon. A pulsating, dynamic synth score sets the mood

[Video Game Review] AMNESIA: REBIRTH

I’ve never been more scared of reviewing a piece of media than I have been for AMNESIA: REBIRTH. Its predecessor, Amnesia: The Dark Descent,

Author: Tom Milligan