There’s a mystery at the heart of Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At The Place of Ghosts), a Canadian Indigenous thriller about a pair of Mi’kmaw brothers who have been...
The Original Grindhouse. After delivering a warning about white after Labor Day with John Waters’ Serial Mom (listen) and revisiting the original Troma trashterpiece, The Toxic Avenger (listen),...
The Man In My Basement begins with an intriguing proposition: if you were in a tight financial position and a rich eccentric showed up, essentially offering...
Spoilers for Episode 4 of Alien: Earth to follow. After spending 2.5 episodes dealing with the fall-out of the crash of the Maginot, including the two-part...
After opening with the month with a primer (listen) on Ed and Lorraine Warren, Jenn and I have spent August tackling their first few cinematic adventures....
It’s been a whirlwind August on Murder Made Fiction. We’ve spent most of the month on a deep dive into Ed and Lorraine Warren, starting with...
A Killer Satire. In August we’ve already been to the beach with Robert Lee King’s camp classic Psycho Beach Party (listen) and to Australia with Peter Weir’s...
After helming some of the most significant practical effect horror films of the ’80s, writer/director Chuck Russell (The Blob, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream...
Hawley’s Philosophical Debate. When it was announced that Noah Hawley was working on an Alien series set on Earth for FX & Disney, there was equal...
The cover of Hailey Piper’s A Game in Yellow features a woman in profile from the chest up, bent over…and melting. It’s an apt visual for...
Homage to Gidget. After spending July discussing slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (listen), supernatural giallo film Phenomena (listen), and entry #2 in Park Chan-wook revenge...
It’s evident early on what kind of influences Bears Rebecca Fonté is drawing on for her sophomore feature film, How Far Does The Dark Go? The...
There’s just something about a cursed doll movie. Japanese writer/director Shinobu Yaguchi’s entry in the sub genre, Dollhouse (2025), doesn’t reinvent the wheel so much as...
There’s a telling moment around halfway through writer/director Chloé Cinq-Mars’s Peau à Peau (Nesting) that cuts to the heart of the film. The main character Pénélope (Rose-Marie...
We kicked off the summer with a look at Steven Spielberg’s classic creature feature Jaws (listen) before checking out our first Jean Rollin lesbian “vampire” movie...
Several films screening at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival explore the idea that teen girls are not alright, including The Serpent’s Skin, Foreigner, and Lucid. Read on...
The idea of visiting a confirmed witch who lives in the woods is prime real estate for a horror text, which makes it a solid concept...
Shark Month continues on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. Following our cross-over with Horror Queers on 1975’s Jaws, Norwegian film, Kon-Tiki (2012), and 2003’s Open Water, we’re...
It’s always enjoyable to watch a simple premise taken to outrageous lengths, particularly when the film in question is aware of how silly it is. That’s...
Tits Out. We transitioned from Pride Month discussions of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (listen) and ’90s nostalgia in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie (listen) into...
Shark Month is in full swing on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. We kicked things on when Jenn guest starred on an episode of Horror Queers...
A covert late night mission to secure a bunch of drugs dropped in the ocean goes horribly awry when sharks attack the boat. That’s the opening...
For more than two years, Joe Lipsett has dissected Amityville Horror films to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The...
There’s a hypnotic dreaminess to several sequences in director Justin Kelly’s new film, Pretty Thing. Aided immensely by a twinkly harp and piano score courtesy of...
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