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Won Ton Baby!
“In the end Won Ton Baby! falls short of its goal of bringing you back to the days of sex filled gore fests that your parents didn’t want you to see, the sort of films you’d sneak up in the middle of the night to catch on the pay per view movie channels.”
Thirty years ago, brothel owner, Rachel “Madam” Won Ton (Debbie Rochon) had the night of her life with one of her most notorious customers a man known only as “E”. After a night of crazy sex and major drug use Madam Won Ton becomes pregnant and makes the decision to leave the life behind and raise her child Lily the right way. Flash forward, Lily now grown up finds herself carrying a parasitic twin that has to be removed from her stomach in the form of a fully developed fetus with homicidal tendencies. Won Ton Baby is not your typical cute bundle of joy, but instead a mutated creature of pure repulsion that highlights the indie horror comedy Won Ton Baby!, from Suzi Lorraine (Claang the Game, Holocaust, Holocaust) and first time director James Morgart.
I had been looking forward to seeing Won Ton Baby! for some time now so when it appeared in my mail box I could not wait to pop it in and give it a go. An hour and thirty some minutes later I find myself wondering what just happened almost as if I was abducted by aliens and taken far away and had my memory altered with tidbits of useless footage. But sadly that is not the case at all, the truth is I just sat through Won Ton Baby! one of the most unhumorous horror comedies I have had the displeasure of watching in a very long time.
Relaying heavy on name dropping to peak your interest with such genre favorites as Gunner Hansen, who is in the movie for a whole ten minutes or so Won Ton Baby! quickly, wears on the viewers’ last nerve as they hopelessly wait for something entertaining to happen. The first thirty minutes of the film seem to drag on for ages, twice I checked to see how far into the film I was during the opening wishing on everything mystical in the world for something anything to happen that would push the story forward. Finally Won Ton Baby made his appearance and wet get our first real glimpse at the special effects side of the film.
The special effects in Won Ton Baby! is its only strong feature, a true nod to old school eighties splatter, ultra cheesy but effective practical effects that give the flick a retro gross factor that I really enjoyed. When it comes to blood and gore Won Ton Baby delivers but that is not enough to make a movie a pleasurable experience in the end.
The comedy aspect of Won Ton Baby! in the most simplest of terms is just not funny at all, their “shocking” and “edgy” gags are to predictable and over the top to ever come off as anything short of boring and cliché. The movie spends too much time trying to take itself serious causing the so called comedic relief segments to just come off as the products of a poorly written script and an weak attempt at rekindling the eighties B grade drive-in sleaze that made the era so popular among gore hounds.
In the end Won Ton Baby! falls short of its goal of bringing you back to the days of sex filled gore fests that your parents didn’t want you to see, the sort of films you’d sneak up in the middle of the night to catch on the pay per view movie channels. If you really feel the need to take a journey back to your youth or want to see what kind of horror your parents watched when they were teenagers do yourself a favor and simply view a film authentically from the era and pass on Won Ton Baby!
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
This week’s new release roundups are presented by HUNGRY.
All aboard the swamp tour from hell – this hippo isn’t playing games…
HUNGRY is now available on Digital. Watch it now!
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