Director Sam Curtain ensures that a title like Beaten to Death delivers on what it promises with unrelenting violence and nihilism. Curtain’s bleak feature, co-written with Benjamin Jung-Clarke, puts its central...
Bloody Disgusting’s Evil Dead Rise review is spoiler-free. A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates...
Multi-hyphenate writer, director, and star Franklin Ritch introduces a science fiction chamber piece in The Artifice Girl, a heady thriller centered around advanced tech. The inciting mystery...
Director Daphné Baiwir examines not the literary work of prolific author Stephen King but the vast body of ongoing adaptations of King’s work, beginning with 1976’s Carrie, in the documentary King...
Bloody Disgusting’s Dead Island 2 review is spoiler-free. When the first Dead Island released all the way back in 2011 (yes it’s been that long), publisher...
Season one of MGM+s’ propulsive horror series “From” wasted no time going straight for the jugular and maintaining intensity throughout. It culminated in a ruthless shattering of...
Writer/Director Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground) evokes the ’80s creature feature for his sophomore film, The Tank. A simple, self-contained premise serves as the foundation for a creature...
When I was in high school, one of my first jobs was working at a big chain video store. While it was fun to be around...
Episode four of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, “Old Wounds,” picks up with both teen and adult Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress, respectively) regaining control and consciousness. In the present,...
I’ve been a fan of Infernax since it was released in early 2022. While I’m not quite old enough to remember games such as Castlevania II:...
The Pope’s Exorcist draws basis from the books An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories, penned by Catholic priest and exorcist Gabriele Amorth. Screenwriters Michael Petroni (The Rite) and Evan Spiliotopoulos (The...
The original 1931 Universal Monsters movie Dracula opens with an introduction to Renfield (Dwight Frye) as he travels to Transylvania to solidify business plans with Count Dracula...
“Nightmare comedy” is the perfect phrase to describe Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, a darkly funny Kafkaesque odyssey that defies easy categorization. The writer and director of Hereditary and Midsommar is back...
The bizarre Thai slasher Night of the Killer Bears is a mixed bag filled to the brim with blood and guts, so storytelling miscues are easier...
“I think shit is going to get a lot worse out here.” Nat (Sophie Thatcher) says this aloud to what remains of Jackie’s body the day...
Endnight Games’ The Forest has become something of a cult-classic since its 2014 inception. Despite being produced by a small, previously unheard of indie games studio,...
Desperate people do desperate things. This timeless fact of life is plain to see all throughout Beth Hanna and Jerren Lauder’s You’re Killing Me, a teen...
Exorcism horror movies tend to adhere to the blueprint established by The Exorcist, using possession to renew faith among the faithless over the soul of an innocent. Godless:...
The GenMat is close. You’ve run through a hallway of spike traps, flamethrowers and a holographic wall that concealed a pair of hulking brutes ready to...
The season two premiere of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” edged us closer to the long-anticipated turn to cannibalism for the survivors trapped in the wintry wilderness. Shauna (Sophie...
In a rare turn of events, director/co-writer Anthony DiBlasi gives a new update to his own 2014 horror film Last Shift with Malum. DiBlasi reunites with Last Shift co-writer Scott Poiley, creating an...
Smoking Causes Coughing is ostensibly a riff on Power Rangers/Super Sentai, Ultraman, and other tokusatsu-style media in which spandex-clad superheroes battle intergalactic monsters, but — as...
The old, familiar adage defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result feels at home in writer/director Mark Jenkin’s abstract...
Horror’s technological evolution into Screenlife nightmares like Spree or Deadstream continues with Travis Bible’s #chadgetstheaxe, the latest skewer-happy examination of dangerous social media obsessions. It’s becoming...
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