The classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” spins a quick story of a brother and sister caught by a cannibalistic witch. They’re lured by...
From the first trailers and the plot synopsis, Underwater looked and sounded like Alien and the slew of copycats that followed in its wake, particularly of the deep sea...
The first scare in Nicolas Pesce’s The Grudge is so perfunctory you might hardly even notice it. There’s just a ghost in an alleyway, without so...
Everything old is new again, but some are newer than others. Sophia Takal’s daring Black Christmas remake takes elements of Bob Clark’s original 1974 horror classic...
Adam Egypt Mortimer‘s (Some Kind of Hate, the “New Year’s Eve” segment in Holidays) Daniel Isn’t Real might just be the best horror movie playing at the SXSW Film...
Peter Strickland is a master of visual and aural storytelling. The Duke of Burgundy is a sumptuous visual masterpiece that is light on story while Berberian...
It is likely unsurprising that Knives Out, the new mystery from Rian Johnson, is more than meets the eye. Any whodunnit worth its salt has a...
As we approach 2020, it’s fitting to close out the decade with a Hideo Kojima game. Since its debut trailer back at E3 2016, Death Stranding...
I’m not sure what, exactly, I expected of Jennifer Kent‘s follow-up to The Babadook – but The Nightingale wasn’t it. A weighty revenge thriller set in,...
Save for the first two entries in the Terminator franchise, the rest have been a painful disappointment. Each sequel post-Terminator 2: Judgment Day manages to get...
The sheer overwhelming gall it must take to direct a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining – as vaunted a horror masterpiece as any committed to...
Home is where the heart-stopping horror is in Travis Stevens’ fantastic directorial debut Girl on the Third Floor. The new film puts a DIY spin on...
It’s usually a compliment to say that a sequel is better than the original, but when the original is the 2015 film The Gallows, it sounds...
Fans of Robert Eggers’s 2015 horror folklore flick The Witch will be delighted to know that he has managed to pull off a second feat in...
When writer Todd Farmer and director Patrick Lussier team up, it’s usually a sign of good things to come. The pair have previously collaborated on films like Drive Angry...
Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland: Double Tap opens just like the original did, with a voice-over from Jesse Eisenberg telling us all about zombies. But this time he...
Castle Rock’s second season brings Annie Wilkes and Salem’s Lot into the fold and delivers a tense, satisfying season of psychological horror. “She has crazy in...
Say what you will about the movie Maleficent – it was clumsily written and murkily photographed, that’s for sure – but it’s one of the most...
Nickelodeon’s 90s horror anthology series Are You Afraid of the Dark? raised a generation of young horror fans with its teen-centric spooky stories and characters. Each episode,...
Do not be deceived by the title of Doom: Annihilation, or the fact that IMDb claims it “follows” Andrzej Bartkowiak’s mostly-awful Doom. The new film from...
Stephen King and Joe Hill‘s In the Tall Grass is a lean, mean novella. Its simple story allows the shocking graphic violence to have maximum impact....
If you want to see truly horrific gore, Rambo: Last Blood is waiting for you. The fifth installment of the popular action franchise features amputations, mutilations,...
Netflix has had a fairly good track record with original horror titles. Sure, there are a few duds, but with offerings like Apostle, Gerald’s Game, The...
If there’s one thing we’ve all learned about horror movie villains it’s that they can never truly die, but there was still something about the finale...
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