Television and film currently exist during an often-cynical era in which intellectual property and brand recognition often mean more than a good idea. It’s the new normal for everything from Four Weddings and a Funeral to Boomerang to receive television adaptations. There’s more money in prequels to Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen than there is […]
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The home invasion subgenre can be such a potent horror vehicle because there’s something inherently terrifying about having one’s personal space invaded. This experience is frightening in whatever form it takes, yet these intrusive horror stories have still found ways to become more subversive with where they take their audience. Darren Lynn Bousman’s Twisted definitely […]
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The bizarre experiment that is The Strangers reboot trilogy has finally reached its end. Madelaine Petsch’s exhausted final girl Maya has been on the run for one night of grueling hell, stretched far too thin across three separate films. However, instead of a full circle reckoning, The Strangers: Chapter 3 crawls toward its confused conclusion. […]
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Brazilian horror comedy Bowels of Hell gleefully keeps its head in the toilet in its gross-out depiction of an apartment building so caught up in its own crap that they don’t notice disgustingly cursed plumbing until it’s too late. Writers/Directors Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre don’t hold back on gag-inducing potty horror, creating a strange […]
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Effective found footage storytelling requires a delicate balance of narrative structure and chaotic realism. After all, if you make your movie too realistic, it’ll likely be about as entertaining as keeping up with a nanny cam. On the other hand, if you try to inject the story with too many of the usual tropes and […]
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Few directors have as much fun splattering their cast with as much goop and viscera as possible as director Sam Raimi. One can practically picture the amused filmmaker guffawing behind the camera in pure amusement as leads Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange) and Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) receive a few blood or vomit canons to […]
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The end of the world is an endless fount of genre stories, because there are endless ways in which to imagine our fates as the scaffolding of our daily lives crumbles. The world can end with bombs, with zombies, with sickness, and in precarious times (hello 2026), we can all imagine what we’d do when […]
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Comic books have been a source for video game adaptations for as long as I can remember. I have core memories of playing games like Batman Returns on the SNES and the X-Men arcade game growing up, which pushed me towards my lifelong love of comics. Flash-forward 30+ years and now comic books are dominating […]
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Just as tension over immigration reaches a boiling point in our country, Two Sentence Horror Stories‘ writer-director Vera Miao‘s sobering feature debut arrives to trace a grim but familiar line between America’s violent past and present. Rock Springs explores over a century’s worth of racial trauma through a Chinese-American family, though the historical horror here […]
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As if to prove that body horror is in fashion, Sundance 2026’s Midnight lineup features not one but two films that find new ways for the human body to repulse. Whereas Saccharine lambasted diet culture with a personal touch, New Zealand horror comedy Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant instead wields an extraterrestrial pregnancy for body horror […]
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Filmmaker Casper Kelly (V/H/S/Halloween, Adult Swim Yule Log) drops viewers straight into the world of a kids’ show with Buddy, a high-concept horror comedy that dials up the absurdities of kids’ television programming to a lethal degree. Those on board with an experimental structure, tonal shifts, and Kelly’s darkly playful sense of humor will find […]
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The Old Testament’s Book of Leviticus has a lot to say about sin and uncleanliness, as well as ritual purity and atonement. The priests within the book, itself a moral metaphor, were frequently corrupt and evil. It’s the perfect title for writer-director Adrian Chiarella‘s powerful feature debut, a searing anthem against the corrosive nature of […]
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Relic filmmaker Natalie Erica James is back with another haunting horror metaphor rooted in the personal. Saccharine gives a supernatural twist to the current body horror trend, taking aim at disordered eating and the diet culture that exploits it. Like Relic, James’ latest operates on a sustained sense of dread that goes far, even when […]
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Before settling in for a fun tale of gory bear encounters and dispensable campers, audiences should prepare themselves for a different kind of movie. Grizzly Night is not about having a good time, seeing as how the horror of reality weighs heavily on everything, even from an early start. The cold open has an apt […]
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“Beauty is pain, my friend.” There’s a line early on in The Beauty’s first season where a character exclaims, “Beautiful people don’t think that the rules apply to them.” It often feels like Ryan Murphy operates the same way with how he constructs a season of television. The Beauty is a Ryan Murphy show, for […]
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