Musicals are something of a unicorn in the horror genre: a rare beast that can be extremely hit (Phantom of the Paradise, The Lure) or miss (Stage Fright). So when a film from Estonia called Chainsaws Were Singing comes along, it feels like a reason to pay attention. Director Sander Maran and co-writer Karl Ilves […]
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In Steven Kostanski’s latest film, the worst thing that someone can call Conor (Conor Sweeney) is square. The ’90s-set comedy horror movie revolves around an uptight married businessman whose idea of intimacy is holding *a* hand in bed and using a different color font in a work presentation. He’s married to Kristina (Kristy Wordsworth), a […]
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Seeing isn’t always believing in The Chapel, the latest film from Piggy writer/director Carlota Pereda. Written by Pereda, as well as Albert Bertran Bas and Carmelo Viera, The Chapel is a supernatural drama about intergenerational trauma between mothers and their daughters. The film opens in 1631 in a small Spanish town that is besieged by […]
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“It’s not a remake. It’s not a sequel. And it’s not based on a Japanese one.” Hatchet‘s festival tagline — a quote from a major studio’s rejection of the film — served as a rally cry for horror fans. Despite its roots planted firmly in practical effects-driven ’80s slashers a la Friday the 13th, Hatchet […]
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Writer/Director Daniel Kokotajlo adheres to classic folk horror convention with Starve Acre, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurly. It’s not just the 1970s rural setting or spiritual locals that call to mind foundational films like The Wicker Man but the methodical unfurling of its folklore and escalating horror. It makes for a stunning throwback feature […]
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There are plenty of games about the horrors of war. Spec Ops: The Line famously forces you into morally unthinkable positions as a soldier. This War of Mine throws you in the shoes of a civilian trying to survive in a city under siege. Few games have ever used the lens of the survival horror […]
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It’s not the man afflicted with lycanthropy who struggles to come to terms with his inner wolf in The Beast Within. Instead, it’s his family that’s forced to interrogate what it means to live with an occasional monster in the narrative debut of filmmaker Alexander J. Farrell. Farrell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Ellison, wields […]
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When it comes to found footage horror, films that manage to successfully deliver scares while also following characters that feel sincere within the “true-to-life” conceit of the subgenre are an infrequent breath of fresh air. It’s even rarer to find a series of films that delivers on these fronts so consistently. Yet, for many die-hard […]
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The feature film debut of writer/director Chris Stuckmann has a solid, albeit slightly familiar, premise. In 2008, four YouTubers known for a ghost hunting show called ‘Paranormal Paranoids’ go missing near the deserted town of Shelby Oaks, sparking conspiracy theories and suspicions it’s a hoax to increase the channel’s notoriety. When the bodies of Laura […]
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Hell hath no fury like an overprotective mom in Lifetime Movie Network’s latest thriller, When Mom Becomes a Murderer. It’s obviously a ridiculous title that initially seems to reveal all of the movie’s cards, which is frustrating considering that the first two acts treats everything as a mystery. Thankfully writers Declan Dineen, Lucy Foster and […]
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The “disaster movie” is not quite as visible as it used to be in Hollywood, but thankfully for fans, South Korea has more than picked up the slack. In just the last two decades, Koreans have had to deal with a variety of catastrophes on screen, including a tsunami, a collapsed tunnel, an unstable power […]
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There’s a mystery at the heart of The Inheritance, the new thriller from director Alejandro Brugués. Or at least that what the screenplay by Joe Russo & Chris Lamont seems to believe. When the film opens, the estranged adult children of billionaire Charles Abernathy (Bob Gunton) have assembled at the isolated family estate for the […]
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While Silent Hill has always been my horror franchise of choice, there are few things that give me a more intense Pavlovian response than the voice saying “RESIDENT EVIL” on the title screen of that game. The PlayStation era was an important step into video games evolving into something more cinematic, and Resident Evil was […]
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It’s the hottest day of the year, and everyone in town is dreaming about ways to cool down. In the world of Triangle Agency, a new tabletop RPG from Haunted Table, these thoughts have an effect on reality itself. The next thing you know, a supernatural anomaly takes shape in the form of an ice […]
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Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) emerged as the sole survivor of writer/director Ti West‘s X, a proto-slasher harkening back to the gritty grindhouse era for her tenacity and ruthless ambition. Its closing moments signaling Minx’s unique zeal might’ve had a lot to do with her religious upbringing. The second entry in West’s trilogy captured the technicolor […]
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