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‘Batman: Dark Patterns’ Harkens Back to Old-School Detective Stories With Haunting Style [Review]

Over at DC, there’s always a plethora of Batman books running at any given time. While I do love Batman and Detective Comics, the two flagship titles, sometimes they get caught up a bit too much in ever-shifting continuity for my taste. The recent Absolute Batman has circumvented this concern by existing at the beginning of […] The post ‘Batman: Dark Patterns’ Harkens Back to Old-School Detective Stories With Haunting Style [Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Aaron Boehm
4 min read

‘Passenger’ Review – A Gorgeous Yet Bland Haunted House Road Trip

The Autopsy of Jane Doe director André Øvredal trades the claustrophobic chills of a small town morgue for the open road in his latest haunted house horror feature, Passenger. Despite the filmmaker’s considerable talents and a novel concept for a nomadic style haunting, though, Øvredal’s latest winds up falling asleep at the wheel. After an […] The post ‘Passenger’ Review – A Gorgeous Yet Bland Haunted House Road Trip appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
4 min read

‘Filth Eaters’ Review – Ito Romo Packs Epic-Scaled Horror Into Intimate Vampire Novella

I’ve often said that the horror novella is the 85-minute movie of the horror lit world. The format, typically resulting in a story between 100 and 200 pages, is the perfect vehicle for compact, tense, brutal little stories that don’t overstay their welcome, and while it can serve many genres, it seems to serve horror […] The post ‘Filth Eaters’ Review – Ito Romo Packs Epic-Scaled Horror Into Intimate Vampire Novella appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Matthew Jackson
9 min read

‘Morbid Metal’ Has the Means to Succeed as a Hack-and-Slash Roguelike [Early Access Impression]

Roguelikes seem to be the genre that benefits most from an Early Access release. The core gameplay loop and the various ways that it evolves throughout a run are so crucial to the success of this type of game, and it’s hard for developers to get a sense of how it will all play out […] The post ‘Morbid Metal’ Has the Means to Succeed as a Hack-and-Slash Roguelike [Early Access Impression] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Aaron Boehm
4 min read

‘Death Ship’ 4K UHD Review: A Canucksploitation Classic Gets a Glow-Up

Sometimes I think that we genre fans who cling to cult and exploitation cinema and eagerly await new disc releases feel like the only audience for 4K restorations of, say, Canadian horror films from 1980. We might be the primary audience for things like a 4K restoration of Death Ship, complete with two new commentaries […] The post ‘Death Ship’ 4K UHD Review: A Canucksploitation Classic Gets a Glow-Up appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Matthew Jackson
10 min read

‘Legacy of Kain: Ascendance’ Disappoints with Lackluster Return to Nosgoth [Review]

As someone who was in his mid-teens during the original Playstation era, Legacy of Kain was particularly up my alley. While Blood Omen was definitely in line with the edgy content I was looking for, the game that got its hooks in me was Soul Reaver. The more-than-25-year time gap since I last played the […] The post ‘Legacy of Kain: Ascendance’ Disappoints with Lackluster Return to Nosgoth [Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Aaron Boehm
7 min read

‘Scarlet Hollow’ Builds on Black Tabby Games’ Superb Visual Novel Prowess [Early Access Review]

One of the best horror premises is going back to your small hometown and slowly uncovering long-buried secrets. The potential for tying the town’s evils to your family history is apparent from the start, allowing everything to have more personal stakes. Small town citizens always have the best petty rivalries, which can be amplified by […] The post ‘Scarlet Hollow’ Builds on Black Tabby Games’ Superb Visual Novel Prowess [Early Access Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Aaron Boehm
4 min read

‘Psycho Killer’ Review – A Vapid, Generic Satanic Serial Killer Movie

A mid-film scene that sees Malcolm McDowell‘s Satanist benefactor pontificate about his religious and financial power to an extremely disinterested guest sums up the viewing experience of Psycho Killer. Se7en scribe Andrew Kevin Walker teaming with 8mm producer Gavin Polone, making his directorial feature debut here, for a Satanic serial killer thriller suggests disturbing horror […] The post ‘Psycho Killer’ Review – A Vapid, Generic Satanic Serial Killer Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
6 min read

‘The ‘Burbs’ Is A Formulaic Cul-De-Sac That Struggles To Make Its Case [TV Review]

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 […] The post ‘The ‘Burbs’ Is A Formulaic Cul-De-Sac That Struggles To Make Its Case [TV Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Daniel Kurland
5 min read

‘Twisted’ Is A Messy And Misguided Morality Tale With No Compass [Review]

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 […] The post ‘Twisted’ Is A Messy And Misguided Morality Tale With No Compass [Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Daniel Kurland
3 min read

‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Review – Meandering Trilogy Experiment Finally Reaches Its End

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. […] The post ‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Review – Meandering Trilogy Experiment Finally Reaches Its End appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
3 min read

‘Bowels of Hell’ Review – Constipation Becomes Metaphor in Gross-Out Horror Comedy

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 […] The post ‘Bowels of Hell’ Review – Constipation Becomes Metaphor in Gross-Out Horror Comedy appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
5 min read

‘Don’t Look in the Dark’ Is a Victim of its Own Found Footage Gimmick [Review]

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 […] The post ‘Don’t Look in the Dark’ Is a Victim of its Own Found Footage Gimmick [Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Luiz H. C.
5 min read

‘Send Help’ Review – Sam Raimi Is Back In Fine Splatstick Form In Survival Thriller Comedy

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 […] The post ‘Send Help’ Review – Sam Raimi Is Back In Fine Splatstick Form In Survival Thriller Comedy appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
5 min read

‘Worldbreaker’ Review – A Strong Cast Can’t Salvage Plodding Apocalyptic Horror

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 […] The post ‘Worldbreaker’ Review – A Strong Cast Can’t Salvage Plodding Apocalyptic Horror appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Matthew Jackson
9 min read

Despite Having the Pieces, ‘I Hate This Place’ Fails to Coalesce as an Adaptation [Review]

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 […] The post Despite Having the Pieces, ‘I Hate This Place’ Fails to Coalesce as an Adaptation [Review] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Aaron Boehm
4 min read

‘Rock Springs’ Sundance Review – History is a Monster in Sobering Horror Debut

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 […] The post ‘Rock Springs’ Sundance Review – History is a Monster in Sobering Horror Debut appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
3 min read

‘Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant’ Sundance Review – A Charming Body Horror Comedy

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 […] The post ‘Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant’ Sundance Review – A Charming Body Horror Comedy appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
4 min read

‘Buddy’ Sundance Review – Casper Kelly’s Mascot Horror Satire is an Absurd Delight

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 […] The post ‘Buddy’ Sundance Review – Casper Kelly’s Mascot Horror Satire is an Absurd Delight appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
4 min read

‘Leviticus’ Sundance Review – Desire is Deadly in Affecting Cursed Horror Movie

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 […] The post ‘Leviticus’ Sundance Review – Desire is Deadly in Affecting Cursed Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro