Every small step the protagonists take forward is met with grueling steps back, courtesy of the mysterious puzzle box of horrors in the propulsive MGM+ series “From.” Or rather, the harder the humans fight to escape their bizarre purgatory, the crueler the enigmatic evil gets, aiming to crush their spirits before devouring them. And it’s evolving. […]
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The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history, yet director Magnus von Horn (Sweat, The Here After) isn’t interested in retreading a familiar serial killer biopic ground. Telling a story inspired by Dagmar Overby presents fertile ground for horror, but Dagmar’s chosen victims were children and […]
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Director Alexandre Aja continues his recent streak of helming self-contained horror, shifting from the claustrophobic confines of space in Oxygen and the flooding Florida house in Crawl to a rundown cabin in the woods with his latest, Never Let Go. Its simple setup and fairy tale qualities feel familiar, with inevitable comparisons drawn to Bird […]
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What do you get when you combine the edgy cop-thriller films from the 1980s with the werewolf genre? The answer is 2024’s 12 to Midnight, co-produced by Millman Productions, Cannon Fire Productions, Delirium, Ron Lee Productions, and Salem House Films. Delco Horror Haven, the Philly area’s non-profit org dedicated to supporting all things indie horror, […]
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Writer/Director Timo Tjahjanto (May the Devil Take You, The Night Comes For Us, V/H/S/2) approaches his action features the same way he does horror: full throttle. There’s no coming up for air in a Tjahjanto joint; the filmmaker goes for the jugular and immerses audiences in a violent sensory assault. So much so that it’s […]
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Hold Your Breath opens with a nightmare. It’s a recurring nightmare of Margaret Bellum’s (Sarah Paulson): every night she goes to sleep and finds herself caught in the middle of cruel Oklahoma dust storm. She’s quickly forced to the ground, choking. Then when she’s about to die, Margaret awakens, gasping for breath. Written by Karrie […]
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Much like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, director Max Minghella‘s Shell explores the hells of aging in Hollywood with vibrant style and biting wit. That both employ body horror, harken back to golden eras of the industry, and screened at TIFF will further draw inevitable comparisons. Yet they couldn’t be further removed in just about every […]
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While remakes are a longstanding tradition in the horror genre, 2003’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ushered in a decade-dominating trend of reinventing classic genre properties for the new millennium. Hoping to replicate the success of Texas Chainsaw, production company Platinum Dunes re-teamed with director Marcus Nispel for a contemporary take on Friday the 13th in […]
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Enjoyment, so to speak, of Christian Tafdrup’s bleak 2020 Danish horror movie Speak No Evil, a slow simmering cautionary tale of extreme passivity and politeness, is contingent on how much its “Because you let me” punchline gets under your skin. The grim pessimism and pervading discomfort culminated in a frustrating but fitting passive conclusion, making […]
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Despite the fact that big budget game studios seem to have mostly abandoned classic survival horror, there’s definitely still an audience for it. Hollowbody, the latest game from Chasing Static developer Headware Games, proved that by raising over $35,000 on Kickstarter a few years ago. The game takes inspiration from the PlayStation 2 era of […]
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Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The […]
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Science SARU creates something murderous and magical with its coming of age supernatural rom-com that mixes aliens, ghosts, and supernatural phenomena. “Do only scum live in this world?” There is an endless amount of supernatural horror anime that get under the audience’s skin, but none of them are quite like DAN DA DAN, a delirious […]
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Writer/Director Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) refuses to color within the genre lines in her feature adaptation of Rachel Yoder‘s novel, Nightbitch. Heller employs everything from poignant family drama to pitch black comedy to horror fairy tale to highlight the complexities of motherhood and identity. It’s so defiant of easy categorization and tone […]
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You know a Joseph Kahn film when you see one. There’s an approach to style, narrative, and editing akin to pure adrenaline; it’s as though the filmmaker drank a bunch of coffee, ate a bunch of candy, and then immediately made a movie. Ick, Kahn’s first feature since 2017’s Bodies, is pure sugar/caffeine rush: when […]
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The term body horror evokes certain types of visuals and visceral responses. Famously associated with directors like David Cronenberg, body horror is used to generate gross-out visuals as easily as it advances the narrative (see: the way Coralie Fargeat uses bodies for her scathing feminist social commentary, The Substance). Writer/director Thibault Emin uses body horror […]
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