Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly discovers that she’s not the perfect aide they hoped for. That’s the plot of both the 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as well as the new 2025 […]
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AMC’s “Immortal Universe” gets a little bigger with the Talamasca, a secret society of supernatural movers and shakers who add espionage and intrigue to gothic horror. “The power in our world isn’t blood, or fangs, or magic. It’s information.” An interesting trend has cropped up over the past few years that takes advantage of fandom’s […]
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The re-popularization of FMV games and choose-your-own adventure movies is one of my favorite trends from the past few years. After all, modern technology has made it much easier for these interactive projects to finally fulfill their promises of placing you inside the narrative without relying on the compressed video files and laughable production budgets […]
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Yûta Shimotsu’s sophomore feature is an enlightening social satire about the dangers of conformity and assimilation, brought to life through a chilling body horror experiment. “Japan is the best! Japan is the best!” There is no shortage of uncomfortable imagery and surreal nightmare fuel in American horror movies. However, the chilling visuals that are born […]
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Mickey Reece creates a one-of-a-kind dream-like descent into danger, death, and delirium that’s as unbelievable as it is unpredictable. “Every heavy thing falls away.” It’s become such a rarity for a movie to genuinely, truly surprise its audience. Cinemagoers can sometimes cynically feel as if they’ve seen everything, only for a film like Mickey Reece’s […]
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The melodramatic adaptation of the Courtney Summers YA novel fails to do anything new with a zombie apocalypse, despite a strong, committed performance by Olivia Holt. “The end of the world is a lonely place.” Film has been exploring zombie stories for close to a century. Zombie stories consistently find an audience and are one […]
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Affection is an existential, claustrophobic examination of the self that’s more than its teases, twists, and turns “I know the difference between what’s real and what’s a dream.” Affection is such a rare, ambitious feat on multiple fronts — storytelling, editing, direction — but it’s a film that would absolutely fall apart without the right […]
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Tinsman Road is a grueling emotional gut punch that explores grief, guilt, and the great unknown, but poor pacing and a lack of conflict leave it lost without a compass. “You wanted to do this.” “Yeah, because I believe.” The found footage genre, when properly embraced, can truly be magical. It has the ability to […]
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Jaws, Late Night with the Devil, and somehow Waterworld receive the “Treehouse of Horror” treatment in a fun, mostly funny Halloween installment One of the more compelling novelties of The Simpsons, a series that is now in its 37th season and rounding the corner on its 800th episode, is how certain elements have inherently changed […]
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There’s something off about Red Haven. In R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead, the new Tubi original written and directed by Jem Garrard (Slay), it’s pretty evident that there’s more to the bountiful harvest and cheerful farmer’s market than meets the eye. Of course, this is par for the course for a Stine text, which typically wastes no […]
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It’s hard to come up with a new take on the vampire film. So much of the lore has been established, it’s easy to fall back on the common conventions of the subgenre. Writer/director Edward Shimborske doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel, but he does have enough tweaks to make On Gallows Hill (2025) feel fresh. […]
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“You are beautiful.” Generational trauma is nothing new for horror, but it’s gradually become one of modern horror’s most popular ingredients. Horror inherently holds a twisted mirror up to society, and so it makes a lot of sense that its current era is so steeped in generational trauma, the sins of the past, and how […]
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Spoiler Warning: This review digs into major plot points. Most horror fans are familiar with the story of Ed Gein, whether they realize it or not. Also known as the Butcher of Plainfield, the Wisconsin farmer inspired some of the genre’s most disturbing monsters. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins, Psycho), Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine, The Silence […]
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Filmmaker Steven Kostanski (Frankie Freako, PG: Psycho Goreman) continues his streak of updating ’80s and ’90s cult subgenres with energetic tongue-in-cheek flair. For his latest, the writer-director dusts off the Roger Corman cult classic Deathstalker, a 1983 sword & sorcery fantasy that showcased two things Kostanski specializes in: creatures and practical effects. The reboot dials […]
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Horror has been infatuated with terrifying mannequins and wax figures for over 100 years. From The Golem (1914) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) to Tourist Trap (1979) and beyond, the genre playfully taps into one of society’s greatest fears: an inanimate object taking on human-like characteristics. The Mannequin, the sophomore feature film from […]
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