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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With a film like Dooba Dooba, it would be easy to sit back and let the film’s gimmick do a lot of the heavy lifting. Written and directed by Ehrland Hollingsworth, this 2025 festival darling works hard to capture a certain analog horror aesthetic, with static cameras, a single location, and grainy footage. From a […]
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A recycled premise gets repurposed with Killer Whale. If you’ve seen 47 Meters Down or Lionsgate’s Fall, which also stars Killer Whale‘s Virginia Gardner, this straightforward aquatic thriller adheres to the exact same formula with very little in the way of deviations. Stop me if you’ve heard this plot before: an inciting tragedy inspires a […]
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Brandon Auman’s Sleepwalker, a feature-length version of the filmmaker’s own short, centers on a grieving mother (played by Hayden Panettiere) and her series of unyielding, nocturnal terrors. And as a recurring dream might have, there is an overwhelming sense of familiarity to Sleepwalker that lingers well after everything else has been forgotten. That nagging, been-there-done-that […]
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At this point, it feels like so many franchises have an official tabletop roleplaying game. The Walking Dead, Hellboy, Blade Runner, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and even Monty Python all have licensed games based on their universes, and that’s just off the top of my head. Frankly, I’ve never really been super drawn to this, […]
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Killing zombies and wearing spiked leather jackets is cool and all, but our collective fascination with the apocalypse has more to do with the wish to be free from the stress of modern life than actually wanting to live in a nightmarish wasteland. After all, the reality of dealing with irradiated water supplies and […]
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Primal’s third seasons receives an undead makeover that pushes Tartakovsky’s already-ambitious action epic even further out of its comfort zone. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is why people watch television in the first place. It’s a sprawling, ultra-violent, survival tale between neanderthal and dinosaur that plays out almost entirely without dialogue. Primal taps into something ancient and, […]
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The monster lurking under the bed is real and hungry in “Hannibal” creator Bryan Fuller’s charming feature directorial debut, Dust Bunny. It’s an imaginative bedtime story come to life on screen, bearing more in common with Fuller’s whimsical “Pushing Daisies” in style and tone. Humor, horror, and heart collide in an infectious fairy tale of […]
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The benefit of a sequel is that you can hit the ground running. The lore, the characters, even the narrative format, have all been established, so filmmakers can dispense with the formality of introducing everything except the new plot. Writer/director Kurtis David Harder absolutely embraces this approach for his sequel, Influencers. Building off the events […]
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Just a little over a year ago, Blumhouse Games published their first game, Fear the Spotlight, which I was a big fan of. Their latest publishing endeavor is SLEEP AWAKE, the debut game from EYES OUT, a studio founded by Cory Davis of Spec Ops: The Line and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. That’s […]
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution recaps the end of the anime’s second season and teases the start of season three with a visually stunning film that suffers from structure. “Just save as many people as you can, even if it’s only one.” Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen has experienced a meteoric rise that’s turned its exaggerated action and […]
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A brief meta exchange between characters praising the almighty sequel in a late scene signals the type of wry self-awareness returning director Roar Uthaug (The Wave, Cold Prey) and writer Espen Aukan employ in Troll 2. Their follow-up to the 2022 Netflix Kaiju film mostly leaves its MonsterVerse formula behind in favor of an Indiana […]
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Three years have passed since Stranger Things Season 4’s cliffhanger finale left Upside Down fissures in Hawkins, but time has largely remained unchanged for our heroes in Stranger Things 5, at least at first. The fifth and final season brings things full circle, picking up a year and a half later, exactly four years after […]
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