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‘The First Omen’ Review – A Haunting, Powerful Prequel Worthy of the Horror Classic

Meagan Navarro Arkasha Stevenson, featured, Nell Tiger Free, Reviews, The First Omen, topnews

Richard Donner’s The Omen begins June 6, at 6 am in Rome, with the birth of the Antichrist and his adoption into an affluent American family. Damien Thorn’s birth and subsequent reign of terror, preordained by franchise canon, make approaching a prequel to a heralded horror classic a daunting task. Director Arkasha Stevenson makes it look effortless with The First […]

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“AHS: Delicate” Review – “Opening Night” Delivers More of the Same for the Mid-Season Premiere

Daniel Kurland AHS: Delicate, American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Delicate, Emma Roberts, Halley Feiffer, Reviews, Ryan Murphy, TV

‘AHS: Delicate – Part Two’ returns with more of the same, yet Anna’s perturbing pregnancy finally starts to crown towards its creepy climax. “Down will come baby, cradle and all…” Part Two of American Horror Story: Delicate turns the clock back just over 35 years and begins with an unsettling vignette that chronicles how Emma […]

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‘Livescreamers’ Review – Virtual Haunted House Movie Tackles the Perils of Online Content Creation

Matt Donato Livescreamers, Movies, Reviews, Unnamed Footage Festival 2024

As Screenlife storytelling transitions into the livestream era, movies like Michelle Iannantuono’s Livescreamers have me most excited. Early Screenlife films like Unfriended and The Den read like one-takers but are computer-set events like someone recorded their computer monitor or laptop screen. What Livescreamers offers — or examples like Spree, Deadstream, and #chadgetstheaxe — is the […]

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‘Mind Body Spirit’ Review – A Knockout Found Footage Horror Movie for the Livestream Era

Matt Donato Mind Body Spirit, Movies, Reviews, Unnamed Footage Festival 2024

Filmmakers could spend the next decade highlighting the mounting horrors of influencer culture, especially with standout dissections like Alex Henes and Matthew Merenda’s Mind Body Spirit. The filmmaking duo organically recreates a hopeful celebrity vlogger’s downward spiral with the utmost Screenlife dedication. Henes and Merenda make tremendous use of a single-location California estate that never […]

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“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Episode 6 Review – A Grand, Emotional Finale to the Rick & Michonne Story

Noah Levine Reviews, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, TV

This review contains massive episode spoilers. Right before he blew up the bridge back in his final episode from the flagship series, a fatally-injured Rick Grimes uttered “I found them” before he was thrust into the chaos of the Civic Republic Military and stolen from his children’s lives for years. Three seasons and six jam-packed, […]

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‘Do Not Watch’ Review – An Innovative Reinvention of the Found Footage Format

Matt Donato Do Not Watch, Movies, Reviews, Unnamed Footage Festival 2024

Justin Janowitz’s spellbinding feature debut, Do Not Watch, follows the tradition of cursed footage like 2018’s Antrum or 2022’s Incantation. Subliminal messages are baked into Ryan Toyama’s screenplay and imprinted onto the screen. Traditional barriers between screens and their audiences are shattered; characters plead with us to do what the title commends. Do Not Watch […]

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‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review – Latest Monster Mashup Goes Bigger and Sillier

Meagan Navarro Adam Wingard, Dan Stevens, Godzilla x Kong, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Monsterverse, Reviews

The heavyweight championship event that was Godzilla vs. Kong ended in a tenuous truce that saw Godzilla holding dominion over Earth while King Kong claimed Hollow Earth. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire introduces a new Titan-sized threat from the depths of Hollow Earth, one so dangerous that Kong and his human allies will need all the help they […]

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‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II’ Review – Sequel Defies Expectations and Surpasses the Original

Paul Lê Andrew Scott Bell, Matt Leslie, Movies, Reviews, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey broke the internet when it was first announced back in 2022. Disney fans and everyone else were caught off guard by the concept of the iconic toy bear and his stuffed pals becoming feral, but enough time has passed to where this current genre practice — turning public-domain material into horror […]

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“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Episode 5 Review – A Phenomenal Penultimate Episode

Noah Levine Reviews, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, TV

This review contains major episode spoilers. “Become,” the penultimate episode of “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” takes viewers back to a more nostalgic-style of storytelling in the TWDU. On the heels of their rocky escape from the Civic Republic Military, Michonne and Rick are honeymooning their way through Wyoming, enjoying the sights and […]

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‘Easter Bloody Easter’ Review – Too Many Flaws Drag Down This New Easter Horror Movie

Geof Capodanno Easter Bloody Easter, Movies, Reviews

Spring is in swing and Easter is just around the corner. What better time than now for Gravitas Ventures to release their Easter-themed flick from WallyBird Productions? First-time director Diane Foster (Iowa, The Orphan Killer) pulls double duty as lead actress in the horror-comedy Easter Bloody Easter, arriving just in time for Easter. The peeps […]

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‘The Angel of Indian Lake’ Book Review – Stephen Graham Jones Wraps Horror Lit’s Greatest Slasher Trilogy

Meagan Navarro Books, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Reviews, Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake

With The Angel of Indian Lake, author Stephen Graham Jones tackles one of the most daunting tasks in horror: bringing a trilogy to a satisfying close. Making it even more challenging is that the final entry in Jones’ slasher trilogy endcaps two perfect entries in horror lit, with 2021’s My Heart is a Chainsaw recontextualizing the slasher formula and last […]

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‘Exhuma’ Review – South Korea’s Box Office Hit is a Fun Folk Horror Surprise

Meagan Navarro Choi Min-Sik, Exhuma, Movies, Reviews

South Korea’s current box office champion multiple weeks in a row, Exhuma, offers an unexpected and entertaining take on folk horror. While dense in lore and spiritual worldbuilding, the latest horror offering from writer/director Jae-hyun Jang (Svaha: The Sixth Finger, The Priests) balances its grim, sometimes bloody folkloric terror with levity and heart. Anchored by four “ghostbusters” of sorts, […]

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Lifetime’s ‘Danger on Party Island’ Needs More Party and More Danger [Review]

Joe Lipsett Adam Harper, Andrea Prevatt, Annie Cook, Danny J Boyle, Hannah Maryse Robinson, James Bobo, Kate Dailey, lifetime, Lindsey Desbach, Mackenzie Thompson, Mia Rose, Movies, Reviews

Lifetime’s latest thriller drops viewers into the action right from the jump. Under desaturated grey/blue skies, introverted lawyer Mel (Lindsey Desbach) rides a ferry to Feng Key island. She’s headed to the titular party island not for a vacation, though; she’s there to identify the body of her drowned younger sister, Georgia (Andrea Prevatt). It’s […]

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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review – The Nostalgia Tank Is Running on Empty in Familiar Ghostbusting Tale

Meagan Navarro featured, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Gil Kenan, McKenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Reviews, topnews

It’s been almost forty years since Ghostbusters introduced the plucky foursome fumbling their way through spectral encounters, using a now iconic Manhattan firehouse as their operations base. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, set two years after the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, further entrenches the Spengler family and newcomers into the franchise by returning to where it all began: New York City. Frozen […]

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‘Alone in the Dark’ Review – Classic and Modern Survival Horror Collide in Mostly Successful Remake

Harrison Abbott alone in the dark, Reviews, Video Games

For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion for a brief period in the late-noughties — when games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 pivoted in a more action-oriented direction — but generally they have been […]

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