When Pretty Little Liars first aired back when Freeform was ABC Family, I spent more time researching theories on who “A” was than I did studying for the Precalc class I was on the verge of failing in high school. My friends and I were hooked. The over-the-top text messages, the iconic characters (Alison DiLaurentis […]
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Beginning with the stomach-churning body horror novel The Troop, author Craig Davidson quickly established himself as a horror author to watch under the pen name Nick Cutter. Adapting the boundary-pushing, gruesome, and often cosmic horror found on Cutter’s pages makes for a tricky and daunting task. Rue Morgue president Rodrigo Gudiño‘s second feature takes on Cutter’s latest, an Audible original […]
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The Butcher of Mons was a moniker given to a notorious serial killer in Mons, Belgium, who left bags of dismembered women along visible roadsides. As heinously and abruptly as these discoveries began, they ceased in 1997, and the Mons Butcher’s identity remains unknown today. Megalomaniac supposes the atrocious serial killer had offspring that carried […]
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Neil LaBute films tend to have similar characteristics. The gifted playwright has a way with words, so his scripts are smart and snappy. He also has an interest in the way that men and women interact and how caustic the battle of the sexes can be. His films are often filled with unlikeable characters engaging […]
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John Logan’s Gothic horror drama “Penny Dreadful” retooled classic literary horror figures in a captivating, poignant way by exploring the ethos of monsters. For his directorial feature debut, Logan sets his sights on a familiar horror mainstay: the summer camp slasher. They/Them, pronounced “They-slash-Them,” takes place at an LGBTQIA+ conversion summer camp. It emphasizes its robust ensemble […]
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Season two of “American Horror Stories” kicks off with a perturbing pageant that pulls the strings on some porcelain prisoners. “What is a doll, really? Nothing more than mankind’s attempt to finish what the Almighty began…” Creepy killer dolls are a perennial horror classic, but there’s a rarer and more disturbing sub-genre where people get […]
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People often seek answers from God in times of strife and anguish. But what would happen if God physically answered? Perhaps the more pertinent question; which God heeded the call? Director Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious frames a single location genre-bender around these questions, creating a darkly comedic and bloody cosmic journey for a man trapped in a restroom. Wes […]
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In the opening scene of Andy Mitton’s The Harbinger, a masked man enters a woman’s apartment to find her screaming and clawing at her arm so tightly that it’s dripping blood. He’s the landlord, and she’s having a nightmare of a predatory Plague Doctor. It’s standard horror stuff, but when the exhausted woman is awoken, […]
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The cryptic marketing for Jordan Peele’s Nope inspired theories, speculation, and interpretation from the outset. In a short period and with only two previous features under his belt, the filmmaker established a distinct blend of accessible and unpredictable horror with a depth of subtext and symbolism lurking beneath the horror. Peele’s latest retools the summer blockbuster, nestling a […]
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The logline for writer/director Berkley Brady’s directorial feature debut Dark Nature describes it as “the story of a therapy group that is forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.” That’s pretty apt, albeit with one small issue: the Canadian film – […]
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There’s something wrong with senior citizens in The Elderly (Viejos). The record-breaking heat wave has them behaving eerily, and the temperature continues to rise. Filmmakers Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez, fresh off The Passenger, opt for slow simmering dread in an atmospheric examination of society’s alienation of the elderly. But the restraint and cryptic nature of the horror renders it […]
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Remakes of popular films are inevitable, particularly when a film with a unique high concept takes off. It’s hardly surprising, then, that a title like 2017’s One Cut of the Dead, Shin’ichirō Ueda’s horror comedy about a film crew making a horror flick that’s beset by zombies, is already receiving a remake. The original Japanese […]
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Capcom’s long-running Resident Evil video game series that began in 1996 amassed an extensive and complex history throughout dozens of games in the last twenty-six years. It’s since inspired various tie-in merchandise, novels, comics, animation, and multiple adaptations, including Paul W.S. Anderson’s loosely inspired big-budget action-horror franchise. Netflix’s “Resident Evil” series exists at the crossroads of Anderson’s action-horror films […]
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Staten Island’s favorite vampires return for more misguided macabre comedy in a season that’s full of growth, change, tap dancing, and home renovation. The vampires in What We Do in the Shadows have collectively lived thousands of years and traveled the entire globe. They’ve experienced death, sex, revolutions, and more sex; one would think that […]
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Despite its deceptive format, found footage isn’t easy to pull off effectively. Horror fans have become savvy to the tricks and tropes, making it harder to stand out or deliver potent scares. Director Kevin Ko attempts to reinvigorate found footage horror with Incantation, a cult horror meets cursed video tale. A unique approach to found footage techniques can’t […]
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