‘Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse’ is an excellent distillation of one of horror’s biggest movers and shakers that’s a must-read for film aficionados. If one were to name some of the biggest horror movies of the past two decades, it’s not uncommon for titles like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Get Out, The Invisible Man, […]
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The infamous “they” say that horror is often at its most productive (and successful) during times of political unrest, and it sure does seem like we’ve been in a state of political unrest for a while now. How timely it is, then, that Ryan Prows‘ (Lowlife) Night Patrol has entered the ring. This cop-movie-meets-vampire-tale has its finger […]
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The stakes are personal in explosive action sequel Sisu: Road to Revenge. Writer/Director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports) is back at the helm alongside returning star Jorma Tommila as the silent antihero with a special talent for slaughtering baddies, but this time the adrenaline-pumping “more is more” energy gets offset by an unrestrained sense of humor and […]
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More so than ever before, we live in an age of misinformation. Thanks to deepfake technology and deceptive social media algorithms, it’s becoming more and more difficult to distinguish fantasy from reality as people are manipulated into believing things that are simply not true. It’s a wonder that deepfakes haven’t made their way into more […]
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In the woods, a mother cried, and wished for a love, long denied. She soon appeared, a child of grace, ‘til evil struck with his dark embrace. The girl now hides, behind a mask. To raise her own, long at last. That’s about as much backstory as you’ll get about Dolly, the main antagonist in […]
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Steven Spielberg’s seminal shark horror classic Jaws turns 50 this year, and Beast of War, the latest by filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Sting, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse), draws inspiration from the historical account that directly inspired Quint’s unforgettable monologue in Spielberg’s film. Roache-Turner, who writes and directs, gives his own spin with his 1942 Australian war movie, featuring […]
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A conventional found footage horror movie gets a creepy Lovecraftian twist in Dream Eater. Co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, the familiar Paranormal Activity-like setup takes a while to find its footing, but ultimately brings enough chills just in time for Halloween. Dream Eater follows […]
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In Stephen King’s Cujo, a family’s beloved pet St. Bernard turns homicidal and traps a mother and son in their car after catching rabies. In director Johannes Roberts’ Primate, it’s a pet chimpanzee who succumbs to the ruthless disease, and the car gets traded for the family’s swimming pool. Yet Roberts’ old school techniques, complete […]
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For the past quarter century, trends in horror have come and gone. From the torture porn movement of the early aughts to found footage and legacy sequels, the genre has seen its share of renewal and rebirth. But as noteworthy movies come and go, few titles have retained the power to terrify and inspire like […]
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HAUNTED HOTEL is an animated comedy with a deep love for horror staples and absurdist gags that proves to be as sweet as it is silly. “This place only works if the living people make a living.” Animation has a surprising relationship with the horror genre where these types of scary stories are a rarity […]
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The road from comedy to horror is a short one for Black Cab lead Nick Frost, yet unlike past roles, this new one isn’t played for laughs. The Shaun of the Dead star is dead serious as his character, a crazed cabbie, takes two unsuspecting passengers on a nightmarish ride. The hellish route in Bruce […]
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Silent Hill has been dominating the conversation this year. The conclusion of Silent Hill: Ascension, the free Short Message, and the excellent remake of Silent Hill 2 all were released in 2024, and now Silent Hill is coming into the conversation in a different way. Bokeh Game Studio, lead by the director of the original […]
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The Simpsons’ annual “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween specials were a seasonal highlight and a strong opportunity for the animated series to truly let loose and explore radical riffs on celebrated horror touchstones like The Shining, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and even classic genre archetypes like King Kong and The Twilight Zone. It’s appreciated that […]
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A sense of déjà vu is inevitable when watching Hanna MacPherson’s Time Cut. Just like Totally Killer, a movie that came out only a year ago, this new slasher flings a final girl to the distant past so that she can solve a loved one’s murder. Yes, Time Cut was technically announced first, but the movie […]
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Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken’s Grotesquerie started in a rather unassuming fashion, but it was clear that a palpable darkness was brewing under the surface of its characters and setting, like a gaping chasm to Hell that could swallow the world at any moment. There’s been an emphasis on order ruling over […]
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