Penny Lane Is Dead delivers strong practical gore and real tension inside its beach house setting. But Hope Madden finds the home invasion horror undercut by tonal clashes and a third act aimed at the wrong target.
MOVIE REVIEWS
Fright Club: The Best Texas Horror Films: Five Beyond the Chain Saw Massacre
Fright Club ranks the best Texas horror movies, skipping the obvious chainsaw classic to make room for everything else. From Bubba Ho-Tep and Frailty to Mia Goth’s turns in X and Pearl, these five Texas horror films show how much the state has given the genre.
Buffet Infinity: Simon Glassman’s Canadian Sci-Fi Horror Comedy
Simon Glassman’s Buffet Infinity is a mind-jangling Canadian sci-fi horror comedy that builds its narrative entirely from regional TV ads. It’s clever, bananas and perhaps brilliant, with a style that sustains itself for ninety-three minutes of simulated channel surfing and cosmic capitalistic catastrophe.
Bury the Devil: Atmospheric Chills and Uneven Mythology
Hope Madden reviews Adam O’Brien’s Bury the Devil. A haunted house horror with a great atmosphere and strong central performances. The incomplete mythology holds it back from being truly memorable.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review: Schoenbrun delivers slasher nerd nirvana
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is the nerdiest horror film ever made. With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and more slasher trivia than you can shake a split diopter at, this queer horror masterpiece is bloody, beautiful, and utterly compelling.
Feed Review: Marco van Belle’s, Dearg Due Vampire Never Quite Bites
Marco van Belle’s Feed finally puts the Dearg Due, Ireland’s first vampire, on screen in a handsome indie horror. Grace Collender and Charlotte Bradley bring real texture, yet the film keeps slipping into familiar cabin territory instead of its own mythology. Our full review weighs a fresh premise against safe execution.
Hellcat Film Review: Brock Bodell Traps You in an Airstream
Brock Bodell’s Hellcat straps Dakota Gorman into a moving Airstream and lets Todd Terry talk at her for 91 minutes. Hope Madden reviews a single location horror thriller that mines its premise well before the third act gets contrived. Lean, mean and effective, hokey practical FX and all.
The Yeti Review: A Practical FX Creature Feature Worth A Look
The Yeti drops a 1947 search party into the Alaska Territory and hands them a practical FX creature feature with a proper cast. Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta nail the 40s B movie tone, and Wayne Anderson’s creature design gives the beast real weight. The script, sadly, needed a couple more drafts.
Big Baby Review: Spider One’s Horror Screenwriter Nightmare
Spider One’s Big Baby casts Brandon Lewis as a horror screenwriter who cannot stop listening to the podcast telling him to die. Krsy Fox supplies the film’s genuine tension, and the crying baby mask supplies the axe. Our horror film review looks at why the story inside Adam’s script leaves the whole thing curiously unsatisfying.
Chum Review: Jonathan Zuck’s AI Shark Sinks a Clever Idea
onathan Zuck’s Chum strands a wedding party off Malta between a great white shark and a fisherman with a grudge, played by Jim Klock. It is a shark attack horror with a climate change conscience and a fatal reliance on AI visual effects. Alice Eve commits, the Maltese location dazzles, and the film still goes under.