Spot the anomaly. Turn back. Repeat. Welcome to the underground. Genki Kawamura made his name producing anime blockbusters. Your Name. Weathering With You. Massive hits. But horror? That felt unlikely. Then came Exit 8. Kawamura’s first directorial effort in the genre arrives quietly. No jump scares. No gore. Just white tiles, fluorescent lights, and … Exit 8 Review: Genki Kawamura’s Liminal Horror Finds Dread in RepetitionRead more
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Hunting Matthew Nichols Review: Found Footage That Knows Its Prey
“A clever hybrid of true crime and found footage. Hunting Matthew Nichols earns its Blair Witch influences and delivers a satisfying payoff.” Found footage horror borrows from true crime. True crime borrows from documentary. And documentary wants to borrow your trust. Hunting Matthew Nichols sits at the messy, exciting intersection of all three. Director … Hunting Matthew Nichols Review: Found Footage That Knows Its PreyRead more
Faces of Death 2024 Review: A Smarter, Nastier Remake for the Attention Economy
You wanted real death. The internet gave you something worse. Goldhaber turns a fake snuff legend into a sharp, nasty critique of our numb, scrolling eyes. Trashy finger-wagging fun. The original Faces of Death arrived in 1978 with a dirty secret. It pretended to show real death. Audiences believed it anyway. That … Faces of Death 2024 Review: A Smarter, Nastier Remake for the Attention EconomyRead more
The Serpent’s Skin Review: Alice Maio Mackay’s Trans Horror Has Heart but Lacks Bite
A fast-paced supernatural thriller that wants to be The Craft for a new generation, but gets lost in its own metaphor. Director Alice Maio Mackay operates with a specific urgency. At only 20 years old, she has already built a filmography that refuses to wait for permission. Her previous works, Bad Girl Boogey and T … The Serpent’s Skin Review: Alice Maio Mackay’s Trans Horror Has Heart but Lacks BiteRead more
Forbidden Fruits Review: Mall Culture Meets Coven Chaos
Witchcraft, retail, and the chaos of staying true to yourself. Meredith Alloway has a clear fascination with constructed realities. Her previous short work often examined the facades people build, the performance of identity in spaces designed to contain them. She looks for the tension where a character’s inner world grinds … Forbidden Fruits Review: Mall Culture Meets Coven ChaosRead more
They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody Blast
They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody Blast A woman answers a cryptic ad for a housekeeping job at a luxurious yet foreboding New York City high-rise. Upon arrival, she discovers residents have vanished without a trace for decades, fuelling whispers of a satanic cult … They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody BlastRead more
The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to Be
The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to Be by David L. Tamarin Joe X’s “Richard Speck Murders Re-Enacted” is the Citizen Kane of snuff films, so I had high expectations for his newest feature, “IRS Agent in Basement.” He did not let me down, and “IRS Agent” is a … The Viral Snuff Movie Review That Was Never Meant to BeRead more
The Well (2024) Review: A Familiar Apocalypse That Plays It Too Safe
Survival instincts, scarce water, and a world you’ve seen before. Water is the oldest weapon. Strip a society of it, and everything collapses, quickly and brutally. That premise sits at the core of The Well, a 2024 post-apocalyptic survival film directed by Hubert Davis. In a genre already crowded with … The Well (2024) Review: A Familiar Apocalypse That Plays It Too SafeRead more
Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That Delivers
The game is bigger. The billionaires are worse. The catharsis is real. Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That Delivers The year 2019 introduced audiences to Grace, a bride who spent her wedding night fighting for survival against her newly inherited family of Satanists. Ready or Not became an … Ready or Not 2 Review: A Cathartic Horror Comedy That DeliversRead more
Slanted Review: The High School Satire That Replaces Laughs With Wounds
If you can’t beat them, be them. The cost is everything. Amy Wang’s debut feature, Slanted, opens with a child pulling at the corners of her eyes. It is a moment of cruelty so specific and so tired that it immediately establishes the film’s thesis: the world is not built for … Slanted Review: The High School Satire That Replaces Laughs With WoundsRead more
Sounds That Can’t Be Made, Undertone Review: A Technical Triumph Without a Story
Somewhere inside your head, the horror sings in you. Undertone Review A podcast host covering spooky content moves in to care for her dying mother. When sent recordings of a pregnant couple’s paranormal encounters, she discovers their story parallels hers, each tape pushing her toward madness. One day, I’ll play … Sounds That Can’t Be Made, Undertone Review: A Technical Triumph Without a StoryRead more
Dolly Review: Seann William Scott Faces Terrifying Horror in 2026’s Grittiest Slasher
Stifler goes slasher in this gruesome tribute to 70s grindhouse terror. Dolly Review: Seann William Scott Faces Terrifying Horror in 2026’s Grittiest Slasher The 2026 horror gets a brutal, grimy new entry this week with the release of Dolly, a film generating significant buzz for its post-Terrifier gore and relentless tension. Directed … Dolly Review: Seann William Scott Faces Terrifying Horror in 2026’s Grittiest SlasherRead more
The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Feminist Frankenstein Reboot Is a Punk Rock Triumph
Here comes the motherfucking bride: Gyllenhaal’s monster masterpiece is alive with anarchic joy. Maggie Gyllenhaal has done something remarkable with her sophomore feature, The Bride!: she’s taken the stitches and scars of cinema history and reanimated them into something entirely her own. The film wears its influences like badges of honour, … The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Feminist Frankenstein Reboot Is a Punk Rock TriumphRead more
The Phantasm Franchise: A Spherical Journey Through Cinematic Insanity
Five films. Forty years. One very tall problem. A spherical journey through cinema’s most wonderfully confusing nightmare. There are certain horror franchises that play by the rules, and then there’s Phantasm, a series that seems to have been dreamt up by a feverish raccoon on a three-day bender after watching too … The Phantasm Franchise: A Spherical Journey Through Cinematic InsanityRead more
Dolly Review: A Grindhouse Horror Fairy Tale That Goes for the Jugular
Dolly Review: Grindhouse style meets extreme brutality in this twisted fairy tale. If your taste in horror skews toward the gritty, sweaty, and unapologetically nasty side of the 1970s, then Rod Blackhurst’s Dolly is a film that deserves a spot on your watchlist. This new 2026 horror film wears its influences on its blood-soaked … Dolly Review: A Grindhouse Horror Fairy Tale That Goes for the JugularRead more