Growing pains with fangs. The teenage years feel like a horror movie already. The alienation, the hormones, the constant sense that something inside you is changing into something else. Vampire movies understand this better than most genres. They take that beastly transition and make it literal. The best teen vampire … 5 Best Teen Vampire Movies That Capture High School Horror and Alienation: A Fright Club SpecialRead more
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Influencers Movie Review: A Bad Horror Sequel That Forgets What Made the First Film Interesting Because you bastards made me watch it!
This horror sequel fails at character, suspense, and basic storytelling. Read the full Influencers movie review. What do you do when you have the chance to create a sequel to your success? Let me tell you how we got here. This is the story of a sequel to a successful … Influencers Movie Review: A Bad Horror Sequel That Forgets What Made the First Film Interesting Because you bastards made me watch it!Read more
Alpha: Review: Julia Ducournau’s Latest Lacks Raw Ferocity
Love and negligence collide in Alpha, a sombre, visually stunning family horror. Expectation is a brutal critic. For a filmmaker like Julia Ducournau, who arrived fully formed with the incendiary Raw in 2016, the weight of anticipation becomes almost impossible to manage. That debut, a cannibalistic coming-of-age story, announced a director unafraid … Alpha: Review: Julia Ducournau’s Latest Lacks Raw FerocityRead 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
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
Why Erotic Horror Is Experiencing a Creative Resurgence in Independent Cinema
Why Erotic Horror Is Experiencing a Creative Resurgence in Independent Cinema Horror has long been a partial mirror of social fears but lately, the genre has been intertwined with eroticism in a manner that has not been the case since the golden age of European exploitation films. Indie moviemakers are … Why Erotic Horror Is Experiencing a Creative Resurgence in Independent CinemaRead more
Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle Giveaway
Folk horror returns to Derby with Oscar contenders and a killer book bundle giveaway. Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle Giveaway The Darkness in the Fields Film Festival returns to Derby’s QUAD cinema on 21st March 2026 for its third year, cementing its status as a … Darkness in the Fields 2026: Full Lineup, Tickets, and Exclusive Book Bundle GiveawayRead 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