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Category: Horror Reviews

  • Fantasia 2024: The A-Frame Questions a Mysterious Scientist’s Intentions

    I’m not a die-hard fan of sci-fi (although I do enjoy the genre), but I love sci-fi horror. Movies like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Alien, and Event Horizon are right up my alley, so when I heard about The A-Frame, I was instantly intrigued. The film’s Fantasia plot description didn’t give away too much,…

  • Crumb Catcher Won’t Take No for an Answer

    Like a lot of horror subgenres, home invasion films have the potential to get stale very quickly. We can only stomach so many The Strangers rip-offs before we start looking elsewhere for our homebound thrills, so whenever I hear about a home invasion movie with even a slight twist, it immediately catches my eye. That’s…

  • Oddity Is Tailor-Made to Creep You Out

    Oddity has been on my most-anticipated list ever since I first got wind of it. It was made by Damian McCarthy, the guy who burst onto the horror scene with the 2020 gem Caveat, and if you’ve seen that film, you know it’s one of the best and most inventive creepfests in recent memory. I…

  • Starve Acre Plumbs the Depths of a Couple’s Grief

    When you walk into a film expecting it to be good, one of two things usually happens. Sometimes the movie will meet your expectations, and other times it’ll leave you sorely disappointed. But every once in a while, a film ends up being even better than you imagined, and Starve Acre was one of those…

  • Longlegs Shows the True Face of Evil

    Hype can be dangerous. Sure, it’s fun to look forward to a movie that’s supposed to be the best thing since Norman Bates turned a shower into a veritable abattoir, but if you let your expectations get out of control, you risk setting yourself up for disappointment. It’s a difficult balance to maintain, so I…

  • The Blue Rose Is a Surrealist Lynchian Nightmare

    Variety is the spice of life. Sure, I like straightforward horror movies like creature features and possession films as much as anyone, but occasionally I want something a bit weirder. I sometimes find myself craving a trip to the outer fringes of the genre, so when I first heard about The Blue Rose, I was…

  • Listen Carefully – Or Guilt Will Drive You Mad

    Listen Carefully is the sort of film I live for, existing in a weird cross-section between David Lynch and The Twilight Zone with a healthy dose of psychoanalysis. In fact, the worst thing about the film is that it’s virtually impossible to talk about why I like it so much without spoiling the film’s major twist,…

  • Frogman Fu*ks

    Much in the way Salem, Massachusetts, has committed itself to touristy fanfare based on four-hundred-year-old stories, or Roswell, New Mexico, entertains healthy attractions by leaning into the mysticism of alien life, the town of Loveland, Ohio, finds itself in the thick of its own far-out local legend. While Frogman looks like a campy indulgence for…

  • CFF24: Cannibal Mukbang is a ‘Meat’-Cute Rom-Com With Bite

    What the hell is mukbanging? Admit it, you’re curious enough to ask the question but have no idea what images Google might send you in response, so you’ve been waiting for this exact review, you sly dog. You’ve probably witnessed a mukbang and had no idea. And if you’ve ever eaten on camera and posted…

  • MaXXXine Ends the Trilogy on a Mostly Good Note

    When Ti West made X back in 2022, the film was a welcome return to the genre that put him on the map, but nobody expected it to turn into a franchise. However, as I’m sure you know, we all turned out to be completely wrong. West is now capping off the X trilogy with…