Tag: Shudder
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It’s been a minute since Shudder unleashed a new scripted series on us (not since The Creep Tapes in November, I think), and Hell Motel seemed to have come out of left field at us this month. Honestly, if it weren’t for the creepy poster of a horned masked figure standing behind a motel counter,…
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Best Wishes to All is the deeply unsettling and disturbing gut-punch of a film we all need right now, and that’s not hyperbole. I first saw Yûta Shimotsu’s film, based on his short of the same name, at the Boston Underground Film Festival a couple of months back, and I left the theater stunned at…
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Watch out, David Howard Thornton, there’s a new killer clown on the block…errr… cornfield. Frendo the Clown steps off the pages of Adam Cesare’s book and onto the silver screen for a gory little slice of Mayberry terror. Clown in a Cornfield is now terrorizing moviegoers all over the country, claiming the fifth spot at…
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Hell House LLC is one of the best found footage series of the last decade. Beginning in 2015, Stephen Cognetti’s films helped fill the void between the lackluster end of the Paranormal Activity franchise’s Ghost Dimension and its disembodied attempt at resurgence in 2021’s Next of Kin, which felt more like its own film that…
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John Lithgow is an American treasure, and if you disagree, we can never be friends. I grew up watching him as the loveable yet oafish head of an alien family on 3rd Rock From the Sun after countless rewatches of Harry and the Hendersons with my family. Back then, I would never have considered a…
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Wrestling and horror are two peas in a pod. The legacy of performers who have traded in their spandex shorts for big film roles may begin with Tor Johnson. Johnson was a Swedish wrestler getting bit parts in the 1930s before breaking out in Ed Wood’s schlocky 1955 film Bride of the Monster. Then, luchador…
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Beauty standards for women were put on notice last year as Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror masterpiece The Substance roared into theaters. The innovative and hypnotic thriller has absolutely dominated the horror space since last summer, even earning Demi Moore her third Golden Globe nomination and first win. While horror fans are surely expecting an influx of…
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If you’d ever considered a world where slasher movies are real, have I got the film for you. A late 2024 entry, horror-comedy Bloody Axe Wound makes its way into theaters this weekend, and it’s a bloody good time worth the price of admission. The film takes place in the fictional location of Clover Falls,…
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I first got wind of Rita a few months ago, and ever since then, it’s been near the top of my to-watch list. In fact, I was dying to see this film before I knew anything about the plot. I heard it was made by the guy who directed and co-wrote the 2019 gem La…
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There are two trains of thought when it comes to rage-based zombies. The first group will lump George A Romero’s The Crazies with the rest of his Dead series and tell you there are no differences between one or the other. If you know someone like this, lose that person’s number immediately. They’re no good…