Tag: Shudder
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The cycle of family trauma takes a terrifying, supernatural turn in The Voices of Our Mother, a new Canadian horror feature set to arrive on Shudder this summer. Starring genre veteran Sheila McCarthy (Anything for Jackson), the film explores how buried secrets can manifest as a literal, predatory evil. The story begins with the passing…
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The desert escape subgenre is getting a high-tension makeover this summer with Find Your Friends, a new survival thriller headed to Shudder. Marking the directorial debut of Izabel Pakzad, the film swaps out girls’ trip cliches for a gritty exploration of isolation and group dynamics. The story follows Amber (Bella Thorne) and her close circle…
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There’s something deeply unsettling about family in horror, especially when home starts feeling like a trap with better lighting. And if anyone knows how to twist that knife, it’s Joko Anwar, the mind behind Satan’s Slaves and Impetigore. Now he’s circling back with something a little more intimate. And by intimate, I mean ‘your childhood…
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The red band trailer for Faces of Death has arrived in all its blood soaked glory, and if the first preview was a warning shot, this one’s the full-blown grindhouse riot. This is the second look at the reimagining of one of horror’s most infamous titles, and it’s making it crystal clear: this isn’t nostalgia,…
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I don’t like video game adaptations. I mean, unless they’re done by Uwe Boll. But as a rule I avoid this sorts of things like the plague. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, whatever the fuck Borderlands was, these are the kinds of cinematic catastrophes that commint the cardinal sin of not even being so bad that…
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The 1978 movie Faces of Death is a rite of passage for horror fans. A supposed snuff/documentary type of film, it caused world wide panic of a sort when it was first released. It was allegedly banned in 46 countries (though that number was inflated for marketing purposes) yet the fact is that Faces of…
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2024’s In a Violent Nature was hailed as a unique Arthouse take on the slasher genre. Well paced, built with tension so thick you could cut a knife with it, leaving most fans begging for more. However, not all of us felt the same. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great take on the old…
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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…