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Tag: Shudder

  • Little Bites Ask an Age-Old Question in a Monstrously New Way

    How far would a mother go to save her children? Horror movies have been asking and answering that question for decades, but none have done it quite like Little Bites. Most films use the tried-and-true trope of a woman who turns into a monster to keep her kids safe and/or healthy (or just alive!), but…

  • V/H/S Beyond Puts a Sci-Fi Spin on the Found Footage Franchise

    If there’s one thing we horror fans love, it’s franchises. We’re always super excited to see the next installment of our favorite film series, but most of the time, these sequels don’t live up to the hype. In fact, they usually get worse and worse, so by the time part six or seven rolls around,…

  • Azrael: The Angel of Death Comes for the Righteous

    If 2023’s No One Will Save You proved anything, it’s that there is a market for originality in how we tell our stories. The straight-to-Hulu release of the Kaitlin Dever-led alien abduction movie was positively received overall and supported the idea that a great story can transcend dialogue. Now, almost exactly a year later, Channel…

  • Fantastic Fest 2024: Daddy’s Head Is Way Better than Its Silly Name Suggests

    I love monsters, and I love films about grief. So naturally, if you put those two together, I’m all in, and that’s exactly what drew me to Daddy’s Head. While I thought the name sounded a bit silly, the plot synopsis was intriguing as hell. It instantly caught my attention, so I just had to…

  • The Demon Disorder Calls You to Fulfill Your Oath

    I don’t know about you, but I think The Demon Disorder is a great name for a horror movie. It’s short and to the point, and the alliteration makes it roll off the tongue with an almost poetic ease. It immediately caught my attention the first time I heard it, and when I saw the…

  • Out Come the Wolves Puts a Love Triangle in Mortal Danger

    I’m not going to lie, when I first heard about Out Come the Wolves, I immediately thought of Rancid’s seminal 1995 album with almost the exact same name. That’s just how my punk rock-saturated brain works, but as irrelevant as that connection is, it proved to be quite fortuitous. It piqued my interest, and when…

  • Fantasia 2024: An On the Rails Mystery Helps Oddity Craft Supernatural Scares

    As a horror lover and reviewer, very little creeps up and surprises me. The ones that do often make the year-end lists. Reading about director Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity over the last few weeks as it was released in US theaters and seeing the photos of the film’s wooden doll, I wasn’t sure what to…

  • 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…

  • In a Violent Nature Gives Us a New Perspective on Horror

    Have you ever wondered what Jason Vorhees does when he’s not chopping up hapless camp counselors? Or what Freddy Krueger does when the Elm Street children are awake? If you answered yes to those questions, you can understand why I was so intrigued by In a Violent Nature. I’m admittedly not a huge slasher fan,…

  • A Bit of a Mixed Baghead

    Toward the end of 2023, I started hearing the name Baghead a lot. The film played a few fests and had a theatrical run overseas before finding its home at Shudder. The trailer had dropped at the start of December, and I have to admit, I was hyped. It boasted an interesting bit of originality…