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Review: Samara Weaving kills in ‘Over Your Dead Body’
Samara Weaving is already having quite a year. While Ready or Not 2 currently plays in theaters and Carolina Caroline with Kyle Galner releases this summer, she sees another project landing this weekend. Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body features Samara Weaving in her most primal state. Nothing will ever surpass that throaty wolf howl
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Panic Fest 2026: ‘Don’t Sleep Alone’ provokes sleepless nights
If you suffer from sleep paralysis, you know how debilitating and terrifying it can be. For many, a black shape creeps from the corner of the room and hovers by their bedside. Others might not see a figure at all, but rather a suffocating blanket of dread surrounding them. Writer/director Talo Silveyra excavates pure fear
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The Singles Bar: JORDY exposes raunchy new single, ‘Dumb’
JORDY never misses. With his body-grinding new song, “Dumb,” he takes to the dance floor and (metaphorically) strips off all his clothes. “Are you into it?” he asks through the hypnotic glow of the laser show. Synths side-wind through sweat and too many cosmos, with JORDY slickly sliding over the melody with the seduction of
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Panic Fest 2026: ‘Demonetize’ marries scares and silliness
Influencer Horror isn’t for everyone. From Deadstream to Super Host and Livestream, the subgenre applies exploitative behaviors to horrifying situations to explore the deterioration of humanity, social trends, and our complicity in brainrot. Writer/director Alexander Watson fits his new film, Demonetize, playing this year’s Panic Fest, snugly into a similar thematic box. The film’s title,
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The Singles Bar: Willow Avalon commits a ‘Cardinal Sin’ (with Jason Isbell)
Willow Avalon‘s voice is not unlike a lark. She sculpts her images with a raspy smoothness that torments the senses. Add the one and only Jason Isbell into the mix, and you have a recipe for one of the year’s best collaborations. With “Cardinal Sin,” Avalon confesses that she’s fallen in love “with him while
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Panic Fest 2026: Shorts Roundup, Volume 2
Panic Fest 2026 is still not quite over yet. As I dash to the finish line (I have a few films to watch, as of this writing), numerous reviews and interviews in the can confirm that this year’s festival might be the best in a long time. Various short blocks have been particularly rich with
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Review: ‘Better Anything’ digs up regret & retribution
Horror uniquely weaves many genres into one. That’s part of what makes it such a special medium. With his new short film, writer/director Jonjo Lyons knits drama, mystery, and horror into a gripping tapestry. Better Anything feels akin to An Unquiet Grave in tone, story, and visual identity. But it firmly carries its own gnarly
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Panic Fest 2026: ‘Creature of the Pines’ redefines found footage
Found-footage freaks will want to put Creature of the Pines on their watchlist immediately. Playing this year’s Panic Fest, the film, co-written and co-directed by Tyler Transue and Chris Ruppert, makes camping scary again. It’s easy to draw comparisons to The Blair Witch, but that’s simply reductive. Creature of the Pines uses its 1999 predecessor as a
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Overlook Film Festival 2026: ‘The Holy Boy’ delivers a twisted religious experience
Paolo Strippoli’s The Holy Boy, which plays the 2026 Overlook Film Festival, bears a striking (emotional) resemblance to Rose Glass’ 2019 breakout, Saint Maud. Both films analyze modern religion, the exploitation of the vulnerable, and the role the hive-mind plays in perpetuating evil in God’s name. Strippoli co-wrote the razor-sharp script with Jacopo Del Giudice
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Review: ‘The Fuzzies’ will make you nightmarishly cozy
There are horror films like Josh Funk’s The Fuzzies that just make you all, well, warm and fuzzy inside. Co-written with Dustin Vaught, the film retools childhood wonder into an agonizingly bizarre stroll down memory lane. In adulthood, society tells us that we need to put away childish things, like our love of cartoons, anime
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Panic Fest 2026: Shorts Roundup, Volume 1
My head is still spinning from Panic Fest 2026, much like Regan in The Exorcist (minus the possession). And I’m far from done! What impressed me the most was the talent of writers and directors making short films. From concepts to execution, the filmmakers are undoubtedly ones to watch. The new wave of horror tastemakers
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Overlook Film Festival 2026: ‘Exit 8’ twists liminal space
Genki Kawamura guides you into a relentless loop.
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Panic Fest 2026: ‘Jump Scare’ is the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ sequel we deserve
Donnie Hobbie proves that riffing on the 1974 classic can be done.
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I thought it was a pretty mean doc. As a Woman, I wanted to love it. Many of the moments…
Can’t wait to see the whole film! Great sets, and I love the puppets. Plus, the kid in the little…