Category: Horror Movies
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5 Horror Movies That Made Me: Erin รine & Kyle Valle (Autonomous)
AI Horror captures the state of our reality in ways other horror subgenres do not. With their bite-sized horror series, Autonomous, actor Erin รine and director Kyle Valle explore a rideshare cab gone rogue and the real terror of the unknown. In a new 5 Horror Movies That Made Me segment, the pair share their…
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Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,’ a spiritual remake of ‘Sleepaway Camp’
Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 camp slasher Sleepaway Camp still divides audiences. Many queer viewers find the surprise ending quite transphobic, while others read the twist in very different terms. However you cut it, the landmark film speaks to queer audiences very specifically and continues to be a point of heated conversation on- and offline. In their…
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Review: ‘Big Baby’ is the perfect summertime slasher
We are living and breathing a slasher renaissance right now. This year alone, we have Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Pierre Tsigaridis’ Frankie, Maniac Woman, Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death, and Radio Silence’s Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Now, you can add Spider One’s gloriously fun and bloody, soon-to-be…
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Horror in Frame: Spider One, Krsy Fox, & Brandon Scott (Big Baby)
Spider One’s Big Baby makes a case for one of the year’s best slashers. For slasher fans of the classic ’80s style, the indie film perfectly captures the spirit and splatter of the genre in its heyday. And there’s no shortage of commentary on podcast culture, the moral implications of murder, and the impact of…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘When You Open the Door’ slams shut immediately
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Eriko Katagiri’s When You Open the Door moves at an agonizingly glacial pace and guns for the feeling, tone, and approach of Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, but it fails to move or provoke in any significant way. It’s poetically dreary without the weight of real, affecting lyricism…
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Review: ‘Nightborn’ sprouts folk horror tentacles
Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn marries the folk horror of Avery Crounse’s Eyes of Fire with the newborn terror of Rosemary’s Baby and the reality-melting of Darren Aronofsky’s mother! While the film feels thematically similar to dozens of films we’ve previously seen, the performances enrich the script, co-written by Bergholm and Ilja Rautsi, with a coarse emotional…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters of Steve Johnson’
First-time director Nick Taylor brings special effects makeup artist Steve Johnson’s life and work to pulsing vitality in a brand new documentary. Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters of Steve Johnson peeks behind the curtain for an intimate glimpse into all the ups and downs of the business and Johnson’s personal…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘The Last Footage’ goes absolutely nowhere
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Arkar Soe Oo’s The Last Footage packs every found footage clichรฉ into its 88-minute runtime and fails to generate any level of fear. Many filmmakers believe found footage films are quite easy to makeโgive your friends a camera and shoot. Easy peasy, right? As we’ve seen with other indie films…
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Stream & Scream: FoundTV (August 2026)
August is here, and I have just one question for you, dear reader:ย Why arenโt you subscribed to FoundTV yet? It is the go-to hub for all things found footage, screenlife, and mockumentaries. This month, the streaming service nabs an exclusive and a host of other must-see features that’ll chill your blood and keep you up…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Corpus’ is pure queer cinema
1990s media (film, television, etc.) portrayed New York City as a sticky, sweaty, and thrilling concrete jungle of sexual liberation and pure abandon. It makes sense, then, that filmmaker Corrin Evans places her story during the peak of post-grunge and Lilith Fair, a period which saw youth growing increasingly reckless in their pursuit of freedom…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Unholy Night’ is a welcome addition to Christmas horror
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Michael Gabriele’s Unholy Night twists together the campiness of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the cheery terror of Krampus, and the sobering aftertaste of Camille Griffin’s Silent Night. In recent years, the pool of well-made Christmas/holiday horror films has expandedโSilent Night Deadly Night (2025), Christmas Bloody Christmas, and Advent Calendar among…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Insectasy’ never fully hatches
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Angus Silver’s Insectasy aims for bizarro eroticism, but it neither gets gross and weird enough nor sexually charged enough to arouse the senses. Its sticky 1960s and ’70s aesthetic, from its carefully peculiar zoom shots and visual crackle, rips from the classics such as Dark Argento’s Phenomena (also referencing its…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Home Bodies’ goes through the motions
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Casey Walker’s Home Bodies robotically shuffles between homage and a sleepy The Twilight Zone carbon copy. Sci-fi thrillers can so easily fall into the Black Mirror trap, or better yet feel too indebted to the Rod Serling-created television show to carve out a unique place of their own. As such,…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Ancestral Beasts’ lacks bite, vision, and purpose
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Tim Riedel’s Ancestral Beasts follows a well-trodden path of familial roots, burying the past, and learning to move on. But it fails to generate anything meaningful and fresh for the conversation. It arrives in the world merely as an amalgam of better films with more gripping performances, better scripts, and…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ spins a harrowing queer folk tale
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Kasper Kalle’s No Rest for the Wicked adapts the 1884 short story, Manor, written by German author and out gay man Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and spins a beautiful and tragic, stunning and despairing, and poetic and terrifying love story. Kalle, who co-wrote the script with Rasmus Birch, examines the vilification…
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