Category: Horror Movies
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Review: ‘sMOTHERed’ makes you second-guess everything
Co-directors Rafki Hidayat and Kevin Rahardjo’s latest joins the ranks of the best expertly crafted Indonesian horror films ever—Impetigore, May the Devil Take You, and Grave Torture among modern horror’s finest offerings. sMOTHERed is far more than meets the eye, transforming from one kind of film into another one entirely. Very hard left turns hit…
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The Picture Show: ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2003) & ‘The Bride!’ (2026)
Remakes are complicated creatures. It takes vision, craft, and understanding of the original film to get it right. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. From my Best Horror Remakes of All Time list, it’s a good time to dissect what I consider to be the two best remakes to date. In The Picture…
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Review: ‘Saccharine’ sinks its teeth into diet culture
You probably picked up on the use of fat suits and prosthetics in the trailer. Writer/director Natalie Erika James’ Saccharine plays on society’s disgust of fat bodies and its obsession with diet culture. The film endorses neither and tears down the latter, feeding the growing disdain of diet pills and extreme exercise. There’s never a…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Dave Bekerman (TRAD)
If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, specifically, you’ll likely stumble across Tradwife-Tok. It’s a very real thing—women teaching their viewers how to be a tradwife, or teaching men how to make their wives tradwives. With his new short film, TRAD, filmmaker Dave Bekerman uses his discovery of this social media subculture as…
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15 Best Horror Remakes of All Time
Remakes in horror have been a thing since the 1920s and ’30s. It’s strange when casual horror fans complain about remakes when they’ve always had a place in horror. Remakes didn’t quite hit their stride until the 1980s, when the advent of gooey practical effects (as we know them today) gave way to fresher perspectives…
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Review: ‘Touch Me’ is the perfect orgasmic salve for millennial depression
Sex with an extraterrestrial being leads to freedom from anxiety and depression in Addison Heimann’s Touch Me. It’s akin to 2016’s The Untamed but super gay and super stylish. Aliens have been a staple of horror and sci-fi since the dawn of storytelling. Unlike alien intrusion films of the 1950s, we’re not necessarily scared of…
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Streaming Essentials: Shudder (May 2026)
Shudder reigns supreme in horror streaming, as far as I’m concerned. There’s never a shortage of gripping and terrifying tales to behold. From its very first original, Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, it was quite clear that whoever was guiding the ship knew their shit. While it took a few years for the service to rev its…
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Join B-Sides & Badlands in Raising Money for The Trevor Project This Pride!
The time is now. To come together. To raise money. To burn the MAGA system to the ground. For Pride 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project to support vulnerable queer youth. The goal is $1,000, and I’m hoping we reach that, or better yet, exceed it. I have countless video…
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Dacre Montgomery Cements His Horror Legacy in ‘Faces of Death’
Spoilers afoot! Dacre Montgomery is at his most frightening when he effortlessly switches between the socially awkward Francis and the bloodcurdling psychopath Arthur Spevak. In Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death reimagining (don’t call it a remake!), Montgomery slips into the mental derangement of a serial killer and stalks, torments, and murders innocent people in the…
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Thrill Me: Faces of Death (2026)
Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death reimagining (don’t call it a remake!) is easily one of my favorite remakes/reimaginings of all time (more on that soon…). It takes the source material and gives it a necessary upgrade. There’s an actual plot and characters to latch onto and follow! Dacre Montgomery delivers a particularly unsettling performance as…
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Review: ‘Strawstalker,’ deliciously campy influencer horror
Influencer Horror is an acquired taste. You’re either gonna love seeing the worst kinds of people get killed or be so repulsed by obnoxious content creators that you completely check out. There’s rarely an in-between. Writer/director George Henry Horton pulls out all the campy stops with Strawstalker, fitting somewhere among some of the best modern…
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‘Obsession’ Exposes What Men Really Think About Women
Spoilers afoot! There’s a single line of dialogue in Curry Barker’s Obsession that sums up the entire problem with men: “What would be so bad about being with me?” Bear (Michael Johnston) says this after the real Nikki (Inde Navarrette) breaks through the One Wish Willow spell and begs him to “just kill me.” Everything…
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‘Scream Therapy’ – A love letter to Nicolas Cage
Some of the best horror being made these days happens on the indie circuit. Cassie Keet’s Scream Therapy snuck under the radar, but I’ve been screaming about it ever since its release. Billed as a horror/comedy, the satanic film leans heavily into comedy with decorative horror elements. The physical and verbal gags mostly work, and…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Ronald Short (Tasty Bones)
Scary muppets wasn’t something I really needed until I saw The Fuzzies (review) earlier this year. With his new short film, Tasty Bones, writer/director Ronald Short keeps the frightening, fuzzy frenzy going with a playfully grotesque creation amidst the shadows and terror of the woods. Over a recent Zoom call, Short discussed rich folklore about…
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The Picture Show: Gnarly revenge in ‘Redux Redux’ & ‘Hunter Hunter’
“Revenge is a dish best served cold,” French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos coined in his 1782 novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (or Dangerous Liaisons). Many literary critics and historians believe this to be the very first use of the phrase. Centuries later, it still rings hot in the ears of filmmakers and other artists. Matthew…
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"Maybe the scary truth is that most of my sisters here aren’t failing because of male lead projects, it’s just…
Thanks for the review Bee!