Category: Horror Movies
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Someone’s Daughter’ analyzes moral judgements around rape
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter arrives like a hive of angry bees in a hot tin roof. Von Carolsfeld, who co-wrote the script with Doug Taylor, mines the rape/revenge genre with a fine-tooth comb. She pulls on threads found in Promising Young Woman and Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, which in turn…
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Review: ‘Watchful Eyes’ upends every expectation
JustWatch.com Gianluca Lasaracina’s Watchful Eyes is your standard found footage filmโuntil it isn’t. Lasaracina, who co-wrote the script with Riccardo Silli and Filippo Tancredi, shows great respect for the first-person POV format. He understands how to build relationship dynamics, conflict, atmosphere, and mood that’ll tighten your skin. He uses reliable conventions to engage with the…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘You Are the Film’ is a sweet meta romp
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Makoto Ueda surprises with his directorial debut, You Are the Film. At a time when theatrical tentpole films push creative and thematic boundaries, seeing an independent film follow suit with its own unique spin on genre storytelling is quite refreshing. Ueda ambitiously ventures into a mind-melting space to explore themes…
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Fantasia 2026: ‘Big Break’ bulldozes comedy horror dividing line
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Ian Faria’s Big Break is sure to be a romping crowd pleaser. The film mines the comedy/horror chops of genre titans such as Josh Ruben, Patrick Brice, and Mark Duplass. Written by Sam Lanier, it incisively cuts into the dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood and the strain that fame puts on…
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Review: ‘Autonomous’ drives over our fear of robot cabs
Much like AI itself, AI-focused horror permeates our lives these days. And not every single film or TV show works (e.g., Chris Weitz’s 2024 film, Afraid). When it hits, though, it really hits. Kyle Valle’s Autonomous film, shown in bite-sized episodes on Screamify, firmly sits in the latter category. Its exploration of a fractured relationship,…
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Review: ‘Stream’ slashes through our salivating fixation with the macabre
The slasher renaissance continues raging on with Michael Leavy’s Stream. When it comes to a post-Scream world, slashers either comment on current culture or harken to the slasher boom of the ’80s. For every Totally Killer, there’s a Terrifier feeling ripped from yesteryear. Leavy, who co-wrote the script with Steven Della Salla, Jason Leavy, and…
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The 50 Best Thrillers & Horror Movies of 2026 (So Far)
2026 is a banner year for horror. While Backrooms and Obsession wrecked the box office, there are dozens of indie films that were just as good as, if not better than, the tentpole theatrical releases. With the mid-year point, it’s time to take stock of what we’ve seen so far and what’s stood out most.…
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Fantasia Festival 2026: 20 Most Anticipated Horror Films
Fantasia Film Festival‘s 30th edition is less than two weeks away! It seems just like yesterday that the 2025 festival took place. This year’s lineup might be the best yet, with countless films ranging from vintage slashers to bone-rattling psychological thrillers, promising to blow the minds of horror audiences. When it comes to narrowing down…
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5 Horror Movies That Made Me: Chris VanderKaay
Steven Espinoza’s Go to Sleep may be a bit of a, well, sleeper. A FoundTV original, the film follows a newly separated man suffering from sleepwalking. His midnight wanderings become so dangerous that he installs cameras to find out exactly what he’s up to. Chris VanderKaay, writer and actor of the project, shares the five…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Isaiah Rice (Axel’s Night)
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands isย raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays.ย Donate here. Isaiah Rice, the writer and actor of the short film Axel’s Night (review), doesn’t want to be called a “horror filmmaker.” He…
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Stream & Scream: Shudder (July 2026)
Summer is just barreling ahead. With rising temperatures (and inflation), there’s no better place to beat the heat (and prices) than in your home with Shudder. This July looks to be the best yet, with the streaming service adding several original and exclusive films. There are also several watch parties planned, including one featuring a…
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Review: ‘I Don’t Like It Here’ doesn’t shy away from heart-pounding scares
Robbie Smith demonstrates that, once again, indie horror is where all the good stuff is. His new film, I Don’t Like It Here, co-written with Dashiell Arkenstone, marries the creep-out factor of Dutch Marich’s Horror in the High Desert films and the later sequels in Turner Clay’s The Blackwell Ghost series, with a dash of…
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Review: ‘Jacked’ jolts the slasher genre awake
The slasher boom of the 1980s was a special time for horror. The genre eventually moved on to other styles, but through the decades, the pendulum has swung back at various points. From the brief Scream-induced period of the late ’90s and early 2000s to the current slasher renaissance, slashers always come back. Just like…
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Chattanooga Film Festivalย 2026: ‘Night After Night’ is wonderfully confusing
Liminal Horror is having a moment. In addition to Backrooms crashing the box office, entries like Exit 8 have stirred up plenty of conversation online. Now, Josh Lobo throws his film Night After Night into the ring. Lobo, who co-wrote the script with Rowan Russell, builds a hypnotic and strange tale that doesn’t make a…
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Stream & Scream: Screambox (July 2026)
Screambox is a bit of a sleeper. Horror fans take it for granted, but in the last year, it’s been biting at Shudder’s heels. With its mid-summer lineup, the streaming service plots four new episodes of Bloody Bites, an exclusive film release, catalog highlights, and so much more. As the temperature continues to boil (here…
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