Category: Horror Movies
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with George Henry Horton (Strawstalker)
Influencer Horror is all the rage these days. Especially on the indie circuit, the subgenre is easy to tap into and exploit for some good frights. And who doesn’t love to see the most insufferable people on the internet be killed? With his film, Strawstalker (review), writer/director/actor George Henry Horton goes for a deliciously silly…
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Review: ‘This Tempting Madness’ relishes in mind trickery
The unreliable narrator, as you’ll find in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), one of the earliest horror films, continues to fuel and inform horror storytelling 100 years later. Director Jennifer E. Montgomery, who co-wrote the script with Andrew Davis, injects the age-old cinematic device with a dose of adrenaline in her new film. This…
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Review: ‘Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma’ scams you (complementary)
Even the smartest, most detail-oriented people find themselves victims of an elaborate scam. Director Shane Brady and producer Emily Zercher anticipated the purchase of their new home. But wires were crossed, and financial institutions were hacked. That happens sometimes. Brady uses that experience as the basis for his new film, Hacked: A Double Entendre of…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Paul Etheredge (Hellbent)
Paul Etheredge changed the game with Hellbent, the first gay slasher. While it may have been overlooked or dismissed in the early 2000s, it has only grown in popularity over the years. Now, it's an essential foundational film for all queer horror fans. The supposedly unintentional queer-coded A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge…
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Review: ‘Snow Blinded’ causes an avalanche of naked weirdness
Writer/director Brian Lockyer reminds the viewer there’s great value in micro-budget horror filmmaking. You truly don’t need a big budget to make something people will remember. With his film, Snow Blinded, Lockyer does this and so much more through a terrifying, kaleidoscopic journey into madness. Meager resources work to his advantage, allowing him to expose…
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Review: ‘The Voices of Our Mother’ moans in pain
Filmmaker Mark O’Brien has a way of crafting his work with a powerfully unsettling exposure to the darkest parts of human nature. His feature film debut, 2021’s The Righteous, peeled back the layers of religious penitence in sharp, blinding ways. With his second outing, the equally probing The Voices of Our Mother, the writer/director leaves…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Christopher Wesley Moore (Children of Sin)
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. One of the great horrors of being queer is conversation therapy. With his 2022 film, Children of Sin, writer/director Christopher Wesley Moore…
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Review: ‘Go to Sleep’ proves sleepwalking will never not be terrifying
If A Nightmare on Elm Street has taught us anything, it’s that sleep can be deadly. With his new found footage film, Go to Sleep, director Steven Espinoza taps into the subconscious mind when under the spell of sleepwalking. Along with his co-writer Chris VanderKaay, whose own film .ask splashed onto the scene two years…
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Review: ‘Corporate Retreat’ cuts corporate culture down to size
The horrors of a corporate retreat are nothing newโFinal Destination 5, The Conference, and Severance quickly come to mind. In director Aaron Fisher’s very capable hands, though, the corporate retreat finds new life in his latest film, the aptly titled Corporate Retreat. Possessing the tone of Brandon Christensen’s Superhost, Fisher’s film configures terrible people trapped…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with Daniel J. Phillips (Diabolic)
While everyone’s obsessed with Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (for good reason!), folks are seriously sleeping on Daniel J. Phillips’ Diabolicโor at least severely underappreciating the work. In the ocean of religious horror that’s decorated the genre over the last 100+ years, Diabolic stands out as a real gem. From its suffocating dread…
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Review: ‘Find Your Friends’ parties hardโand then crashes out
Bella Thorne doesn’t get enough credit as an actor. In last year’s Saint Clare, the starlet delivered one of her best performances to date, wrapping herself in themes of trauma, retribution, and morality. Find Your Friends, directed by Izabel Pakzad, sees Thorne doubling down in a similar fashion for an equally gripping performance in a…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Parker Brennon (Hauntology)
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. We never have enough Queer Horror. With their debut feature film, writer/director Parker Brennon taps into something special with Hauntology, an anthology…
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Pride 2026: 22 Queer Horror Essentials
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is 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. Donate here. Horror has always been queer. And don’t let the fragile incels of the internet tell you any different. Since Mary Shelley wrote…
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My Horror Anatomy: Darren Hayman
It’s eerie that Darren Hayman would reissue his double-album, The Violence, at this point in time. Thematically, it speaks to the othering of marginalized communities, as seen through the 17th-century English Civil Wars and the East Anglian Witch Trials. In rooting it within a historical concept, Hayman demonstrates that history will always repeat itself. Originally,…
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Pride 2026: ‘Axel’s Night’ brings the sexy ‘Vamp’ heat
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. In the vein of Vamp and Def by Temptation, Brooky Coon’s Axel’s Night soaks in color and mood lighting. We get so…
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