Category: Horror Movies
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Review: ‘Find Your Friends’ parties hard—and 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 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. 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 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. 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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Pride 2026: The Queer Joy of ‘Frankenhooker’
JustWatch.com 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. Frank Henenlotter has a special knack for conjuring up outlandish stories, rooted in 1950s sci-fi, that resonate with current cultural and…
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Pride 2026: ‘The Serpent’s Skin’ slithers with sapphic seduction
JustWatch.com 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. Alice Maio Mackay has the single most consistent body of work of any current indie filmmaker. And she’s only…
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Stream & Scream: FoundTV (June 2026)
If you’re a found footage fiend, you’re gonna wanna listen up. *whispers* why aren’t you subscribed to foundtv yet? It’s easily the best hub for found footage there is. On the heels of the latest Streaming Essentials guide, featuring the likes of Deadware and The Ceremony is about to Begin, it’s time to look ahead…
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Review: ‘The Dead Place’ taps into micro-budget excellence
High school trauma lies at the focus of writer/director Michael Pickle’s debut feature, The Dead Place. The micro-budget film works its magic through a strong lead performance by Idris Veliu and a truly deranged outing from David Howard Thornton, most known for playing Art the Clown in the Terrifier films. With a character-driven script, it…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Alice Maio Mackay (The Serpent’s Skin)
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. Alice Maio Mackay has released six feature films (with a seventh in the can), and she’s only 21. As creative…
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11 Best Mad Women in Horror
Mad Women is among the best subgenres of horror. Who doesn’t love a bit of feminine rage cut through the lens of the anti-hero or the straight-up villain? Cinema is littered with mad women getting revenge or sinking into the depths of insanity. It’s a staple. Even more, actors slither into these roles with poison-tipped…
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Review: ‘Victorian Psycho’ shows Maika Monroe at her best
Maika Monroe reaches a creative pinnacle in Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Feito, is an exquisite portrait of a psychotic woman. Wigon brings the monstrous, Lizzie Borden-esque story to throbbing vitality through inventive camera work (think: the door-chopping scene in The Shining) and a…
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Review: ‘New Fears Eve’ stabs slashers through the heart
Slashers are all the rage these days. Terrifier, Totally Killer, Sick, Heart Eyes, and X are just a few of the slashers that have made waves in the genre in recent years. Co-directors Eric Huskisson and P.J. Starks toss their irreverent indie slasher, New Fears Eve, into the ring. Starks, who wrote the script, laces…
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Stream & Scream: Shudder (June 2026)
The summer kicks off with Shudder’s sweltering June lineup. With the release of their originals, exclusive films, and new-to-Shudder titles, it’s guaranteed to help you beat the heat. You’ll find fairy tales, gripping and savage social commentary, and a religious horror film that’ll knock your socks off. Additionally, The Terror: Devil in Silver and Tales…
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Thrill Me: Obsession
Did Curry Barker’s Obsession make you rage? Did you want to set houses on fire? Or smash your head against a brick wall? Well, I’ve got the playlist for you. In the latest Thrill Me, I’ve compiled songs inspired by the tragic Nikki, played perfectly by Inde Navarrette. Many are about killing men, head-banging anger,…
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This is one of my favorite horror comedies that's came out in a long time. It's the absolute perfect popcorn…
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