Category: Horror Movies
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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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Let’s Get Physical: Arrow Video (June 2026)
The summer just got hot. Arrow Video has cooked up several limited edition releases, 4K UHD debuts, and box sets to kick things off in (horrifying) style. In the film distributor’s arsenal, there’s a noir-thriller, a J-horror classic, and some martial arts (utter) madness to dip your eyeballs into. And it’s glorious. The next several…
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Fantaspoa 2026: ‘Compliance’ makes you want to burn it all down
Throw out all expectations when you head into Kyle Mangione-Smith’s Compliance. It’s so intense and chaotic, it makes the 2012 film of the same name look like child’s play. It’s eerie that the screenlife film hit Fantaspoa at this moment in time, so soon after the Epstein Files and Luigi Mangione’s shooting of a healthcare…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with Jake Jarvi (Haunt Season)
Three years ago, I wrote a piece for Flood detailing the Slasher Renaissance. I never expected how much the subgenre would balloon out since then. Today, slashers are all the rage! And you can count Jake Jarvi’s Haunt Season (review) as one of the standouts from the current wave of hack ‘n slash bloodfests. Over…
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Review: ‘Salt Along the Tongue’ begs to be licked
Gastro-horror meets folk horror in writer/director Parish Malfitano’s Salt Along the Tongue. Making for a scrumptious double feature with Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner, the film contains countless frames of food being cooked, enjoyed, and communed over. Food connects us all, as they say. But food can also be weaponized for spell-casting of ill intent and…
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Streaming Essentials: FoundTV (May 2026)
Found Footage is sacred ’round these parts. It’s no surprise how much I love FoundTV (subscribe, before you die!) for its immense selection of the old and new. You’ll find landmark titles like The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal Holocaust nestled among some pretty rad new cuts that rival their predecessors in fear factor. You’re…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with P.J. Starks (New Fears Eve)
During the ongoing Slasher Renaissance, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of knockoffs and retreads. Eric Huskisson and P.J. Starks’ New Fears Eve feels both fresh and familiar. The directing duo taps into expectations without becoming stale or uninspired. During a recent Zoom call, Starks, who wrote the script, discusses pulling together the…
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10 Essential Proto-Slashers
Slashers might arguably be the most popular horror subgenre there is. Before John Carpenter’s Halloween perfected the formula in 1978, proto-slashers, including Psycho, Blood Feast (also part splatter flick), and Black Christmas, were a thing for at least 15 years or so. Many of those pre-Halloween entries mangled various slasher elements, such as a masked…
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Thrill Me: The Bride!
If you’re queer, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! likely smacked you squarely across the face. It did to me at least. This week’s Thrill Me playlist unsurprisingly centers on, well, The Bride (Jessie Buckley), and features bold and dark songs. Some brim with unfettered feminine/trans/queer rage. Others are musically somber, dimly lit, and carry significant, throbbing…
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Pride 2026: Call for Pitches from Queer Writers
The past 10 years have brought war down upon the heads of trans people. It’s frightening. We watch the news and doomscroll on social media, confronted with yet another stripping away of trans rights. We are all in the same boat. Once the administration is done with trans folx, they’re coming for the rest of…
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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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