Category: Horror Movies
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Pride 2026: The Queer Joy of ‘Frankenhooker’
JustWatch.com 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. 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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Review: ‘The Currents’ captures the tumultuous waters of depression
Milagros Mumethaler read Siri Hustvedtโs The Shaking Woman, in which Hustvedt describes an experience of her body and mind enduring very different circumstances, and the story became the impetus for her new film. The Currents sinks below the depths of the subconscious and fishes out dark existential questions about what it means to live, to…
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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 everโImpetigore, 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 thingโwomen 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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[…] However, his songs here are as relevant and crushing as ever, as queer non-binary music critic Bee Delores recently…
[…] parental instinct at its core, which Ehrlich argued lands even through the film’s excesses. B-Sides & Badlands described the…