Category: Horror Movies
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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 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. 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 new—Final 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’ Diabolic—or 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 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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