Category: Horror Movies
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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 Hustvedt’s 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 ever—Impetigore, 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 thing—women 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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15 Best Horror Remakes of All Time
Remakes in horror have been a thing since the 1920s and ’30s. It’s strange when casual horror fans complain about remakes when they’ve always had a place in horror. Remakes didn’t quite hit their stride until the 1980s, when the advent of gooey practical effects (as we know them today) gave way to fresher perspectives…
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Review: ‘Touch Me’ is the perfect orgasmic salve for millennial depression
Sex with an extraterrestrial being leads to freedom from anxiety and depression in Addison Heimann’s Touch Me. It’s akin to 2016’s The Untamed but super gay and super stylish. Aliens have been a staple of horror and sci-fi since the dawn of storytelling. Unlike alien intrusion films of the 1950s, we’re not necessarily scared of…
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Streaming Essentials: Shudder (May 2026)
Shudder reigns supreme in horror streaming, as far as I’m concerned. There’s never a shortage of gripping and terrifying tales to behold. From its very first original, Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, it was quite clear that whoever was guiding the ship knew their shit. While it took a few years for the service to rev its…
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Join B-Sides & Badlands in Raising Money for The Trevor Project This Pride!
The time is now. To come together. To raise money. To burn the MAGA system to the ground. For Pride 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project to support vulnerable queer youth. The goal is $1,000, and I’m hoping we reach that, or better yet, exceed it. I have countless video…
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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…