Abigail
Abigail is exhibit A for not paying attention to trailers. Until a week ago, the only thing I knew about this film is that it was horror (and might have something to do with dance). Then I caught the tail … Continue reading
Abigail is exhibit A for not paying attention to trailers. Until a week ago, the only thing I knew about this film is that it was horror (and might have something to do with dance). Then I caught the tail … Continue reading
Arcadian is a movie that wants to be good without putting in the effort. It’s a sci-fi/horror art house wannabe… a scrappy movie put together on a limited budget trying to be a variation on The Quiet Place. A mysterious … Continue reading
You’ll Never Find Me is a Shudder original that had me, then lost me, then found me again, and ultimately lost me. It’s so well-crafted on a visual and audible front that I’m actively annoyed it felt it needed to … Continue reading
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones is a low (very low) budget film that’s not an adaptation of any one Lovecraft story… despite his name being a writing credit. Instead it’s a goofy amalgamation of a bunch of his ideas and … Continue reading
Based on the average rating, this review will be written by Hot Take McGee… who thinks this was a pretty great horror film. Not sure why the scores are so low. Maybe it doesn’t have enough standard horror bits, gore, … Continue reading
The First Omens wobbles continuously on the balance beam of bad that I feel kind of guilty scoring it higher than Immaculate. Not just because the two films are shockingly similar (and it’s not Omen’s fault it came out a … Continue reading
Loop Track is film about an introverted paranoid New Zealnder with social anxiety problems that make me look like a goddamn social butterfly. All he wants is to go for a long multi-day hike by himself, get away from the … Continue reading
Late Night with the Devil kind of surprised me by doing something a little different with the standard-issue found footage film. For one thing, it’s got more in common with something like Ghostwatch than Paranormal Activity. And it actually dares … Continue reading
Immaculate had the bones to be a great freak-out / campy horror film but it turned out full of generic scares to pad the already short 90 minute runtime. The film stars Sydney Sweeny as a young American sister who … Continue reading
Shaitaan is a Hindi-language Indian horror film that’s a different kind of Bollywood picture than I’m used to. Though, granted, I’ve only ever seen one other Indian horror film… everything else has been action flicks and romances. But this film … Continue reading