Month: January 2024

‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Review – A Personal Portrait of Dysphoria and Surreal Horror

Meagan Navarro A24, Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun, Justice Smith, Reviews, Sundance 2024

Writer/Director Jane Schoenbrun’s feature debut, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, captured the isolating nature of online culture via creepypasta horror through non-narrative, visual storytelling. Schoenbrun continues that core theme of dysphoria in their sophomore effort, I Saw the TV Glow, now armed with a bigger budget that allows the filmmaker to get even more personal while evolving […]

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Explore Vampire Psyches in The Darkly Humorous ‘Vampire Therapist’ [Trailer]

Mike Wilson Little Bat Games, PC, steam, Vampire Therapist, Video Games, Videos

Little Bat Games is keen on finding out just what makes vampires tick with their debut title, Vampire Therapist. Coming to Steam on June 17, players will be putting that armchair psychiatrist role to the test with real-life therapy techniques as you examine and deconstruct vampire psyches from different historical periods. Vampire Therapist  is described […]

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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Sundance Review – Kristen Stewart Shines in Ultra-Violent Genre-Bending Thriller

Meagan Navarro A24, Kristen Stewart, Love Lies Bleeding, Reviews, Rose Glass, Sundance 2024

Filmmaker Rose Glass has an audacious way of exploring obsession, pushing it to extremes in beguiling, genre-defying ways. Her feature debut, Saint Maud, centered on a nurse who took her religious fanaticism to extremes, compounded by an obsession with her latest patient. Glass’s sophomore effort, Love Lies Bleeding, wields obsession as a destructive coping mechanism for the pain that […]

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Roguelike Dungeon Crawler ‘HELLCARD’ Leaves Early Access on February 1st

Mike Wilson early access, HELLCARD, PC, steam, Thing Trunk, Video Games

A week after releasing the final Early Access update, developer Thing Trunk has announced that their roguelike deckbuilding game HELLCARD will be leaving Early Access and fully launching on February 1st. “It’s been almost a year since HELLCARD launched in Early Access,” reads the update from the devs. “During this time we got loads of […]

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‘It’s What’s Inside’ Review – A Twisty Funhouse of Sci-Fi Comedy-Horrors

Meagan Navarro It's What's Inside, Reviews, Sundance 2024

Dark secrets, resentment, and jealousy raucously bubble up to the surface in writer/director Greg Jardin’s feature debut, It’s What’s Inside. A pre-wedding reunion amongst former college friends begins with easy revelry as eight gather to reminisce and imbibe in mind-altering substances. Only none know just how mind-bending the night will become when a suitcase emerges to introduce […]

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‘Presence’ Sundance Review – Steven Soderbergh’s Thrilling New Spin on the Haunted House

Meagan Navarro Lucy Liu, Presence, Reviews, Steven Soderbergh, Sundance 2024

Unsane director Steven Soderbergh reunites with Kimi screenwriter David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) to give an innovative new spin on the quintessential ghost story. Presence frames its haunted events entirely from the perspective of its ghost. From the opening frame until the end credits, audiences see the thrilling story unfold through chilling narrative twists via Soderbergh’s experimentation with form and technique. Using the camera’s […]

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“Ninja Kamui” Exclusive Trailer – Violent Anime Series Premieres 2/10 on Adult Swim’s Toonami!

John Squires Adult Swim, Exclusives, Ninja Kamui, Toonami, TV

Announced earlier this week, a brand new original anime series titled “Ninja Kamui” is coming to Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block next month, and Bloody Disgusting has been provided with a first look at the bloody-as-hell official trailer this morning. A former ninja clan member swears vengeance upon a mysterious shadow organization that killed his […]

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‘Your Monster’ Sundance Review – Melissa Barrera Dazzles in Disjointed Monstrous Metaphor Tale

Meagan Navarro Melissa Barrera, Reviews, Sundance 2024, Your Monster

Scream heroine Melissa Barrera dazzles in Caroline Lindy‘s feature debut, Your Monster, an expansion of her short film. A wholesome, whimsical romance befitting of a classic Hollywood musical but with dark underpinnings, Your Monster lets Barrera showcase her range and singing chops, though, even when it can’t quite decide on a cohesive approach to its monstrous […]

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‘Last Night at Terrace Lanes’ Review – Bowling Slasher Lands Somewhere Between Strike and Gutterball

Joe Lipsett Adam Cesare, Christopher Walker, Francesca Capaldi, Jamie Nash, Jenna St. John, ken arnold, Last Night at Terrace Lanes, Mia Rae Roberts, Reviews, slasher

In the pantheon of cool horror movie locations, the bowling alley is an overlooked gem. Unsurprisingly, the tendency to feature a disembodied body part being flung down the lane means that such films are frequently horror comedies (think Anna and the Apocalypse, Cabin Fever, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Fright Night 2). Last […]

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The Return of the ‘Anaconda’ Franchise Reportedly Taking a Meta Approach?

John Squires anaconda, Movies

After spawning three sequels and a spinoff crossover film with the Lake Placid franchise (no really, that totally happened), the 1997 film Anaconda is plotting a return to the screen. We’ve heard various reports in the past several years about the future of the Anaconda franchise, and this latest one comes from Jeff Sneider over at The Hot […]

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‘The Babadook’ Gave Rise to a New Wave of Introspective Horror Ten Years Ago

Jenn Adams Editorials, Jennifer Kent, Movies, The Babadook

Warning: The following contains major spoilers for The Babadook. The first time I watched The Babadook, I nearly had a nervous breakdown. It was March of 2015. My husband, a CPA, was deep in the throes of tax season, leaving me alone for long stretches of time with our one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter who […]

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“The Dead Hour” – Binge Seasons 1+2 of Terror Films’ Anthology Series on SCREAMBOX!

Brad Miska Screambox, The Dead Hour, TV

Fans of Terror Films (The Taking of Deborah Logan, Savageland, and the Hell House LLC films) get ready for a full three seasons of their binge-worthy anthology series “The Dead Hour”, which has been unloading over the past few weeks. Each episode features a mysterious late-night radio host (Melissa Holder) who delves into different horrifying tales […]

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‘Freaky Tales’ Sundance Review – Energetic Genre Mixtape Starring Pedro Pascal Revels in ‘80s Excess

Meagan Navarro Freaky Tales, Reviews, Sundance 2024

Writer/Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck interconnect four energetic, frequently bloody stories in infectious anthology Freaky Tales. The filmmakers set Freaky Tales in 1987 Oakland, capturing the subculture of the Bay Area amidst the peak of ‘80s excess. It yields an anything-goes anarchic spirit that, when combined with an impressive cast game for this type of madness, plays like a stylish and […]

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These Are the Only Five Horror Franchises to Hit the $1 Billion Box Office Milestone

John Squires Alien, It!, Movies, Resident Evil, Saw, The Conjuring

What are the highest grossing horror movies of all time? More specifically, what are the highest grossing horror franchises of all time? On the list of the Top 20, only FIVE franchises in the history of the genre have crossed the $1 billion mark. Can you guess which ones? Franchises including The Purge, A Nightmare […]

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‘Big Driver’ and ‘A Good Marriage’ Make a Dark Double Stephen King Feature [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Jenn Adams a good marriage, Anthony LaPaglia, Big Driver, Joan Allen, Joan Jett, Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Podcasts, Stephen King

In all of Stephen King’s massive catalog, few works are as bleak as his 2010 novella collection Full Dark, No Stars. Rather than supernatural entities, these four dark tales feature human monsters and deal with the horrors that live inside the human heart. Two novellas serve as mirror images of each other, exploring the female […]

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