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“Teacup” Review – Horror Mystery Series Creates an Intense Pressure Cooker Scenario

Meagan Navarro Ian McCulloch, James Wan, Peacock, Reviews, Teacup, TV

“Teacup,” Peacock’s new series executive produced by James Wan, is a tricky one to write about. Writer, producer, and showrunner Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone) draws very little from Robert McCammon’s Stinger, opting for a modern, minimalist interpretation of the horror western, one driven almost entirely by its central mystery. The eight-episode inaugural season is so structured around its enigmatic threat, […]

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‘Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft’ Blasts Through Mysticism, Monsters & Mayhem [Review]

Daniel Kurland Animation, lara croft, Netflix, Powerhouse Animation, Reviews, tomb raider, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, TV, Video Games

Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider series captures the essence of the popular gaming franchise and delivers an action-packed adventure that’s ripe with mysticism and monsters. Netflix has made a big splash as a streaming service that caused major waves in the television and film industry. One area in which Netflix particularly excels is that they’ve become […]

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‘Sweetpea’ Offers a Familiar But Entertaining ‘Meek to Murder’ Plot [Review]

Joe Lipsett Alexandra Dowling, Calam Lynch, Dustin Demri-Burns, Ella Jones, Ella Purnell, Jeremy Swift, Jon Pointing, Nicôle Lecky, Reviews, Starz, TV

At the start of Sweetpea, the new Starz/Sky Atlantic series adaptation of CJ Skuse’s novel of the same name, Rhiannon Lewis (Ella Purnell) is having a bad life. In voice-over, she catalogues the people she’d like to kill in a list that ranges from the man spreader on the bus and the cashier at the […]

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‘Hayride to Hell’ Review – Bill Moseley Stars in Fun Halloween Horror Movie

Geof Capodanno Bill Moseley, Hayride to Hell, Kane Hodder, Movies, Reviews

‘Tis the season for haunt enthusiasts! Whether it’s frequenting a highly produced setup like Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights or visiting much smaller local scare-house establishments, October gets most people lit for standing in long lines to get some real-life spooky jump scares. But if you want to experience the fun without leaving the comfort of […]

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‘Caddo Lake’ Review – Southern Genre Thriller Weaves a Tangled Mystery

Meagan Navarro Caddo Lake, Dylen O'Brien, MAX, Reviews

Strange things are happening at Caddo Lake. Drought-induced shallow waters exposes a series of past deaths and disappearances, forever altering a broken family’s history in the mysterious new genre thriller from writer/director team Celine Held & Logan George (“Servant”). What begins as a mysterious Southern thriller centered around a missing child quickly gives way to a […]

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‘Hellboy: The Crooked Man’ Is a Cursed Hex That Further Damns the Franchise [Review]

Daniel Kurland Brian Taylor, Hellboy, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Mike Mignola, Movies, Reviews

Despite an evocative atmosphere and a rewarding embrace of folk horror, Brian Taylor’s take on the big, red paranormal detective feels creatively lost in limbo.  Hellboy is a promising property that’s periodically stumbled with its live-action adaptations. There’s such a rich world to pull from here that brilliantly mashes together Lovecraftian horror, pulp detective fiction, […]

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‘Shock Induction’ – Meta Mind Control Manifesto Is Chuck Palahniuk’s Strongest Work in Years [Review]

Daniel Kurland Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Novels, Palahniuk, Reviews, Shock Induction

Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel is an experimental and subversive coming of age satire that skewers an increasingly commodified society through hallucinogenic hubris. “Clarity is paramount. Even when the goal is to create confusion.” Chuck Palahniuk is one of this generation’s most explosive and subversive storytellers, but there have been increasingly diminishing returns for his more […]

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‘Push’ Review – ‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Filmmakers Deliver Extremely Tense Home Invasion Movie

Meagan Navarro David Charbonier, Justin Powell, Movies, Push, Raúl Castillo, Reviews

Writers/Directors David Charbonier and Justin Powell (The Boy Behind the Door, The Djinn) have a way with single-location thrillers that are simplistic in setup but visceral in unrelenting suspense. Their style of lean, efficient storytelling that puts the horror first continues with their latest, Push (formerly titled Open House). Armed with a much bigger location and […]

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‘Solar Opposites: The Hunt for Brown October’ Creatively Combines Two Holiday Classics [Review]

Daniel Kurland Great Pumpkin, Halloween, halloween special, Hulu, Reviews, Solar Opposites, TV

‘Solar Opposites’ returns for a transformative Halloween special that gets to the crux of the spooky season by riffing on a Christmas classic. “Stop celebrating Halloween? Oh no, my pretty. I think you’ll find that you ARE Halloween.” Halloween specials have become a long and storied tradition in television and they’re a great opportunity for […]

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“Scare Tactics” Premiere Review – Jordan Peele’s Reboot Lacks Innovation

Paul Lê Jordan Peele, Monkeypaw Productions, Reviews, Scare Tactics, TV, USA Network

Hardly a month after MTV’s Punk’d premiered in 2003, The Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) debuted its own unique take on the hidden-camera format. Both series indeed played elaborate pranks on folks, but Scare Tactics set itself apart by placing everyday people in horror movie-like scenarios. This creep-show survived on its concept for a good five […]

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Lifetime’s ‘The Book Club Murders’ Features a Great Over the Top Killer [Review]

Joe Lipsett Aaron Goehle, Ainsley Burch, Brittany Underworld, Deven Bromme, Ebony Ramquist, Eva Igo, Joy Ford, Julia Zook, Kate Dailey, Kiki Yellam, lifetime, Logan Giese, Mike Bredon, Nicole Weber, Reviews

The Book Club Murders quite literally begins with a house on fire. Like many Lifetime films, the film will eventually circle back around to the cold open, but for a long stretch the image of a burning home hangs over the proceedings. Months have passed when the film proper begins: Natalie Johnston (Brittany Underworld) and […]

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‘Zoochosis’ Review – Tedious Gameplay and Cliche Story Fail to Live Up to Eye-Catching Concept

Aaron Boehm body horror, Clapperheads, PC, Reviews, steam, Video Games, Zoochosis

A great way to create horror is to take something that’s supposed to spark joy, then twist it into something sinister. Pennywise from It, the animatronic horrors of Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Doki Doki Literature Club all understand this concept and wield it like a knife. Clapperheads’ new game Zoochosis applies this concept to […]

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“The Creep Tapes” Review – Peachfuzz Is Back and Weirder Than Ever in New TV Series

Meagan Navarro Creep, Fantastic Fest 2024, Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Reviews, The Creep Tapes, TV

Creep and its sequel, Creep 2, introduced an offbeat, darkly funny and deeply weird serial killer who preyed upon videographers, documenting the awkward social dance leading up to their unwitting murder. Co-writer/Director Patrick Brice and co-writer/star Mark Duplass created a memorable new horror villain, one that initially disarmed with boyish charms before ramping up the […]

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‘The Severed Sun’ Review – Folk Horror Tale Offers Timeless Message [FF 2024]

Trace Thurman Dean Puckett, Fantastic Fest 2024, Folk Horror, Reviews, The Severed Sun

Evil comes in many forms. In horror films, it’s often in the form of an inhuman creature or supernatural entity. With folk horror films, however, evil is often personified in people and their actions, seeing the sub-genre interrogate the dark nature of mankind. In The Severed Sun, writer/director Dean Puckett‘s feature debut, a creature may […]

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‘MadS’ Review – A Single-Take Outbreak Horror Movie from the Director of 2006’s ‘Them’

Meagan Navarro David Moreau, Fantastic Fest 2024, MadS, Reviews

Director David Moreau knows a thing or two about helming intense horror set over the course of a single evening; the filmmaker previously unnerved with the 2006 home invasion horror Ils (Them). His latest, MadS, takes it a step further with an energetic horror movie presented as a single continuous take tracking a night that […]

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