1980s nostalgia is out and 1990s nostalgia is in, with the horror genre doling out films like I Saw the TV Glow (review) and now Mr. Crocket, an adaptation of Brandon Espy’s 2022 short of the same name (itself a part of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series). Espy’s feature debut sadly sees the filmmaker struggling to find inspiration, […]
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Writer/Director Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot makes it easy to see why the previous two adaptations of Stephen King’s 1975 novel were miniseries. King packs his stories with rich character work and humanity, so much so that the 1979 and 2004 adaptations couldn’t condense 439 pages into any less than 181 minutes of runtime. After sitting […]
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I’ve been drawn into a couple of conversations over the last year or so, usually against my will, about the use of excessive signposting in video games. Recent releases like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the Separate Ways DLC for the Resident Evil 4 remake, and Still Wakes the Deep have slathered their environments in yellow […]
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‘Grotesquerie’ channels Se7en, Hannibal, Longlegs, and religious serial killer thrillers in a compelling two-handed murder mystery. “The end is near.” Grotesquerie, for all intents and purposes, is Season 13 of American Horror Story, only it’s operating under an original title because the AHS brand has become so tainted. It honestly feels like Grotesquerie might have […]
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Azrael, the latest from director E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest, You’re Next), takes the golden rule of showing, not telling, to heart. Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Scream VI) takes on the title role in this survival horror movie set in a post-Rapture world where speaking is forbidden. It makes […]
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You know how people always feel like there’s too many games coming out? Well one of the year’s most exciting games is actually 50 games in one! UFO 50, a collaboration between the devs behind Splunkey, Downwell, and many other indie classics, just came out, and it presents players with a collection of fifty original […]
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Filmmaker Benjamin Barfoot brings the creep factor in Daddy’s Head, an eerie creature feature centered on grief. Set in the immediacy of a sudden, tragic loss, Barfoot’s sophomore feature initially appears to be yet another monster metaphor that draws clear parallels to The Babadook. Luckily, Daddy’s Head forgoes the obvious metaphor for a gnarlier, oblique […]
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Charles Burn crafts a methodical masterpiece about self-discovery and main character syndrome that’s cast against Super 8 science fiction and the power of cinema. “I didn’t know it would be like this. I thought making a movie would be a lot more fun.” It’s hard to compare to the euphoria that’s experienced from a good […]
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In 2012, Kerry Bellessa’s Amber Alert was not well received by critics and viewers, particularly because of the main characters and the choices they made. So it was surprising when the same director returned twelve years later with what is essentially a remake of a rather divisive movie. The plot is, more or less, the […]
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Monsters as metaphors are nothing new to the world of fiction, allowing creators to find novel ways to explore the unknown through horror tropes. The genre has seen a surplus of films using this device in the 10 years since Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released to critical and commercial success, and we can now add […]
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While I think space horror sometimes feels like a known quantity as a subgenre, Mouthwashing, from developer Wrong Organ, constantly kept me on my toes. From its strange title to its jarring opening, it kept me off balance in all the ways good horror should. Right off the bat you can feel the intriguing mix […]
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The latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Amazon, House of Spoils, explores the high stress restaurant environment with a witchy twist. Writer/Directors Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy (Blow the Man Down) deliver a culinary visual feast when it comes to the food and the inner workings of the kitchen, one that happens to be a […]
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Erotic thrillers are a bit of a lost art, enjoying a Golden Age in the ’80s before tapering off in the mid-’90s around the time the genre was parodied in 1993’s Fatal Instinct. By the 2000s, notable entries in the the genre had all but disappeared thanks to its success on the direct-to-video market and […]
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Writer/Director Stuart Ortiz, one half of the filmmaking duo known as The Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial), is no stranger to blurring fact and fiction. The filmmaker used a reality TV show to send a film crew to their doom in the 2011 found footage gem Grave Encounters. Ortiz’s latest, Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, […]
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Adult Swim’s highly anticipated Junji Ito adaptation is animated cosmic and body horror of the highest degree that’s guaranteed to disturb seasoned genre fans. “Become one with me and the spiral.” Junji Ito has become one of the manga industry’s most prolific body horror storytellers and Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror is definitely regarded as one […]
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