Prime Video is welcoming all fans to the wasteland this SXSW 2024 with an immersive new experience from upcoming television series “Fallout,” set to premiere on April 12, 2024. Fans can enter the post-apocalyptic world of “Fallout” and see if they have what it takes to survive in an immersive activation that’s pulling out all the […]
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The latest edition of the SXSW Film Festival (March 8-16, 2024) kicks off later this week in Austin, Texas, unleashing an expansive slate of film programming an experiences- emphasis on expansive. For the horror fan, the fest offers so much more beyond the Midnighter programming section, and this SXSW 2024 preview guide should help. The […]
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This year’s SXSW Film Festival (March 8-16, 2024), taking place in Austin, Texas, was already shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest events for horror. Today, the festival has announced even more genre titles to their film lineup, ensuring a densely packed slate of genre fare. Among the headliners, you’ll find Neon’s Immaculate, starring […]
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This year’s SXSW Film Festival (March 8-16, 2024), taking place in Austin, TX, just unveiled their lineup, and what a massive year for horror. The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and […]
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“Mommy’s with the maggots now.” Actor Alyssa Sutherland immediately grabbed our attention as Ellie, in Deadite form, when she uttered this line in the Evil Dead Rise trailer. The new entry in the beloved franchise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), arrives exclusively in theaters on April 21, 2023. Cronin’s Evil […]
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Writer/Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise relocates the terror from a cabin in the woods to a high rise Los Angeles apartment building, bringing a new style of Deadite mayhem to the franchise. Evil Dead Rise is coming exclusively to theaters on April 21, 2023, and it brought the house down during its world premiere at […]
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Up next from Australian writing-directing team Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres, Scare Campaign) is found footage horror Late Night With the Devil, with David Dastmalchian (Dune, The Suicide Squad) starring as the host of a late-night talk show that descends into a nightmare. Dastmalchian stars as Jack Delroy, the charismatic host of “Night Owls,” and the film traces the ill-fated […]
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The sequel to 2020’s home invasion action-thriller Becky, The Wrath of Becky, goes bigger and bloodier (read my review here). In the film, “Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman – a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s Evil Dead Rise review is spoiler-free. A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates as a declaration that the latest installment of this franchise will fit snugly within the world of Evil Dead while branching out into new terrain and ideas. That means a […]
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Despite the spooky séance setup in Brooklyn 45, writer/director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here, Mohawk) is less interested in exploring a literal interpretation of ghosts. Instead, the filmmaker connects the ghosts of our past as a metaphor for present-day national turmoil and paranoia. The period set chamber piece gives precedence to fraught tension among friends over […]
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A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic in the upcoming feature film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, releasing in theaters on March 31, 2023. You can read my SXSW review here. The misfit group’s quest sees them taking on a variety of monsters […]
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Writer/Director Bishal Dutta refreshingly gives a new spin on demonic possession for his feature film debut, It Lives Inside. Dutta uses a familiar framework of teen horror as an accessible introduction to underexplored mythology exacerbated by a cultural divide and adolescence. While Dutta wears his influences on his sleeves, the gnarly new demon and the complexities of its […]
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Mary Shelley’s seminal novel Frankenstein inspired countless works in the centuries since its initial publication in 1818, and most focus on the empathetic Creature’s narrative. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster instead examines the mad scientist responsible, reinterpreting the archetype with righteous fury in a contemporary setting. Its strengths lie far more in the humanity of its characters […]
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Lulu Wilson tapped into a primal ferocity for her turn as the enraged teen taking down violent home intruders in 2020’s Becky. Its follow-up, The Wrath of Becky, reveals that the time passed between films hasn’t diminished the teen’s volatile rage in the slightest. Armed with John Wick-like motivation, Becky plunges into a new vengeful quest that provokes more […]
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The early ’80s Satanic Panic phenomenon frequently spills over into horror thanks to the wave’s systematic targeting of the genre and heavy metal. Recent horror comedies or even the latest “Stranger Things” season highlight the absurdity of moral panic mania founded in baseless claims of Satanic ritual abuse. Documentary Satan Wants You chronicles one of the prominent […]
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