[Film Review] Kiddo (2022)
Set amongst a bleak and certainly grim landscape, Kiddo introduces viewers to a dystopian world where humans are divided into those who eat, and those who are eaten.
[Film Review] Confessions of a Necrophile Girl (2021)
Directed by controversial director Cristiano Domiziano (Vore Gore, Nightmare Symphony), Confessions of a Necrophile Girl follows a young mortuary makeup artist as she documents through a video diary her struggles to fight her necrophiliac urges whilst on the job, or run the risk of getting caught.
[Film Review] Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
If your Christmas wish list includes the robots from Chopping Mall (1986) in Santa suits awash in neon and set to rock n’ roll music, you are in luck!
[Film Review] To the Moon (2021)
The complex (and often twisted) relationship between siblings has provided the tension for dozens of horror movies….
[Film Review] Celluloid Screams Film Festival: The Leech (2022)
Eric Pennycoff’s The Leech delivers on fierce satire and wry dark comedy in this (mostly) three-way Christmas pot-boiler.
[Film Review] Eating Miss Campbell (2022)
Troma films are something you either do or don’t get…
[Film Review] Celluloid Screams Film Festival: The Elderly (2022)
A surprising and effective horror on the peril of ignoring your elders.
[Film Review] Philosophy of a Knife (2008)
Historical atrocities are something that cannot be shied away from, and filmmakers have time and time again reverted to fictional depictions of true stories to enlighten audiences of the historical horrors that have happened.
[Film Review] Rave (2020)
Loud, bellowing drums are at the forefront of the opening scene while we see partygoers heading towards a mysterious abandoned factory, the primary location of Nils Alatalo’s Swedish psychedelic body horror Rave (2020).
[Film Review] Pennywise: The Story of IT (2022)
Pennywise: The Story of IT (2022) dives into the making of one of the most famous pieces of Stephen King-related media…
[Film Review] Yokai Monsters Trilogy (1968 - 1969)
To talk about the Yōkai Monsters trilogy, now available on Shudder after a great Arrow box set release last year, it’s necessary to give an idea of what yōkai actually are. However, it’s a little difficult to say as most definitions fall short in encompassing the role that they play in Japanese folklore.
[Film Review] My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)
Another beloved horror novel has been given the movie treatment this October as Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022) hit Amazon Prime. Based on the 2016 novel, which many of us bought for its beautiful ‘80s VHS-style cover, My Best Friend’s Exorcism focuses on the relationship between best friends Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) after a night at a lake house goes very wrong.
[Film Review] Hounded (2022)
Tommy Boulding’s Hounded (2022) is a fast-paced and violent appraisal of classism. Four friends make their living as thieves, stealing art from the homes of wealthy people and selling it to art dealers.
[Film Review] Mother Superior (2022)
In 1975, Sigrun, an anesthetist in training, agrees to care for the ailing, eccentric Baroness Heidenreich in her crumbling, dilapidated country pile. Alone, except for the Baroness and her equally strange man servant Otto, Sigrun begins to explore the long abandoned dusty rooms, filled with records, chemistry sets, esoteric symbols and taxidermy animals, searching for the truth about her past.
[Film Review] Brooklyn Film Festival: Old Flame (2022)
In writer and director Christopher Denham's third feature film Old Flame (2022), what initially appears to be a romantically charged meeting at a college reunion swiftly turns into an uneasy meditation on memory, truth and violence.
[Film Review] V/H/S/99 (2022)
Last year’s V/H/S/94 breathed new life into the found-footage franchise that had lain dormant since 2014’s poorly received V/H/S: Viral, becoming Shudder’s biggest premiere ever and reigniting the spark that burned in the first two V/H/S movies.
[Film Review] Brooklyn Film Festival: Repulse (2021)
After originally debuting at Prague's Febiofest in 2021, Emila Křižky's quietly disturbing film Repulse (Hrana Zlomu) had its North American debut at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in October 2022.
[Film Review] Two Witches (2022)
Witches don’t die before leaving their legacy. Two Witches, told in two separate acts that come together to weave a tale of inheritance, begins with the pregnant Sarah (Belle Adams) and her partner Simon (Ian Michaels) who are out to dinner when they receive an evil eye from a random woman at another table, the chapter’s titular Boogeywoman (Marina Parodi).
[Film Review] The Lost Boys (1987)
David and his younger brother Sam move with their mother Lucy to the seaside town of Santa Carla. Still recovering in the aftermath of divorce, Lucy settles in with her eccentric father and looks for work in the sinister, yet bustling, town known, according to local graffiti, as the murder capital of the world.
[Film Review] DeadStream (2022)
Disgraced social media personality and vlogger Shawn Ruddy attempts to face his fear of ghosts and return to his former glory by live streaming himself spending the night in an infamous haunted manor house.
