KEEPER: We've Seen Osgood Perkins's Latest And We Know The Secret Of The Cabin In The Woods
If there is one thing you can say about director Osgood Perkins, it's that you never really know what you're going to get once the lights go down and the nightmares begin to unfold. After seemingly setting a very firm...
HALLOW ROAD / VINCENT MUST DIE Halloween Double Feature Review
Both films play together, exclusively at AMC Theatres, via XYZ Films, tomorrow. Visit the official site for locations and showtimes. A tragic accident, a terrified teenage girl, a pair of panicked parents, and a long lonely road in the woods...
SHELBY OAKS Review: Twisty Folk Horror. Kind Of.
Twelve years ago, YouTuber Riley Brennan went missing. When, after a long dry spell, a seemingly related tragedy lands on the doorstep of her sister Mia, the rescue mission restarts in debutante director Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann is one...
BLACK PHONE 2 Review: A Snowbound Supernatural Slog
It's been four years since Finney (Mason Thomas) killed notorious child killer The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) and escaped from his basement dungeon. While he and his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGrew) have spent the intervening years building a new life, it...
SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE Review: Wrestling With Grief, Decidedly Dirty Arthouse
Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis, and Dominique Pinon star. Yannis Veslemes directed.
GOOD BOY Review: Sit, Human, While I Save You From Your Haunted House
Indy stars as himself. Ben Leonberg directed.
HIM Review: Marlon Wayans Tries to Convert. But HIM Punts.
Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, and Jim Jefferies star; Justin Tipping directed.
Now in Theaters: Yamashita's Rock 'N' Roll Dream LINDA LINDA LINDA Is Back In A Gorgeous 4K Restoration
As the United States begins to send its teenagers back to school for the fall term, there is no better way to celebrate adolescent ennui than with the absolute joy bomb that is Linda Linda Linda! Thankfully for all of...
THE MONKEY Review: Gonzo, Nihilistic Horror Comedy, With a Mind Of Its Own
After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid chiller to...
WEAPONS Review: BARBARIAN Director Zach Cregger Returns With Another Gory, Twisty Winner
Barbarian director, Zack Cregger, returns to cinemas this week with Weapons, another unpredictable horror rollercoaster that proves his debut feature was no fluke. The small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania wakes up one day to find that seventeen children have mysteriously...
FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES Review: Death Makes a Killer Return
Resurrecting a franchise after an extended slumber is always a risky move, even more so with a series as beloved by horror fans as Final Destination. It’s been 14 years since the last installment, and in the intervening years cult of...
DEATH OF A UNICORN Review: Moderate Your Expectations
Elliott (Paul Rudd) really needs a win. Still struggling to get his life together after his wife has died of cancer, he’s bringing his teenage standoffish daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) on a work retreat at the wildlife preserve sponsored by...
Fantasia 2025 Review: EVERY HEAVY THING, A DePalma-Flavored Cyber Thriller And Mickey Reece's Best Film Yet
Oklahoma auteur Mickey Reece is back at Fantasia 2025 with his latest work of outsider art, in the neon-tinged ‘80s-infused cyber thriller, Every Heavy Thing. Joe (Josh Fadem) lives a pretty milquetoast life in Hightown City , USA. Peddling ads...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE WELL, In A World Where Water Is Scarce, A Young Girl Is Her Family's Only Hope
In a not-too-distant future where clean water is scarce, a young woman’s journey to find a way to fix her family’s well leads her to a group of struggling survivors who would do anything to have what she has in...
Fantasia 2025 Review: HONEKO AKABANE'S BODYGUARDS, This High School Action Comedy Is A Blast
Iruki Arakuni is charged with protecting his childhood friend who doesn’t know there’s a ten-million-dollar bounty on her head in Ishikawa Jun'ichi’s manga adaptation, Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards, making its North American Premiere at Fantasia 2025 this week. Honeko Akabane (Deguchi...
Fantasia 2025 Review: CIELO, A Heartwarming Magical Realist Take on Matricide
A young girl embarks upon a treacherous odyssey to deliver her mother an everlasting peace after a life of hardship in Alberto Sciamma’s magical realist drama, Cielo. Santa (Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda) is a young indigenous girl who lives with her...
Fantasia 2025 Review: TERRESTRIAL, A Black Comedy Thriller From Director Steve Pink
Comedy directing legend Steve Pink (Accepted, Hot Tub Time Machine) takes a swing at a black comedy sci-fi thriller in Terrestrial, starring Jermaine Fowler. When college friends Maddie (Pauline Chalamet), Ryan (James Morosini), and Vic (Edy Modica) show up to...
Fantasia 2025 Review: I AM FRANKELDA, Mexico's First Stop-Motion Feature Is A Magical Treat
A confident young girl with a head full of strange and fantastical ideas partners with the prince of the realm of imagination to restore the balance between fantasy and reality in the Ambriz Brothers’ historic first feature, I Am Frankelda....
Fantasia 2025 Review: BLAZING FISTS, Takashi Miike Explores Wayward Young Boys In Battle. Again.
A pair of wayward teens stuck in a juvenile detention center find inspiration in MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura's Breaking Down competition in Miike Takashi's Blazing Fists. Ikuto (Kinoshita Danhi) and Ryoma (Yoshizawa Kaname) meet in juvenile detention after both are...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE DEVIL'S BRIDE, An Impish Demon Vies For A Mill Owner's Daughter In This Chaotic Musical
Mischievous devil Pinchiukas makes a deal with mill owner Baltaragis to help him marry his true love and ensure the success of his business in exchange for the hand of his daughter in marriage in director Arunas Zebriunas’s raucous 1974...
