Tag: horror
ENYS MEN Review: The Primary Haunting of a Lonely Existence
While British folk horror has people frightened with visions of isolated Scottish islands, forests that run down its spine, to me, Cornwall has always held particular creepy fascination. Maybe it's that this lonely peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic feels...
SXSW 2023 Review: EVIL DEAD RISE, A Gloriously Blood Soaked New Direction For An Old Fave
Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise confidently tackles the beloved franchise with new vigor and violence, opening up a world of possibilities for one of horror’s most cherished franchises. Much like Raimi’s third entry in the original series, Army of Darkness,...
Overlook 2023: Three More Titles Added! THE DEAD ZONE, IT LIVES INSIDE And It's a Secret!
With just over two weeks to go before this year's edition of the Overlook Film Festival three more titles have been added to the program. We can tell you what two of them are: a 40th anniversary screening of...
SXSW 2023 Review: THE WRATH OF BECKY, Hell Hath No Fury Like This Teenage Girl's Scorn
Becky is back, and this time it’s… pretty much the same as last time. Three years ago, the world witnessed one of the craziest heel turns in recent history, funny guy Kevin James (The King of Queens, Paul Blart: Mall...
SOUND OF SILENCE Review: Proper Scary Horror Flick Thwarted by Key Concerns
Emma returns to Italy after an incident in her family home leaves her parents badly injured. Alone in the house Emma discovers a haunted radio and makes contact with the evil that is haunting it. Now she has to uncover...
SCREAM VI Review: Meta-Slasher-Whodunit Offers Thrills, Chills, and Kills in Equal Measure
After a decade-long hiatus due to several factors, including lagging audience interest, the collapse of rights-holder The Weinstein Company, and a transfer of those rights to Spyglass Entertainment (among other factors), the Scream series, once a trilogy, now a franchise...
SCREAM VI: It's Pull Quotes And Horror Action in Final Trailer
The next chapter in the rejuvinated slasher series, Scream VI, opens this Friday! The final trailer has just dropped. Check it out down below and look for a review from our own Mel later this week. In the next...
CALVAIRE Review: Love Born in Isolation Twists into Cruelty
Isolation isn't just about physical location; it can be cultural, social, and psychological. It can come as much from class, or strange arbitrary social constructs, as well as those roles set by a patriarchal society whose rules are so convoluted...
CONSECRATION Review: Effective, If Familiar, Old-School Christian-Themed Horror
In Christian mythology, the image or representation of a serpent wrapped around a cross generally signifies the triumph of good over evil (i.e., Jesus Christ defeating Lucifer/Devil). Another, looser interpretation would suggest that a serpent coiled around a cross represents...
SPOONFUL OF SUGAR: New Poster And Trailer Drop Ahead of Shudder Launch in March
A disturbed babysitter experiences a sexual awakening while using LSD to alternatively treat a seemingly "sick" child from a family with dark secrets of their own.
THE CURSE OF ROSALIE: Coming to Icon Horror Channel, Online And DVD in The UK This Spring
When a man with a dark secret sees his daughter threatened with eternal damnation, he seeks help from an unpopular Native American seer.
CALVAIRE Trailer: Fabrice du Welz's 2004 Debut Gets a HD Remaster From Yellow Veil Pictures
Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants. This week our friends at Yellow Veil Pictures revealed the trailer for...
WAKING KARMA Review: Tepid Attempts to Thrill in an Ultimately Unengaging Thriller
On Karma’s seventeenth birthday her mom, Sunny, discovers that the father of her child, a dangerous and murderous cult leader named Paul, is coming to collect his daughter for a rite of passage ritual. Mother and daughter flee to the...
THE BOOGEYMAN Trailer: It's The Thing That Comes For Your Kids
Host director Rob Savage has cashed in his street cred from his 2020 horror hit and got himself a big studio gig, directing an adaptation of a short story by Stephen King. Not to shabby. The Boogeyman opens June...
Sundance 2023 Review: INFINITY POOL, Brutal, Bloody, Effective Satire
Watching your own execution can change you, sometimes irrevocably. Being forced to watch said execution after paying for the one-time creation of a body double (clone) to serve as your surrogate can cause a debilitating existential crisis with apparently no...
SCREAM VI Trailer: Another Familiar Face Returns in Sixth Chapter
Jeez Lousie, that's a hell of an opening, isn't it? Here is the new trailer for Scream VI, coming to theaters on March 10th! Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter....
SWALLOWED: Watch The Trailer For Carter Smith's Queer Body Horror Flick, Out in February
After a drug run goes bad, two friends must survive a nightmarish ordeal of drugs, bugs and horrific intimacy in this backwoods body-horror thriller.
VAMPUS HORROR TALES: Spanish Ode to Classic Style Horror Anthology Coming to Digital And On Demand in February
A sinister gravedigger plays host to four horror stories, each directed by a different first time filmmaker.
SLASHER: RIPPER: Eric McCormack Stars Fifth Season, Premieres in Canada on Hollywood Suite This April
Hollywood Suite endevours to be Canada's one stop chop for horror content in the country. Yesterday they announced they will be the exclusive home for Slasher: Ripper, the fifth season of the popular Slasher series. Canadian actor Eric McCormack...
YELLOWJACKETS Season 2 Teaser: A Little More Complicated than Most
Anyone from a northern climate knows the dangers of winter, how you can die simply from being caught outside. That's one of the first things that drew me, and likely many viewers, to a show like Yellowjackets. We know what...
