The Fear Review

What happens when you film a killer-clown horror movie inside a real, working adventure park? In this special interview, William sits down with Charlie Shaw's Revenge writer and director John Langridge and producer Renato Pires to discuss how the film came together, from its original killer-clown concept to the challenges of shooting at Knockhatch Adventure Park. They talk about creating a clown t...

Clayface takes one of Batman's villains and turns him into a full-on body horror movie, and Amy was not looking forward to this one. The trailers were already enough to gross her out, but the actual movie takes things much further. In fact, Amy spent so much time looking away from the screen that she started watching William's face to figure out when it was safe to look again. Meanwhile, William w...

A crime investigation, a supernatural mystery, and some practical effects that Amy could barely watch. The Cycle has a lot going on, but this is one movie we're not going to spoil. Deborah Ann Woll stars in this Shudder horror film about a forensic investigator whose latest case involves her estranged father. What starts as a mystery surrounding his death takes some unexpected turns, and we'd rath...

Devour (2026) has vampires, a werewolf, a heavy-metal band, and more monsters than we know what to do with. It sounded like exactly the kind of horror movie William would love. Amy was on board for the vampires. But would all those monsters actually add up to a good movie? In this episode of The Fear Review, we're talking about the practical creature effects that had us excited, the movie's use of...

The Caged (2026) made its world premiere at Screamfest, and this haunted house horror movie caught us off guard. A family moves into a home with a dark history, and before long, they're dealing with ghosts, possession, witchcraft, and scares that just don't let up. Amy kept asking for the volume to be turned down because the noises were scaring her so badly. William was surprised by just how much...

Serena is an AI thriller that unfolds almost entirely on a computer screen. So how do you keep a movie like that interesting? For our Screamfest 2026 review, William and Amy discuss Rob Alicea's film about a struggling musician hired to help test an advanced AI assistant. What starts as a simple job turns into something much more complicated, especially when you can't trust everything you're seein...

What happens when the actors in a horror movie don't know exactly when the scares are coming? For this Screamfest 2026 interview, William sits down with Abandoned (2026) director Joby Stephens and stars Grace Gallagher and Cameron Wight to talk about the unusual way they brought this found footage horror film to life. Joby explains how the production used redacted scripts, hidden scares, and caref...

What happens when a horror director keeps some of the scares hidden from the actors themselves? In this episode of The Fear Review, William and Amy review Abandoned (2026), director Joby Stephens' found-footage horror film that screened at Screamfest 2026. The story follows two struggling YouTubers who venture into a mysterious abandoned facility hoping to save their channel. Instead, they discove...

Other Mommy (2026) has a genuinely terrifying monster, a creepy Jessica Chastain, and some surprisingly nasty horror. So why did we leave the theater feeling disappointed? In this episode of The Fear Review, William and Amy discuss Rob Savage's adaptation of Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House. The story follows a little girl dealing with problems at home when a mysterious entity appears, p...

The Swallow takes one of the great irrational fears of anyone who grew up watching movies in the ’80s and turns it into a creature feature: what if the quicksand actually fought back? We caught Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s latest horror film after its Fantastic Fest world premiere and ahead of its Beyond Fest screening. William finds a nasty throwback to movies like The Blob, Creepshow and Th...

Bloody Tennis star Sandra Guldberg Kampp joins The Fear Review to talk about playing Sophie as the movie gets increasingly strange, brutal and downright disgusting. Sandra takes us through Sophie's gradual transformation, how she kept the character grounded while everything around her went completely off the rails, and the physical preparation that went into the role. We also talk about her two mo...

Bloody Tennis director Nikias Chryssos joins The Fear Review to talk about building the film's escalating brutality, unnerving body horror and the ambition that drives its players past any reasonable limit. We get into why some of the movie's smallest injuries can be more uncomfortable than its biggest acts of violence, how heightened body sounds and medical examinations were used to keep us const...

Kung Fu Deadly mixes martial arts, Jiangshi, slapstick comedy and a surprising amount of heart and somehow all of it works. We caught the film as part of our Fantastic Fest 2026 coverage, and this ended up being way more fun than either of us expected. Amy got serious The Goonies and Little Monsters vibes, while William loved how the movie works physical comedy directly into its kung-fu action. We...

No Rest for the Wicked director Kasper Kalle joins The Fear Review to talk about bringing Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ 1884 short story Manor to the screen, filming in the Faroe Islands, and adapting a very different kind of vampire story that predates Dracula. Kalle discusses why the Faroe Islands needed to feel like more than a beautiful backdrop, casting first-time film actor Egor Venned as Baldur op...

The Squirrel writer/director Markus Lehmusruusu and star Mimosa Willamo join The Fear Review following the film’s Fantastic Fest international premiere. Markus explains why the most frightening thing about the movie’s future isn’t an evil government or some obvious villain, it’s that people were free to choose, and gradually chose comfort, safety and convenience for themselves. Mimosa talks about...

The Squirrel drops us into a future where everything is clean, safe and controlled. People have traded intimacy, freedom and a little bit of chaos for comfort and then Pasi discovers what may be the last living squirrel on Earth. We caught The Squirrel as part of our Fantastic Fest 2026 coverage, and this strange Finnish sci-fi movie completely won both of us over. William and Amy talk about its d...

Amy said months ago that she was not going to see another Zach Cregger movie in a theater. Then the first 30 minutes of Resident Evil scared her enough to change her mind. After buying tickets in Orlando for the complete movie, we break down its sudden turn into extreme body horror, why Austin Abrams makes the chaos work, and whether this original side story actually feels like a Resident Evil gam...

Littermates writers/directors Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson join The Fear Review ahead of Fantastic Fest to talk about building a movie designed to keep audiences questioning what they can trust. Scott and Michael break down the mystery surrounding Chester, Liam and Mel essentially growing up all over again, why they deliberately refused to over-explain the world outside the cottage, and how t...

Onslaught should have been an easy win: super soldiers, buckets of blood, over-the-top action, Dan Stevens and a movie that seems determined to turn everything up to 15. So how did all that chaos somehow stop being fun? William and Amy get into the repetitive action sequences, the supposedly elite super soldiers who start feeling more like three Michael Myers, the Grindhouse style, some questionab...

Colony, the latest infected horror film from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, gave us two very different reactions. Amy went in excited but found the movie repetitive and eventually checked out. William agreed that the 122-minute runtime could have been tighter, but the evolving infected and hive-mind concept were enough to keep him invested. We discuss the grotesque infected, the characters...

Insidious: Out of the Further takes the franchise somewhere darker, and after six movies, this one actually managed to disturb both of us. Amy found this entry heavier than the previous films and there were several scenes she simply refused to watch, including one that left her genuinely nauseated. William could handle watching it, but even he admits this movie got under his skin in a way the othe...

The Lambert family survived The Further together. So why does Insidious: The Red Door begin with everything falling apart? For the final movie in our Further into the Further event, we’re talking about the return of Josh and Dalton, the fractured Lambert family, and whether turning the solution from Insidious: Chapter 2 into the problem driving this movie was a smart way to bring their story full...

Insidious: The Last Key may be the least scary entry in the franchise so far, but does trading some of those relentless scares for a stronger story actually make it worse? We’re halfway through Further into the Further, and this time William and Amy find a very different kind of Insidious movie. Elise moves firmly to the center of the story as the franchise digs into her childhood, her abilities,...

Amy thought Insidious: Chapter 3 might finally be the easy one. Instead, it scared her more than the first two. For the third movie in our Further into the Further event, we look at why Leigh Whannell’s first turn directing the franchise feels darker and meaner, why the Man Who Can’t Breathe got Amy so badly, and how Insidious somehow keeps finding new ways to scare her. We discuss: Why Chapter 3...

Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up right where the first movie left off, and Amy was apparently wrong to expect the sequel to give her a break. Sequels often soften the scares or repeat what worked the first time, but this one still hit hard enough that Amy needed a weighted blanket, shut the bedroom door, and then immediately became afraid the door was going to open by itself. William thinks she may h...