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DEADSTREAM MOVIE REVIEW The found footage genre is a rare treat when it’s done well. A lot of times, like any movie, there’s an overuse of tropes and easy to use plot enhancers, and sometimes creating drama when there is none. Not so with today’s film, Deadstream. Co-Written, Co-Directed, and Starring Joseph Winter, Deadstream follows […]

SALOUM MOVIE REVIEW Coming straight outta West Africa, Saloum starts with a coup d’etat, a drug lord, and 3 mercenaries tasked with with transporting said drug lord back to safety. By the 2nd act, shit flips on its head. Written and directed by Jean Luc Herbulot, Saloum is a horror/thriller that never relents. What should […]

SO VAM MOVIE REVIEW When a Shudder movie starts with a trigger warning, you know you’re in for… an indie LGBTQ+ drama with vampires? Kurt (Xai) can’t wait to run away and become a famous drag performer. But, he’s stuck in some part of Adelaide, South Australia (which, admittedly, has a checkered past regarding LGBTQ+ […]

GLORIOUS MOVIE REVIEW *Cue 90’s sitcom theme…* This is Wes seems like a really nice guy, his girlfriend left him, now he’s wondering why. Left empty and hurting, he’s starting to cry. He buries his demons with a bottle of rye, passes out at a rest stop, just letting it lie. He wakes up hungover, […]

ALLEGORIA MOVIE REVIEW Art. What is art? What is art at its very core essence? Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination. It is the power of creation, and, in turn, is one of the few ways that we, as mere mortals, hold the power of the gods. But what happens when the […]

THE REEF: STALKED MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Andrew Traucki returns to the water with somewhat of a successor sequel to his 2010 film The Reef with The Reef: Stalked. Now streaming on Shudder, this new shark horror film is the Jaws-light summer thriller to once again re-ignite your fear to get back in the water. After […]

MOLOCH MOVIE REVIEW Ah, Holland, the land of tulips, higher scores in all measures of quality of life than the U.S. and… generational curses? Betriek (Sallie Harmsen), a widowed mother, who lives in a village near the edge of a peat bog, is surprised one night to discover an intruder in the home she shares […]

THIS IS GWAR MOVIE REVIEW Good evening and salutations Earth Humans, it is I, Chadderus Urungus, here to tell you about an evil, grotesque, heavy metal band called GWAR. Spawning from the sick minds of Dave Brockie (Lead Singer) and Hunter Jackson (Filmmaker), GWAR has been decapitating heads and squirting blood in audiences faces for […]

THE LONG NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW A lot of things can ruin a romantic couple’s getaway weekend: Anxiety from the deep seclusion, personal injury through your own awkward clumsiness, or having the same old fight with your guy or gal. The worst though would have to be a cult gathering in the front lawn in the […]

REVEALER MOVIE REVIEW It’s going to be a Hell of a day for peep show exotic dancer Angie (Caito Aase) and it begins with having to get past a scrum of religious protestors outside her job. The door to her booth sticks, the clients are the same old creeps, the boss doesn’t give her the […]

VIRUS 32 MOVIE REVIEW You can lead a zombie to water but you can’t make him swim. Also, you can lead a promising director to a rage zombie movie but you can’t…wait, maybe you CAN still make a good zombie movie. A deft hand and great use of tension and moody lighting are the keys […]

NIGHT’S END MOVIE REVIEW You ever get that feeling you’re being watched? Not because you run a daily vlog about the supernatural, but because you have an axe wielding specter in your apartment! If you answered “yes” to the question, then welcome to Night’s End, directed by Jennifer Reeder. The story follows Ken; a divorced, […]

THE CELLAR MOVIE REVIEW Ancient mansions in Ireland I suspect hold all kind of secrets as a general rule. That being said, usually you can’t just completely disappear in them and get caught in an alternate hell dimension. But Keira’s teen daughter Ellie manages it early on in this new horror film The Cellar. Elisha […]

THE BUNKER GAME MOVIE REVIEW If you’re not in the know, LARPing is Live Action Role Playing. If you’ve ever seen Role Models, starring Paul Rudd, or Marvel’s Hawkeye series, you’ve seen a fantasy scenario of a LARP. People dress up in costumes and play their characters, affect voices, don weapons, and wear detailed costumes […]

THE SEED MOVIE REVIEW Welcome back to The Screener Squad, where today, Matt, Lewayne, Trevor, and Chad take a much-needed break to a secluded mansion in the desert. Today they review The Seed, written and directed by Sam Walker. The film follows three friends and social media influencers (Deidre, Heather, and Charlotte) on a vacation, […]

ALL THE MOONS MOVIE REVIEW The new horror film All The Moons presents a character who as a child gains immortal life and a terrible case of buyer’s remorse. Added to Shudder’s lineup of award-winning festival films, All The Moons features breathtaking cinematography and a take on the idea of an eternal existence that comments […]

SLAPFACE MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says love like slapping someone in the face as hard as you can, right? I mean it’s not like it’s a sign of generational violence, or likely to provoke a shadowy witch(?) to murder a bunch of people, or anything, is it? The Screener Squad examines those very relationship dynamics in […]

THE LAST THING MARY SAW MOVIE REVIEW In the new Shudder title written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti, The Last Thing Mary Saw, we follow Mary (Stefanie Scott). In 1843 she is being investigated for the mysterious death of her family matriarch after Mary’s own family had attempted to bring an end to her romance […]

THE RUNNER MOVIE REVIEW Boy Harsher is an American electronic music duo combining the vocals of Jae Matthews and producing savvy of Augustus Muller. They call themselves Dark Wave and consider themselves founders of Minimal Synth. “The Runner (Original Soundtrack)” is the fifth release from the band and is not a traditional album. It’s the […]

SEE FOR ME MOVIE REVIEW See For Me, written by Adam Yorke/Tommy Gushue, and directed by Randall Okita, is a story about Sophie. She’s a former athlete whose dreams were crushed by a medical condition, causing her permanent blindness. She makes money by doing odd jobs for rich people, and currently finds herself cat-sitting in […]

THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST MOVIE REVIEW Directed/Co-Written by Dasha Nekrasova (“Red Scare”), “The Scary of Sixty-First” is a horror mystery that finds two friends, Addie (Betsey Brown) and Noelle (Madeline Quinn), apartment hunting in New York City. They find a beautiful place but there’s something about it that seems a bit off. Eventually, with the […]

DEATH VALLEY MOVIE REVIEW A squad of mercenaries sent in to extract a scientist from a secured bunker/lab, while fighting off opposing forces, a horrific creature, and infected humans, unravels a twisty conspiracy involving weaponized science, and maybe something supernatural. On which system did you play this video game? Trick question… it’s not a game. […]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR MOVIE REVIEW Eva is a paraplegic ex-dancer that is gifted an advent calendar from her bestie who scored it from a weird shop in Munich on a lark. (Don’t get objects from weird shops while on vacation, just don’t do it!) Unbeknownst to them, this calendar will make them rue the day […]

HORROR NOIRE MOVIE REVIEW You may not know this (heavy sarcasm)… but America has a messy history when it comes to giving minorities “equitable treatment,” and that’s stating the facts mildly. “Horror Noire” (based on a book which inspired a documentary) is an anthology of 6 short stories, from black directors and screenwriters, all revolving […]

THE MEDIUM MOVIE REVIEW From director Banjong Pisanthanakun (“Shutter”) and producer Na Hong-jin (“The Wailing”) comes “The Medium”, a found footage horror movie about a documentary film crew following a shaman in the Isan region of Thailand. The shaman Nim is the latest woman in her family to be chosen as the medium for a […]