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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 […]

V/H/S 94 MOVIE REVIEW The popular ‘found footage’ anthology series returns with four new horror shorts (plus a wraparound segment, of course) directed by some leading voices in modern horror and some up and comers. We get storm sewer dwelling rat men that are MUCH more nightmarish then you’re probably imagining, a lone woman working […]

MARTYRS LANE MOVIE REVIEW If you have a yung’un comin’ of age and you want to start bringing ’em into the world of spooky movies or if you’re a fan of the lightly scary but big on atmosphere gothicy ghost stories, Shudder has a new entry just for you. “Martyrs Lane” follows a ten year […]

KANDISHA MOVIE REVIEW From director/writer team Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (the ones who brought you the truly disturbing 2007 horror classic “Inside”) comes this new tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory ways the objects of their venom. But this is no ordinary tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory […]

THE CALL MOVIE REVIEW In a small town somewhere in the 80s, four teens torment an elderly woman at night, throwing rocks through her windows. Edith Cranston (Lin Shaye) formerly ran a child care service out of her voluminous home but when one of her charges, the younger sister of one of the vandalizing teens, […]

VICIOUS FUN MOVIE REVIEW This was not exactly my experience of what it was like to be a huge horror nerd in the 80s. For me it was reading and re-reading Fangoria, and dreaming about being a bad-ass final lad confronting serial killing monsters. For Joel, who writes for the Fangoria stand-in mag in “Vicious […]

AN UNQUIET GRAVE MOVIE REVIEW Jamie misses his wife. A lot. A WHOLE WHOLE lot. She died about a year before the beginning of the film in a tragic car accident. She also left behind a twin sister, Ava, who also mourns her loss, albeit, maybe not to the same level of wackadoodle as Jamie. […]

SUPERDEEP MOVIE REVIEW It’s the early 80s and the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A female Russian scientist with a history of ethically dubious methods is coerced by the Soviet military into visiting a remote facility to study a mysterious contagion, which the military naturally wants to weaponize. No, we’re not talking […]

CAVEAT MOVIE REVIEW From first time feature director/writer Damian McCarthy comes this creepy and unsettling tale of mental illness, murder, labyrinthine decaying buildings, and the most evil looking rabbit in history. Jonathan French plays Issac, a man who is hired to keep watch over a young mentally ill woman whose father had recently died and […]

SKULL: THE MASK MOVIE REVIEW In this Brazilian mega-gore fest, a cursed mask is being sought by a rich German working for a Chinese conglomerate (?), and a priest and guerilla fighter who alternately crave and fear it’s rumored powers. The mask itself has its own thoughts on the matter as it’s not very long […]

CREEPSHOW SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Quick, under the blankets! The ghoul is back with the second season of “Creepshow” on Shudder and the Screener Squad is here with all the gory details. The beloved franchise that was built on camp, comedy and all things that go bump in the night is back with more famous/infamous […]

THE RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW The director of “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent” (and also the execrable recent “Hellboy”) along with his fiance, the #metoo current toppler of old powerful hollywood moguls, Charlotte Kirk, bring you this story of witchcraft. Kirk plays a woman who after her husband dies of the plague, is accused by a […]

FRIED BARRY MOVIE REVIEW Barry’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he gets abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, they return him…Now, he’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole piloted by one of the aliens, who steers Barry through the seediest sides of Cape Town on a series of drug-fueled, […]

DEADHOUSE DARK SERIES REVIEW This collection of six short films are gathered together under a single banner, telling stories at least tangentially related (sometimes) to modern technology and sorta at points lap each other. Ok, so lukewarm intro, I know, and I’m the first to admit that the short film horror format rarely works for […]

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL REVIEW Shudder exclusive “The Boys from County Hell” is a horror-comedy with a uniquely Irish twist on the vampire genre. Six Mile Hill is a remote village whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker once spent the night there while researching vampires for his classic novel, Dracula. According to […]

THE BANISHING MOVIE REVIEW Based extremely loosely on the hauntings at Borley Rectory, often referred to as ‘the most haunted house in England”, this Shudder original follows Marianne, a ‘fallen’ woman who, along with her young child she had out of wedlock, was ‘saved’ by her new husband, the Reverend Linus. Assigned the palatial MORLEY […]

THE POWER MOVIE REVIEW While at first glance, this horror film’s generic sounding title elicits a bit of a shrug, it’s considerably more insidious and clever than that: The Power has multiple meanings in this 1970’s in England during electricity blackouts, new nurse’s first night in a crumbling and very haunted hospital movie. Just the […]

VIOLATION MOVIE REVIEW Miriam is not doing well. Hardly surprising given that she has lost the feeling of connection she once had with her sister, her marriage is fading, and her sister’s husband is getting closer to her than she wants. What’s a girl to do but perform an extended all-but-movie-length murder and body disposal? […]

SLAXX MOVIE REVIEW Libby (Romane Denis) just got her dream job at her favorite trendy mall store just in time for the special event lock-down release party for their new clothing line of self-adjusting jeans. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare when the titular “Slaxx” begin murdering the staff. So, it’s up to Libby and […]

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES – SEASON 2 REVIEW We’re back with the second installment of Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy- A Discovery of Witches. Hop in the Magical Time Machine to 1590s Elizabethan England, where our heroes and unlikely couple (a vampire and a witch) Matthew and Diana, who are doing a bit of time […]

STAY OUT OF THE F***KING ATTIC MOVIE REVIEW Working for a moving company is not an easy job. Especially when you’ve taken a job at a creepy old house with a creepy old owner, who pays triple for getting the whole thing done by daybreak. Throwing a bit of a wrench into the work is […]