The Bloodlust

Rated R Runtime : 1hr 43min Written & Directed by Ti West Stars : Mia Goth , Kevin Bacon and Michelle Monaghan Released in theaters July 5, 2024 RT : 75% critics / 78% audience Synopsis We rejoin Maxine six years after the events of X, as she’s about to make her crossover from porn star to horror movie star. Unfortunately, her friends once again start turning up dead, throwing a wrench into he...

Director/Writer : Joel Anderson  Stars : Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe Synopsis : Who killed Alice Palmer? Just kidding...sort of... This is a Fauxdoc-style film, covering the events surrounding the death of 16-year old Alice Palmer. After going missing (we presume she drowned) during a family trip, Alice's body is eventually discovered floating in the water....

Not Rated Runtime: 1hr 34min Written & Directed by Chris Nash Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic and Cameron Love Premiered at Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2024 Released in theaters May 31, 2024 RT: 81% critics / 43% audience Synopsis When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-...

Rated PG-13 Runtime : 1hr 40min Written & Directed by Jane Schoenbrun Stars : Justice Smith , Brigette Lundy-Paine and Ian Foreman Premiered at Sundance Film Festival January 18, 2024 Released in theaters May 17, 2024 RT : 84% critics / 68% audience Synopsis  Shy teenager Owen is intrigued by a supernatural teen TV show and an older classmate named Maddy who is obsessed with the show. Whe...

Rated R Runtime : 1hr 30min Directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy Written by Darach McGarrigle Stars : Millie Brady , Pollyanna McIntosh and Akshay Kumar Premiered at Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival July 1, 2023 Limited release in theaters February 9, 2024 RT : 100% critics / 73% audience Synopsis  Test subjects for an experimental drug trial gone awry experience terrifying side effects...

Rated R Runtime : 1hr 33min Written & Directed by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes Stars : David Dastmalchian , Laura Gordon and Ian Bliss Premiered at South by Southwest March 10, 2023 Released in theaters March 22, 2024 RT : 97% critics / 81% audience Synopsis  A late-night talk show attempts to grab big ratings during sweeps week with a paranormal-themed Halloween episode, which ends...

Rated R Runtime: 1hr 59min Directed by Arkasha Stevenson Written by Arkasha Stevenson , Tim Smith and Keith Thomas   Stars: Nell Tiger Free , Ralph Ineson and Sonia Braga Released in theaters April 5, 2024 RT: 81% critics / 70% audience Synopsis  Another young novitiate from the U.S. arrives at her new home in an Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem Join us...

Rated R Runtime : 1hr 29min Directed by Michael Mohan Written by Andrew Lobel Stars : Sydney Sweeney , Álvaro Morte and Simona Tabasco Premiered at South by Southwest March 12, 2024 Released in theaters March 22, 2024 RT : 71% critics / 59% audience  Synopsis  A young novitiate arrives at her new home in a remote Italian convent and soon realizes that things are not as they seem Join us...

Rated R Runtime: 1hr 33min Directed by Robert Morgan Written by Robert Morgan and Robin King Stars: Aisling Franciosi , Stella Gonet and Tom York Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 24, 2023 Available on streaming starting March 15, 2024 RT: 89% critics / 52% audience Synopsis  An animator who works under her overbearing mother starts to come unglued when her mother has a stroke Join us nex...

Not Rated   Runtime : 1hr 38min Written & Directed by Stephen Cognetti Stars : Bridget Rose Perrotta , Destiny Leilani Brown and James Liddell Limited theatrical release October 24, 2023, premiered on Shudder October 30, 2023 RT : 87% critics / 82% audience Synopsis  Faux documentary about an internet sleuth who, along with her partner and her brother, spends five nights in the notor...

Rated PG-13  Runtime : 1hr 44min Written & Directed by Alejandro Amenábar Stars : Nicole Kidman , Fionnula Flanagan and Christopher Eccleston Premiered August 2, 2001 RT : 84% critics / 77% audience  Synopsis  A woman who lives with her photosensitive children in the countryside and waits for her husband to return from WWII becomes convinced that their house is haunted. Join us...

Rated R  Runtime: 1hr 52min Stars: Efren Ramirez , Greg Grunberg and Sonya Eddy Premiered at the Fantastic Fest September 25, 2022 Released on VOD September 14, 2023  RT: 91% critics / 45% audience Synopsis  Wraparound segment - “ The Traveler”  Directed by Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider! Tales of Halloween) The sole survivor of a massacre is interrogated by police and confounds t...

Directed by J.A. Bayona Written by J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, Nicolas Casariego (based on book by Pablo Vierci) Rated R  Runtime : 2hr 24min Stars : Enzo Vogrincic, Agustin Pardella, Matias Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi Premiered at the Venice Film Festival September 9, 2023 Released in limited theater December 23, 2023 and on Netflix January 4, 2024 RT : 91% critics / 85% audi...

Directed by Laura Moss Written by Laura Moss and Brendan J. O'Brien Rated R  Runtime : 1hr 41min Stars : Marin Ireland , Judy Reyes and A.J. Lister Premiered at Sundance January 20, 2023 Limited release August 18, 2023  RT : 96% critics / 75% audience Synopsis  A morgue technician has developed a method to reanimate the dead using embryonic tissue. When she tests it on the recently...

Directed by Kevin Greutert Written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg Rated R  Runtime : 1hr 58min Stars : Tobin Bell , Shawnee Smith and Synnøve Macody Lund Released September 29, 2023 in theaters RT : 80% critics / 89% audience   Synopsis  John Kramer returns, and he still has cancer! This time, John is swindled by a group pretending to provide a miracle cure, and he takes his r...

Directed by Eli Roth Written by Jeff Rendell Rated R  Runtime : 1hr 46min Stars : Patrick Dempsey , Gina Gershon and Ty Olsson Released November 17, 2023 in theaters RT : 84% critics / 79% audience Synopsis  One year after a Black Friday riot killed multiple people, a masked killer starts picking off those involved in gruesome ways. Join us next time when we'll review Saw X, currently av...

**Director**: Jalmari Helander **Writers**: Jalmari Helander, Juuso Helander **Stars**: Jorma Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Onni Tommila **Synopsis**: On the border of Finland and Russia, 486 meters deep within the Korvatunturi mountains, lies a long-buried secret of Christmas. After a group of excavators unearth this secret, the nearby village learns that some secrets should remain buried. With so few...

Directed by David Slade Written by Michael Gilio , based on the novel by Norman Partridge Rated R  Runtime : 1hr 36min Stars : Casey Likes , Emyri Crutchfield and Jeremy Davies Released October 13, 2023 on VOD RT : 71% critics / 48% audience Synopsis  The teenage boys in a small town compete in a macabre contest each Halloween to hunt down and devour a monster called Sawtooth Jack before...

Written & Directed by Demián Rugna Unrated   Runtime : 1hr 34min Stars : Ezequiel Rodríguez , Luis Ziembrowski and Demián Salomón Premiered at TIFF September 13, 2023 Released in limited theaters October 6, 2023 and on Shudder October 27, 2023 RT : 99% critics / 57% audience Synopsis  Two brothers in a small village discover a possessed man on their neighbor’s property who is infecti...

Written & Directed by Anna Zlokovic Rated TV-MA Runtime : 1hr 34min Stars : Hadley Robinson , Emily Hampshire and Kausar Mohammed Premiered at South by Southwest March 11, 2023 Released on Hulu October 2, 2023 RT : 52% critics / 62% audience Synopsis  A stressed-out young woman finds that her anxieties are manifesting themselves in strange ways, as a growth begins to appear on her stomach...

Not Rated Runtime : 1hr 50min Stars : Freddy Rodríguez , James Ransone and Jordan Belfi Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 22, 2023 Released on Shudder October 6, 2023 RT : 73%/71% Synopsis  Total Copy (frame story): Directed by David Bruckner No Wake (Segment 1): Directed by Mike P. Nelson God of Death (Segment 2): Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero TKNOGD (Segment 3): Directed by Natasha Ker...

Written & Directed by Jennifer Reeder Stars Kiah McKirnan , Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Lowell Not Rated Runtime : 1hr 41mins Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival February 17, 2023 Released September 1, 2023 RT: 80% critics, 32% audience Synopsis  Teenage outcast Jonny is sent to live with her strange aunt in a town where girls have been going missing. As her aunt introd...

Directed by Samuel Bodin Written by Chris Thomas Devlin Stars Lizzy Caplan , Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman Rated R Runtime : 1hr 28mins Released in the July 21, 2023 RT : 59% critics, 71% audience  Synopsis  A lonely little boy with overprotective parents is kept up at night by a tapping on his bedroom walls.  Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing Perpetrator , currently av...

Directed by Justin Kurzel Written by Shaun Grant , based on the book by Debi Marshall and Andrew McGarry Stars Lucas Pittaway and Daniel Henshall Not Rated  Runtime: 1hr 59mins Premiered at Cannes May 16, 2011 Released in the US March 2, 2012 RT: 85% critics, 66% audience Synopsis  Based on the true story of John Bunting, Australia’s most prolific serial killer, who was charged with the...

Directed by André Øvredal Written by Bragi F. Schut and Zak Olkewicz Stars Corey Hawkins , Aisling Franciosi and Javier Botet Rated R Runtime : 1hr 58mins Released August 11, 2023 RT : 49% critics, 74% audience Synopsis  Based on a single chapter, the Captain's Log, from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel "Dracula", the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to ca...