Jonathan Dehaan, Author at Nightmare on Film Street

85%

SCORE

SCARED SHITLESS Review: A Goofy, Gory Playground of Practical Effects and Toilet Humor #FantasiaFest

Vivieno Caldinelli’s gut-busting Scared Shitless is a horror comedy with a giant monster and a lot of toilet humor. Like, actual toilet...

75%

SCORE

Reviews

WITCHBOARD (2024) Review: DREAM WARRIORS Director Chuck Russell Crafts A New Coven From A Cult Classic #FantasiaFest

My Witchboard’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble. Hey la, hey la, my Witchboard’s back! The board is back...

76%

SCORE

Reviews

THE SOUL EATER Review: The Cops Are No Match For a Boogeyman in This Grim French Thriller #FantasiaFest

Modern day Horror Masters Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury are back at it again with another chilling feature, here to ruin your day and make your skin crawl. Entitled, The Soul Eater, this new venture from France’s most frightening duo investigates the disappearance of a several children and a small forest...

69%

SCORE

Reviews

KRYPTIC Review: Cryptids Get Ca-razy in This Psychedelic Gross-Out Mind-Scrambler #FantasiaFest

It’s important to remember that the cryptid at the center of Kryptic is NOT Bigfoot. It may look like bigfoot,...

90%

SCORE

Reviews

CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING Review: A Brilliantly Stupid Slapstick Slasher Musical #FantasiaFest

Described as “Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Les Miserables” Chainsaws Were Singing is a truly insane movie for absolutely...

60%

SCORE

TheBeastWithin 01 WellGoUSA Kit Harington

Reviews

THE BEAST WITHIN Review: Gothic Thriller Uses Werewolves As A Metaphor To Explore The Cycle of Abuse #FantasiaFest

Game of Thrones‘ Kitt Harrington stars as a beast of a man in the new werewolf thriller The Beast Within, a film as gloomy and dimly lit as a Gothic Horror. In fact, it’s even set on a rural English Estate. Sadly, as a fan of werewolf movies it’s my grave...

82%

SCORE

Reviews

VULCANIZADORA Review: Writer/Director Joel Potrykus is Here To Make You Think About Death And Get Sad And Stuff #FantasiaFest

The older you get, the more you realize that the possibilities of your life going horribly wrong greatly outweigh the...

61%

SCORE

Reviews

THE A-FRAME Review: A Slow-Paced Indie Sci-Fi Thriller For Fans of THE FLY #FantasiaFest

In a desperate attempt to find a life-saving cure, terminally ill cancer patients turn to a mad scientist for help...

79%

SCORE

Bookworm (2024) Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher Scared

Reviews

BOOKWORM Review: Ant Timpson Applies His Obsession With The Strange & Unusual To A Family Friendly Adventure Story #FantasiaFest

New Zealand’s own madman Ant Timpson returns to open the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival with his sophomore feature Bookworm, a story designed to warm your heart, break down your defenses, and make you believe in the power of magic. It’s a much more family friendly feature than I would have...

90%

SCORE

ODDITY - Caroline Menton Looks Into the Mouth of a creepy life-sized wooden Mannequin

Reviews

ODDITY Review: A Haunting Murder Mystery with a Paranormal Punch (and A Creepy Mannequin Too!)

Back in 2020 Damian McCarthy gave the indie horror world goosebumps with his debut feature Caveat, a creeping Irish horror...

Horror News

10 Horror Movies We’re Dying To See At Fantasia 2024, Including WITCHBOARD From The Director of NOES 3: DREAM WARRIORS

The 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival descends on Montreal July 18 for 3 weeks of wild, and wondrous cinema. Included...

71%

SCORE

Maxxxine (2024) Mia Goth as Maxine Minx in The Club

Reviews

[Review] Ti West’s Neon-Soaked MAXXXINE Welcomes You To A Gore-Filled Pleasuredome

Ti West’s time-jumping trilogy of Texas-fried serial killer shenanigans concludes with 2024’s Maxxxine. Leaving behind the 1970s porn shoots and 1930s stag loops for 1980s peep shows, Maxxxine is still firmly planted in West’s ADULTS ONLY world of bodies and body parts. It’s as gory as the two films that came before it...

[Podcast] Crypt Picks: CHOPPING MALL (1986)

[Podcast] Crypt Picks: THE VVITCH (2016)

[Podcast] Crypt Picks: THE EXORCIST (1973)

GET AWAY Review: Nick Frost and The Fam Go On A Little Vacay of Horrors

HEAVIER TRIP Review: Finish Heavy Metal Comedy Returns For A Hysterical Encore Performance

HERETIC Review: A Mostly Underbaked Thriller That Crumbles Like Blueberry Pie

15 Christmas Horror Movies to Sleigh the Holiday Season

Ballots and Bloodshed: Binge these 10 Election Horror Movies and Political Thrillers

10 Must-Watch Halloween Horror Movies Actually Set on Halloween

SCARED SHITLESS Review: A Goofy, Gory Playground of Practical Effects and Toilet Humor #FantasiaFest

WITCHBOARD (2024) Review: DREAM WARRIORS Director Chuck Russell Crafts A New Coven From A Cult Classic #FantasiaFest

THE SOUL EATER Review: The Cops Are No Match For a Boogeyman in This Grim French Thriller #FantasiaFest

KRYPTIC Review: Cryptids Get Ca-razy in This Psychedelic Gross-Out Mind-Scrambler #FantasiaFest

CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING Review: A Brilliantly Stupid Slapstick Slasher Musical #FantasiaFest

THE BEAST WITHIN Review: Gothic Thriller Uses Werewolves As A Metaphor To Explore The Cycle of Abuse #FantasiaFest

VULCANIZADORA Review: Writer/Director Joel Potrykus is Here To Make You Think About Death And Get Sad And Stuff #FantasiaFest

THE A-FRAME Review: A Slow-Paced Indie Sci-Fi Thriller For Fans of THE FLY #FantasiaFest

BOOKWORM Review: Ant Timpson Applies His Obsession With The Strange & Unusual To A Family Friendly Adventure Story #FantasiaFest

ODDITY Review: A Haunting Murder Mystery with a Paranormal Punch (and A Creepy Mannequin Too!)

10 Horror Movies We’re Dying To See At Fantasia 2024, Including WITCHBOARD From The Director of NOES 3: DREAM WARRIORS

[Review] Ti West’s Neon-Soaked MAXXXINE Welcomes You To A Gore-Filled Pleasuredome

15 Christmas Horror Movies to Sleigh the Holiday Season

Let’s Get Folked Up! 25 Essential Folk Horror Movies That’ll Cast a Spell on You

The 20 Most Disturbing Body Horror Films Ever Made

15 Christmas Horror Movies to Sleigh the Holiday Season

Let’s Get Folked Up! 25 Essential Folk Horror Movies That’ll Cast a Spell on You

The 20 Most Disturbing Body Horror Films Ever Made