77.5%
You might think comedy is the genre for “weird families,” but I’d argue it’s horror. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
77.5%
63.75%
Being a teenager almost always feels like an inescapable curse, but the 17-year-old girl at the center of Thomas Robert...
55%
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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the audience, to a different world. The Princess Bride is a prime example. However, very few (if any) movies make this transition between worlds actually matter to the plot, giving characters...
The title says it all. It’s hard to write a spoiler-free review when the entire plot is in the title,...
The new Indian horror-fantasy Tumbbad is a dark and dangerous story of one man’s greed for a fallen god’s gold. Like all men...
Hands up if religious horror is your bag. I’m assuming everyone is waving their paws excitedly in the air? Good! I’m among my people, this is a safe space. Seriously though, I will watch anything with a religious undertone. Is there a sexy priest, a possessed person in need of...
In Heir of The Witch, an underprivileged seamstress, haunted by her past, seeks love and acceptance in high society but...
87.5%
Filled wall-to-wall with handmade puppets, Frank & Zed is the kind of movie you could watch with the whole family if it...
81.25%
It’s always impressive when a horror movie can pay homage to its influences without feeling repetitive. The movies that get the balance wrong are pretty quickly forgotten, but the ones that get it right, like Mike Flanagan‘s widely-praised Doctor Sleep, get added to the “instant classics” list just as fast....
75%
Scary stories told by flashlight, giggling under the covers, scary movie slumber parties – these are the moments when horror...
90%
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Journalist & Filmmaker David Farrier has a weird beat. In fact, his weird beat is: Weird People. In his 2016...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used the ‘coming-of-age’ arch to tell stories about individual journeys, love, and loss. Horror is no different, even though it seeks the extreme of the spectrum. What better example of a...
