75%
Haunted houses, nightmare imagery, and ghostly gypsies are on full display in Vincent Grashaw’s eerie slow-burn What Josiah Saw. Divided...
75%
67.5%
If you have a dysfunctional family, Hatching (Pahanhautoja) is going to feel like a breath if fresh air. You and...
77.5%
A unique achievement of crowdfunded filmmaking, The Unthinkable is an indie disaster movie with the feel of a big budget Hollywood production. But the Swedish film has a character-driven story and surprisingly slow burn pace that speaks to its Scandinavian sensibilities. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it...
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
I’m no stranger to late-night parties at a packed Brooklyn dive bar. But I have to admit, the afterparty on...
Anything for Jackson is one of those films that calmly takes the tried and true exorcism and possession sub-genres and reinvents them in the most terrifyingly beautiful way. Equally saturated in love and grief as it is satanic rituals and ghosts, the film balances horror and heart with ease. Directed...
It’s not everyday that a debut filmmaker crafts a story so well that they are able to pull it off...
82.5%
Hear me out: every musical genre has a vampire film to match it. Bela Lugosi’s OG Dracula pairs with something...
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...
83.75%
The house may be a home, but when it’s a Blumhouse home there is more to the structure than four...
87%
Writer-director Jason DeVan’s Along Came the Devil, was released only last year, hitting the horror community with its slow-drip pacing,...
Being a family can be hard. Think of your family; your loving parents or the fights you had with your siblings growing up. Everyone’s family has their quirks and dysfunction. Except now imagine that your mom is a robot, you share the same birthday with six adoptive siblings, and you...
