Hannah Bergholm’s Finnish horror Hatching (Pahanhautoja) hits select theatres this weekend, after a successful run on 2022’s festival circuit. Hatching was one of my personal favorites at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where the film celebrated its world premiere. Hatching also boasts a 90% rating on rotten tomatoes despite being a vehicle for...
Mental illness is a monster in Addison Heimann’s supernatural thriller Hypochondriac. The debut feature from the director follows a young adult as he comes to terms with the long-lasting damage of his mother’s bipolar disorder while also navigating the terrifying reality that he too may be suffering from an undiagnosed...
Found footage is an acquired taste among horror fans. Some of us love it (meeee), and some of us absolutely detest it. The latter camp (even though they are utterly incorrect), often complains of low-level scares, not enough escalation with its horror elements, and being too stingy with its monsters....
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), the new legacy sequel on the block, brings back the original players of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as well as a new group of whippersnappers, ripe for the picking off. Directed by David Blue Garcia (cinematographer of Blood Fest), from a screenplay by Chris Thomas...