Contemporary Horror
Perpetrator is a Rallying Cry to be a Total Monster [Review]
We can’t all be nice girls and, as Jennifer Reeder’s latest feminist-horror Perpetrator asserts, we may not want to be either. Over the years, Reeder has cultivated a reputation for craf...
Sympathy for the Devil Will Make You Carsick [Review]
Even a bad Nic Cage movie is still a good Nic Cage movie. Such is the case with Sympathy for the Devil, a completely useless, plodding non-entity of a film masquerading as a thriller in which the prem...
10 Years Later, ‘Hatchet 3’ Remains One of the Most Entertaining Horror Threequels
For Hatchet 3, series creator Adam Green handed the directing reins over to his camera operator from the previous two movies, BJ McDonnell, while retaining the sole screenwriting credit. It was a smar...
Killer Kites is So Much Better Than It Has Any Right to Be [Review]
With a title like Killer Kites, you know exactly what you’re in for–especially if you’ve seen the delightfully unhinged trailer. This is the kind of wacky, no-holds-barred, zero-b...
The Wrath of Becky is a Brutally Incisive Sequel [Review]
Becky, released in 2020, was a surprisingly gnarly little thriller about a young girl whose home is besieged by neo-Nazis and, rather than just succumbing to them, she fights back with everything she&...
Ten More of the Most Chilling Settings in Horror
One of the most obvious parts of the film-going experience is the presentation of images given to the audience. Many components contribute to the scare factor in a horror film. Elements like sound, ac...
Sick of Myself is a Scathing Portrait of Millennial Malaise [Review]
Sick of Myself, aka Sik Pike, the sophomore effort from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, takes a sledgehammer to the so-called attention economy. Rather than dealing with an obsessively on...
M3GAN Doesn’t Go Nearly As Hard As You’re Expecting [Review]
Following hot on the heels of 5-Cream is M3GAN, the latest bizarro offering from Malignant and Hell Fest co-writer Akela Cooper. Unlike those movies, however, this sci-fi shocker is rated PG-13 (15A i...
It’s Tough to Resist the Gleeful Madness of ‘The Murder Podcast’ [Review]
True crime is all the rage right now, from “My Favorite Murder” to Only Murders in the Building, so it makes complete sense that intrepid podcasters and lifelong best buds Chad (Andrew M...