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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 crafting challengi...
Quicksand is a Ruthlessly Efficient Single-Location Thriller [Review]
When we were kids, quicksand seemed like an actual problem we’d have to contend with as adults and, in a way, it’s kind of disappointing that it isn’t. The quicksand featured in Quicksand, a slick, hi...
‘Brooklyn 45’ is Strongest in Its Quietest Moments [Review]
Sometimes, all you need for a film to work is to put a group of great actors in a room together and let them do their thing. Such is the case with Brooklyn 45, the latest feature from writer-director ...
‘The Unheard’ is an Overstuffed but Atmospheric Chiller from Shudder [Review]
With his sophomore feature The Unheard, filmmaker Jeffery A. Brown cements himself as a promising directorial voice in the indie horror world. The contemplative horror follows a young deaf woman named...
In Attachment, Love Makes a Demon of Us All [Review]
There’s a lot to love in writer/director Gabriel Biers Gislason’s feature film debut, the queer romantic horror Attachment. That’s both a general critical assessment and a summation of the movie’s int...
Aaron B. Koontz Is Confident Horror Fans Will Appreciate Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge [Interview]
Nobody expected Scare Package to be as much of a hit as it was – not least co-creator Aaron B. Koontz who, alongside collaborator Cameron Burns, re-energized the horror anthology in a time when many o...
‘A Wounded Fawn’ is An Invigorating Blend of Greek Mythology and Bloody Female Revenge [Review]
With a title like A Wounded Fawn, ‘70-style grainy cinematography and even credits stylized to look like fancy sloping script, you might be forgiven for thinking Travis Stevens’s latest is an impenetr...
The Reef: Stalked is Surprisingly Effective Sharksploitation [Review]
The Reef: Stalked – ostensibly an incredibly late sequel to 2010’s The Reef, but not really – has the wildest opening of any sharksploitation movie, maybe ever. I don’t say that lightly; it’s truly in...
Panu Aaltio Discusses the Score for Shudder’s ‘The Twin’
There are a lot of new horror films for audiences to pick from at the moment: IFC Midnight’s Watcher, A24’s Men, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, and Shudder’s A Banquet being a few of them. A...
