If you’ve ever stared at a child’s teddy bear and thought, “I wish this thing would drag my soul into a PG-13 hellscape of mediocre jump scares,” Imaginary is technically the answer to your prayer. Unfortunately, like most cursed objects, it sounds way cooler than it actually is. Jeff Wadlow’s latest Blumhouse outing takes a … Read More “Imaginary” »
Haunted by Potential Somewhere inside Hauntology there’s a fantastic movie clawing at the coffin lid. Unfortunately, what actually staggers out is a well-meaning, queer, road-trip horror anthology that’s so in love with its own concept it forgets to be, you know, consistently good. Parker Brennon’s feature debut sells itself as a “queer horror road trip” … Read More “Hauntology (2024) Great concept, spooky vibes, and a runtime that feels like your soul got stuck buffering.” »
If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to get locked overnight inside a very long, very self-serious religious studies thesis, Grave Torture (Siksa Kubur) has you covered. It’s like someone looked at Indonesian horror’s hot streak and thought, “What if we did all the themes at once and then buried them alive?” Joko … Read More “Grave Torture (Siksa Kubur)” »
The First Omen is the kind of prequel that shows up to a long-dead franchise, flips the lights back on, and says, “So, who’s ready to be emotionally and theologically wrecked?” Against all odds, it works. And it doesn’t just work—it might be the best Omen movie since the original, which is sort of like … Read More “The First Omen” »
If you’ve ever thought, “What if Twilight had a baby with a midlife crisis and named it ‘Toxic Relationship Metaphor’?”, Drained is that baby—pale, overlong, and screaming for attention. Sean Cronin and Peter Stylianou clearly set out to make a moody, adult vampire romance about addiction, codependency, and the way love can literally bleed you … Read More “Drained” »
If you’ve ever stared at your dating apps and thought, “This experience would be better if it were 94 minutes long and also dead inside,” The Dead Thing is here to prove you wrong. Elric Kane’s feature debut has a great logline: a lonely woman falls for a mysterious barista on a blind date, he … Read More “The Dead Thing” »
If you’ve ever wanted a movie to grab you by the ears, scream directly into your brain, and then smear alien slime on your sense of logic, Cuckoo is absolutely your weird little prize hen. Tilman Singer’s second feature is the rare horror film that doesn’t just step off the rails, it builds entirely new … Read More “Cuckoo” »
If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be trapped in a 2-hour disciplinary hearing about the moral decay of society—held in a freezing Kazakh hallway lit by one flickering bulb—Cadet has you covered. Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s 2024 horror film plants itself in an elite military academy, fills it with bullying, ghosts, and Soviet … Read More “Cadet” »
If you’ve ever wished Vikram Bhatt would remake Raaz yet again but with less suspense, more moaning about “bodily desire,” and the plot logic of a daily soap on fast-forward, Bloody Ishq is here to grant that cursed wish. This is being sold as a “horror thriller set on a remote Scottish island.” What you … Read More “Bloody Ishq” »
If you’ve ever had a taxi ride so awkward you were convinced you might actually die before your stop, Black Cab is that feeling stretched into 88 minutes of tense, supernatural misery—in a good way. Bruce Goodison’s 2024 shocker takes the most mundane urban ritual—getting a cab home after a rowdy night out—and turns it … Read More “Black Cab” »