Eva’s winter is going worse than yours. No Wi-Fi, no groceries, no husband, and now a ship full of half-frozen strangers has the nerve to crash nearby and ask for help. Thordur Palsson’s The Damned is folk horror for people who like their morality plays icy, brutal, and occasionally very funny in a “wow, that’s … Read More “The Damned (2024) – Starving, Freezing, and Ethically Compromised” »
In Chuzalongo, the Andean highlands aren’t just a backdrop; they’re an accomplice. Diego Ortuño takes a local legend about a predatory child-elf and turns it into a folk horror film that’s less about jump scares and more about how monsters thrive wherever injustice is already doing the groundwork. It’s eerie, angry, unexpectedly funny in a … Read More “Chuzalongo – Folk Horror with Teeth, History, and a Very Bad Forest Elf” »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if someone tried to remake From Dusk Till Dawn using loose couch change, spare fog machines, and a community theater cast, Bogieville is your answer. It’s a movie about a young couple on the run who stumble into a vampire-infested trailer park—and somehow, the vampires aren’t the most … Read More “Bogieville – Trailer Trash Vampires and the Death of Your Free Time” »
If you’ve ever thought, “Motherhood seems hard,” The Beldham gently replies, “Sure, and also there might be a beaked witch in the attic who wants your baby.” Angela Gulner’s debut is a tight, unnerving, darkly funny psychological horror that treats new motherhood like the haunted house it so often feels like—full of noises, shadows, and … Read More “The Beldham – Postpartum Panic in a Fixer-Upper from Hell” »
There are horror films that haunt you, movies that burrow under your skin and rearrange your sleep schedule. Bagman is not one of those films. Bagman is the movie you half-watch on a streaming service while scrolling your phone, occasionally glancing up to say, “Oh right, he’s still carrying the sack.” For a story about … Read More “Bagman (2024) – The Boogeyman Called, He Wants His Movie Back” »
The Case That Just Won’t Die Adbhut opens not with a scream, but with a ceremony. Detective Gajraj Awasthy is being honored by the police department, politely clapping through his own greatness when someone asks the dreaded question: “What was the most difficult case of your life?” For most people, that’s a cue for a … Read More “Adbhut – Ghosts, Guilt, and One Very Persistent Detective” »
If you’ve ever thought the college admissions process might literally kill you, You’re Killing Me calmly leans over and says, “Sweetie, you have no idea.” On paper, it’s a horror thriller about a scholarship-hungry teen crashing a rich kid party to beg for a favor. In practice, it’s a very dark fairy tale about class, … Read More “You’re Killing Me – College Admissions, Class Warfare, and Several Felonies” »
A World Where Evil Doesn’t Knock, It Squats If most possession movies are about restoring order, When Evil Lurks is about kicking order into a ditch and leaving it there to rot. Demián Rugna’s film doesn’t just flirt with bleakness; it marries it, has kids with it, and then feeds those kids to demons. Set … Read More “When Evil Lurks – Demonology for People Who Hate Hope” »
In We Are Zombies, the dead are calm, the living are idiots, and the real apocalypse is customer service. It’s a zombie film where brains aren’t food so much as a missing feature, especially among corporate suits and small-time crooks. The result is a gleefully trashy, surprisingly clever horror-comedy that treats the undead less like … Read More “We Are Zombies (2023) – Late-Stage Capitalism, Early-Stage Decomposition” »
If you’ve ever thought, “Family trips are stressful, but at least we’re not cursed by a demon,” Vash is here to raise the bar. Krishnadev Yagnik’s Gujarati-language supernatural psychological horror takes the simple premise of a family holiday and lovingly grinds it into dust under the heel of black magic, parental guilt, and one of … Read More “Vash (2023) – Family Vacation, But Make It Hellbound” »