The Outwaters is what happens when someone watches The Blair Witch Project and says, “Cool, but what if we go full cosmic breakdown and never give the audience a safety rail?” Written, directed, produced, edited, and partially suffered-through by Robbie Banfitch, this 2022 found-footage horror film is not here to hold your hand. It’s here … Read More “Welcome to the Desert, We Hope You Brought Therapy” »
Night of the Tommyknockers is what happens when someone looks at a dusty Old West town and says, “You know what this needs? Miners, bank robbers, and flesh-eating cryptid goblins.” Directed by Michael Su and starring Richard Grieco, Robert LaSardo, and Tom Sizemore, this 2022 Western-horror mashup doesn’t pretend to be prestige cinema. It’s here … Read More “Six-Shooters, Slimy Monsters, and Zero Subtlety” »
Moloch is the kind of folk horror movie that quietly wades up to you, smelling of peat and bad omens, and then politely ruins your night. Directed by Nico van den Brink, this 2022 Dutch folk horror gem takes the familiar “small village with a big problem” formula and soaks it in atmosphere, folklore, and … Read More “Welcome to the Bog, Please Mind the Ancient Curse” »
Alex Garland’s Men is what happens when a “healing countryside getaway” goes so catastrophically wrong it might as well be sponsored by your therapist’s retirement fund. On the surface, it’s a surreal folk horror film about a grieving widow being tormented by a village full of uncanny men. Underneath, it’s a jagged, funny-in-a-deeply-wrong-way exploration of … Read More “Welcome to the Worst Wellness Retreat in England” »
Masooda is the kind of supernatural horror movie that makes you realize evil spirits aren’t the real enemy—runtime is. Written and directed by Sai Kiran and praised by critics and audiences like it cured seasonal depression, this 2022 Telugu horror film feels less like a haunting and more like someone read an entire family’s generational … Read More “When Exorcism Meets Excel Spreadsheet” »
The Long Night (also known as The Coven, presumably because The Long Trudge to Nothing Happening didn’t test well) is a 2022 horror film that proves one thing very clearly: you can have a creepy cult, a remote farmhouse, apocalyptic prophecy, and still end up with a movie that feels like a nap you accidentally … Read More “When Weekend Getaways Go Straight to DVD” »
KKN di Desa Penari is that rare horror film that doesn’t just warn you not to come in—it posts a metaphysical “Do Not Disturb” sign, waits for you to ignore it, and then charges you emotional rent. Based on the viral SimpleMan thread and directed by Awi Suryadi, this 2022 Indonesian supernatural horror is both … Read More “Welcome to the Village You Were Explicitly Told Not to Visit” »
The Fearway is what happens when somebody watches The Twilight Zone, gets stuck in traffic, and thinks, “You know what this needs? Route 66, a demon muscle car, and a diner that absolutely fails every health inspection in the afterlife.” It’s a small, strange, loopy little horror film that leans hard into its concept: you … Read More “The Fearway” »
The Exorcist: Believer is less a horror movie and more a very expensive séance where a studio tries to summon the spirit of a masterpiece and instead gets… whatever this is. If the original Exorcist is a sacred text of horror cinema, Believer is the tie-in coloring book somebody left out in the rain. It’s … Read More “The Exorcist: Believer” »
Double Blind is the kind of movie that takes the simple pleasure of a good nap, rips it away from you, and then spends 90 minutes reminding you that sleep is for the weak, the dead, or people not trapped in an Irish medical facility run by sociopaths with clipboards. If you’ve ever stayed up … Read More “Double Blind” »