1920: Horrors of the Heart is the sort of movie that makes you feel deep sympathy for the year 1920, which did nothing to deserve being dragged into this mess. It’s billed as gothic horror, but it plays more like a three-hour TV soap that fell into a bucket of Halloween props and black magic … Read More “1920: Horrors of the Heart” »
The Witch: Part 2. The Other One is the kind of sequel that doesn’t gently continue the story—it kicks the door in, kills everyone in the room, and then calmly asks if you’d like to meet its twin sister. Park Hoon-jung doesn’t so much expand the universe of Part 1 as he does detonate it … Read More “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One” »
Venus is what happens when you take a grimy Madrid housing block, an H. P. Lovecraft story, and a bag of stolen drugs, then shake them together until something unholy and fluorescent falls out. It’s loud, sweaty, aggressively unpleasant in all the right ways—and it proudly refuses to act like a respectable “elevated horror” film. … Read More “Venus” »
Under Wraps 2 is the kind of sequel that feels less like a movie and more like a contractual obligation accidentally edited into 80 minutes. It’s a Disney Channel Original Movie where the scariest thing on screen isn’t the mummy, or the evil mummy, or even the hypnotized goon—it’s the sheer volume of plot shoved … Read More “Under Wraps 2” »
Torn Hearts is what happens when a Nashville dream, a busted GPS, and unchecked ambition all end up in the same haunted mansion with Katey Sagal and too much whiskey. It’s a sharp, mean little horror-thriller that asks, “How far will you go for fame?” and then patiently waits while its characters sprint straight past … Read More “Torn Hearts” »
They/Them (or, as the movie very helpfully insists, They-Slash-Them) is a film that somehow manages to take conversion therapy, queer trauma, Kevin Bacon, slasher tropes, and a masked killer…and still feel like a very long, very awkward corporate diversity workshop with a body count tacked on at the end. It clearly wants to be important. … Read More “They/Them (or, as the movie very helpfully insists, They-Slash-Them)” »
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is the cinematic equivalent of someone saying, “We’re doing a respectful legacy sequel,” and then immediately tripping face-first into a pit of TikTok trends and chainsaw fuel. It’s positioned as a direct follow-up to the 1974 classic, set fifty years later, but it feels less like a horror film and more … Read More “Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)” »
Swallowed is the kind of movie that makes you want to sit down with the phrase “follow your dreams” and ask a few follow-up questions. It’s a queer body horror crime thriller about friendship, exploitation, and ambition, wrapped around the single worst smuggling tactic anyone has ever seriously committed to film: swallowing mysterious bio-drug larvae … Read More “Swallowed” »
Spirit Halloween: The Movie feels less like a film and more like a 90-minute corporate training video that accidentally hired Christopher Lloyd. It’s the cinematic equivalent of getting a coupon in the mail and realizing the fine print says “Valid only inside this screenplay.” On paper, it sounds like a fun, spooky kids’ adventure: three … Read More “Spirit Halloween: The Movie” »
Smile is the rare studio horror movie that understands one crucial truth: the scariest thing about mental health work isn’t the paperwork or the pay—it’s no one believing you when you say, “Hey, I think an invisible trauma demon is trying to crawl into my mouth.” Parker Finn’s feature debut takes a premise that could’ve … Read More “Smile (2022) Review” »