If the first Escape Room was a tight, silly-but-fun “Final Destination meets IKEA puzzle aisle,” Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is the overcaffeinated DLC pack nobody asked for but Sony released anyway. It’s not unwatchable. It’s just the cinematic equivalent of someone saying, “Remember that thing you liked? What if we did it again but … Read More “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021) Now with 100% more nonsense and 200% less sense” »
Some movies are hidden gems. Dreamcatcher is more like a glow stick you find the morning after the rave—cracked, sticky, and faintly embarrassing for everyone involved. Jacob Johnson’s 2021 horror-thriller wants to be a neon-soaked, synth-scored descent into depravity—“Suspiria meets EDM festival” with a dash of The Neon Demon and maybe a hint of The … Read More “Dreamcatcher (2021) Rave, grave, and absolutely no wave” »
If you’ve ever watched Tremors and thought, “This needs more corporate evil and way less sunlight,” The Devil Belowhas you covered. It’s grimy, underground creature-feature comfort food: miners, monsters, locals with secrets, and one very bad geological idea that should absolutely have stayed buried. Bradley Parker’s film is not “elevated horror.” It is, proudly, “what … Read More “The Devil Below (2021) – Corporate greed, coal fires, and cave goblins” »
There are unlikeable protagonists, and then there is Annie in DASHCAM, a film that bravely asks: “What if we made a horror movie where the monster isn’t the demon, or the cult, or the parasite, but the main character’s personality?” Rob Savage’s follow-up to Host looks, on paper, like a clever move: another screenlife horror … Read More “DASHCAM (2021) Found footage, lost patience” »
There are creature features, and then there’s The Cursed, which looks at the idea of “werewolves terrorize a village” and says, “Sure, but what if everyone was also emotionally destroyed, morally doomed, and permanently damp?” Sean Ellis’ gothic horror film is less “fun monster romp” and more “elegant slow-motion nightmare about colonizers getting exactly what’s … Read More “The Cursed (2021) – Prestige werewolf misery with great hair” »
Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor is one of those rare horror films that feels like it was made by someone who not only loves the genre, but also understands its shameful little secrets—why people watch, why people ban, and why sometimes the most damaged person in the room is the one holding the scissors. On the surface, … Read More “Censor (2021) When you stare into the video nasty, the video nasty stares back” »
There are slow-burn mysteries… and then there’s Broadcast Signal Intrusion, which spends 90 minutes staring at TV static, mumbling about conspiracies, and calling it atmospheric. It’s the cinematic equivalent of someone telling you, “Bro, I found something HUGE online,” then making you watch three hours of grainy YouTube videos while refusing to explain anything and … Read More “Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) When your creepy VHS tape has more buffering than terror” »
There’s a special corner of horror reserved for movies that have a great premise, a meaningful real-world backbone, and then somehow faceplant directly into the swamp of “Oh no, this is what you did with it?” Blackstock Boneyard lives in that corner. Rent-free. Probably next to a stack of unwatched DVDs and a half-written thinkpiece … Read More “Blackstock Boneyard (2021) “Based on a true story”… sadly, so is the runtime” »
If you’ve ever wished bullied kids had a literal dead-children support line they could call for backup, The Black Phone is here to make that oddly specific dream come true. Scott Derrickson takes Joe Hill’s short story and stretches it into a full-length nightmare about trauma, abuse, and the most cursed piece of rotary hardware … Read More “The Black Phone (2021) – Ghost-assisted teen revenge hotline” »
When Therapy, Marriage, and Plot All Need a Second Opinion The Believer is the kind of horror movie that really makes you think. Not about life, or faith, or the nature of reality. No, mainly about things like: “Why is this still going?” “Did they write this in one draft and just hit ‘export’?” “Is … Read More “The Believer (2021) Gaslighting: The Movie (Now with Billy Zane)” »