Killer On A Morality CrusadeOn paper, The Centerfold Girls sounds like pure grindhouse junk: a religious nut with a medical bag and a serious women’s-magazine problem crisscrosses the countryside murdering centerfold models for their sins. In practice, it’s weirder, sharper, and more thoughtful than its sexploitation label suggests—like someone hid a nasty little art film … Read More “The Centerfold Girls (1974) – Sleazy, strange, smarter than expected” »
Scenic Murano, Now With Extra Murder There are “slow-burn thrillers,” and then there’s The Blood Stained Shadow, which smolders like a damp cigarette in a Venetian ashtray. Antonio Bido’s giallo wants to be a brooding nightmare of sin, religion, and repressed childhood trauma. What it mostly delivers is a travel brochure for Murano with some … Read More “The Blood Stained Shadow (1978) – Pretty Murano, very dumb mystery” »
Haunted By Something Worse Than Your ExThe Wailing (El llanto) is the kind of psychological horror that doesn’t just want to scare you; it wants to move in, rearrange your furniture, and then sob softly in the dark corner you forgot your therapist warned you about. Pedro Martín-Calero’s feature debut follows women stalked by an … Read More “The Wailing (2024) – Three women, one very clingy ghost” »
Slasher By Algorithm If a horror fan typed “make a slasher with everything” into an AI, Stream is pretty much what would come out: four masked killers, a family in crisis, a haunted-ish hotel, a death game, live-streaming, dark web bidders, too many cameos, and a villain named Lockwood who apparently exists in multiple dimensions … Read More “Stream (2024) – Four killers, zero original ideas” »
Eight Legs, Zero RegretsSome creature features apologize for being B-movies. Sting proudly crawls onto your face, hisses, and asks if you’d like popcorn with that panic attack. Kiah Roache-Turner takes a gleefully dumb setup—alien spider egg crashes into a crappy New York apartment, lonely kid raises it like a secret Tamagotchi from hell—and plays it … Read More “Sting (2024) – Your worst pet idea ever” »
Corpse TV For The Digital AgeDavid Cronenberg has finally answered a question nobody sane was asking: what if grieving your spouse involved a 3D livestream of their decomposing corpse? The Shrouds takes that ghoulish premise and plays it straight—not as a cheap horror gimmick, but as an oddly tender, darkly funny meditation on love, control, … Read More “The Shrouds (2024) – Grief, tech, and rotting love” »
A Vacation From Logic There’s a special place in cinematic hell for movies where the scariest thing isn’t the demon, but the runtime. Shaitaan, Vikas Bahl’s 132-minute supernatural slog, takes a perfectly serviceable premise—a creepy stranger, a remote farmhouse, a possessed daughter—and somehow turns it into an overlong lecture on why parents should never open … Read More “Shaitaan: The Devil Wears Discount Exorcist When you order “The Exorcist” on a budget streaming site and it arrives possessed by PowerPoint logic.” »
If you’ve ever thought, “What if watching too many gory horror movies actually turned you into a killer?”, congratulations: you just recreated the central idea of every 80s news segment, several dozen angry op-eds, and the entire plot of Evil Ed. The difference is those old segments were shorter and accidentally funnier. This 1995 Swedish … Read More “Evil Ed – Editing, insanity, and 90 minutes of “we get it, it’s satire”” »
There are bad movies, and then there’s Bad Girls from Mars, which feels less like a film and more like a tax write-off that accidentally learned to walk. Fred Olen Ray’s 1990 black comedy sci-fi slasher aims for meta satire about Hollywood, sex, and low-budget genre trash… and mostly ends up proving its own thesis … Read More “Bad Girls from Mars – When the insurance policy is the real star” »
There are erotic thrillers, and then there’s Color of Night, which looks at the genre’s rules, rips them up, sets them on fire, and then has sex on the ashes. It’s a movie that tried to be everything at once—psychological drama, giallo-style murder mystery, softcore fantasy—and face-planted at the box office, only to crawl back … Read More “Color of Night, 1994 – horny, pulpy, gloriously unhinged” »