Portrait Of The Artist As A Walking Violation There are films about struggling artists, and then there’s The Driller Killer, where “struggling” means “one bad gallery rejection away from going full Black & Decker on the neighborhood.” Abel Ferrara’s grubby little classic is part slasher, part black comedy, and part cinéma vérité panic attack, shot … Read More “The Driller Killer (1979) – Art, madness, and power tools” »
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” »