Poché Pictures

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if someone fed a police procedural, a bargain-bin slasher, and a Riot City news montage into a wood chipper, Vindicta is your answer. It’s loud, overwrought, and somehow still weirdly dull—like being screamed at by a motivational poster. Day One on the Job: Worst Internship Ever Our heroine, … Read More “Vindicta” »

If you’ve ever thought, “I’d love to move to the Irish countryside, but with more goblins and cranial trauma,” Unwelcomeis here to grant that wish in the least Pinterest-friendly way possible. From Urban Nightmare to Rural Hellscape The film starts in London, where Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) get the worst pregnancy celebration … Read More “Unwelcome” »

If you’ve ever watched a cozy Christmas commercial and thought, “This needs more homicide and folklore,” There’s Something in the Barn is absolutely your movie. American Dream, Norwegian Nightmare The setup is simple and gloriously unwise: Bill Nordheim (Martin Starr), an aggressively optimistic American dad, drags his family from the States to rural Norway to … Read More “There’s Something in the Barn” »

The Strays is what happens when you take a glossy British suburban drama, inject it with unresolved generational trauma, and then lock the doors so nobody can politely leave. Nathaniel Martello-White’s directorial debut looks like an aspirational Netflix lifestyle ad at first glance—and then spends the next 100 minutes gleefully dismantling everything in the frame. … Read More “Perfect Life, Now with Added Nightmares” »

If Sister Death proves anything, it’s that not every mysterious side character needs a prequel. In Verónica, the blind nun was chilling, enigmatic, and on screen just long enough to haunt your brain. In Sister Death, she gets 90+ minutes of backstory and somehow walks away less interesting. That’s an achievement, just not the kind … Read More “Sister Death: Holy Boredom, Batman” »

Sewu Dino is the kind of horror movie that looks at the phrase “bad work conditions” and says, “Hold my incense.” Based on a viral horror story and directed by Kimo Stamboel, this 2023 Indonesian chiller turns a simple job offer into a 1000-day HR violation from the spirit world. It’s supernatural terror wrapped in … Read More “A Thousand Days, Zero Chill” »

The Sacrifice Game is what happens when a Christmas movie, a satanic cult road trip, and a girls’-boarding-school drama all get snowed in together and decide to share one blood-soaked eggnog. Directed by Jenn Wexler, the film takes place at Blackvale Academy in the early ’70s, where two girls stuck at school over the holidays … Read More “Satanic Panic, But Make It Cozy” »

The Pope’s Exorcist is the kind of movie that feels like it was greenlit after someone said, “What if Russell Crowe did The Exorcist, but, like, fun?” and then nobody in the room had the courage to say no. Based (very loosely) on the writings of Father Gabriele Amorth, it takes a fascinating real person … Read More “Holy Ghost, What Is This?” »

Perpetrator is what happens when a teen coming-of-age movie, a feminist horror-noir, and a midnight film with a twisted sense of humor all get tossed into the same witch’s cauldron and boiled on high. Written and directed by Jennifer Reeder, the 2023 Shudder original follows Jonquil “Jonny” Baptiste, a reckless teen who turns 18, gets … Read More “A Coming-of-Rage Story with Teeth” »

Organ Trail is the rare modern horror Western that remembers two crucial truths: the frontier was hell, and people are idiots. Set in 1870s Montana, the film treats the Oregon Trail era less like a sepia-toned history lesson and more like a long, brutal error message from God. And yet, beneath the frostbite, bullet wounds, … Read More “Blood on the Snow, Heart on Its Sleeve” »