The Rabbit Hole of Almost-Horror Run Rabbit Run is the kind of movie that makes you double-check your Netflix settings to see if you accidentally clicked “AI-generated horror template: maternal guilt edition.” An Australian psychological horror about a mother, a creepy kid, and a traumatic past, it arrives armed with a strong lead in Sarah … Read More “Run Rabbit Run (2023) – The Babadud” »
Anthology of “Almosts” Pinoy Ghost Tales wants to be the new Shake, Rattle & Roll so badly you can practically hear the franchise paperwork rustling in the background. It’s a three-part horror anthology built around familiar Filipino ghost setups: creepy kid, cursed workplace, haunted movie shoot. On paper, it sounds like sturdy genre comfort food. … Read More “Pinoy Ghost Tales (2023) – Three Ghost Stories, Zero Pulse” »
A Therapy Session Held at Gunpoint The Passenger is what happens when someone watches a prestige character study, a mid-range Blumhouse thriller, and a YouTube video essay about “trauma arcs” and decides to mix them together in a drive-thru blender. On paper, it’s a tense psychological two-hander: a meek fast-food worker forced into a bloody … Read More “The Passenger (2023) – Self-Help with a Shotgun” »
A Funeral Home, a Family, and One Very Bad Corpse Oliver Park’s The Offering is the rare demonic possession movie that feels like it actually washed its hands before work. Set in a Hasidic funeral home in Brooklyn, the film wraps familiar horror beats in a richly Jewish context and then lets an ancient baby-hunting … Read More “The Offering (2023) – Mazel Tov, It’s a Demon” »
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (2023) is the kind of remake that makes you appreciate public-domain silence. It takes one of the most haunting, nightmarish films ever made and asks the bold question: “What if we made it slower, louder, and somehow less alive than the 1922 silent version?” The answer plays out over roughly … Read More “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (2023)” »
There are movies about loneliness, and then there’s No One Will Save You, a film that looks at social isolation, shrugs, and says, “What if we add aliens and absolutely no dialogue?” It’s basically Home Alone if Kevin McCallister had unresolved childhood trauma, no family, and the Wet Bandits were eight feet tall with telekinesis … Read More “No One Will Save You (2023) – A nearly wordless alien home-invasion thriller” »
There’s something immediately glorious about a horror movie that takes a setting as inherently cursed as a remote roadside motel and asks, “What if the ghosts weren’t the problem?” Night Shift does exactly that. On the surface, it’s a familiar setup: new hire, empty halls, weird noises, moody lighting. But instead of just throwing jump … Read More “Night Shift (2023) A woman, a creepy roadside motel, a bad case of trauma, and the worst first day at work since “I swear I thought ‘reply all’ was private.”” »
The Walking Dull There are bad zombie movies, and then there are zombie movies so somber and self-serious that you find yourself rooting for the infection to spread — just to put everyone out of their misery. New Life, John Rosman’s 2023 “horror-thriller” (quotation marks doing a lot of heavy lifting here), falls squarely into … Read More “New Life (2023): A Zombie Movie That Should Have Stayed in Quarantine” »
The Devil Made Them Do It — But He Should’ve Made Them Edit It There are horror movies about possession. There are psychological thrillers about guilt. And then there’s Nefarious, a film that tries to be both and ends up looking like The Exorcist got rewritten by a Facebook uncle with a “Keep Christ in … Read More “Nefarious (2023): When Possession Turns Into a Sermon with Lighting Cues” »
The Legend Lives On… Unfortunately There’s something genuinely thrilling about urban legends — the whispered stories about haunted campuses, cursed bridges, and bathroom spirits that fuel every Filipino kid’s nightmares. But every now and then, someone takes a perfectly creepy legend and turns it into a film so muddled that you start rooting for the … Read More “Mary Cherry Chua (2023): A Ghost Story That Should’ve Stayed Buried” »