Smile
Kevin Bacon’s daughter Smoky (Sosie but close enough) plays a psychiatrist who witnessed her own mother’s suicide. With a bad horror history running through the family, Bacon fits right in. […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Hatching
When a pageant mom (Sophia Heikkilä) breaks a bird’s neck, what’s inside the egg it leaves behind comes as a surprise to her kinder. A frightening fable from Finland, Hatching […]
Crimes of the Future
The past eight years mark the longest ever gap between David Cronenberg films, the delicious irony being that is partially due to a global pandemic. Loosely based on Cronenberg’s 1970 […]
Jaws
Universal has re-released Jaws (the film, not the shark) at the IMAX, marking the first time there has been a great shark movie in cinemas since 1975. The film that […]
See How They Run
Looking at the news this past week, you would think the Queen was the only London institution that took up residence in 1952 to entertain tourists with its ritual, scandal […]
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Search Party meets Murder Party in A24’s new dark comedy about a group of friends searching for a murderer at a party. “Friends” in this case is a bit of […]
Paris, Texas
After being found adrift in the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) is reunited with the son (Hunter Carson) he abandoned four years earlier. Almost 40 years since its Palme […]
FrightFest 2022: Candy Land
From one Candy Land to another, this Christmas-set slasher follows a group of truck stop sex workers (Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell, Sam Quartin and Virginia Rand) whose lives are rear-ended […]
FrightFest 2022: Bitch Ass
For their gang initiation, 4 teenagers (Teon Kelley, Belle Guillory, A-F-R-O and Kelsey Caesar) are sent to rob a house only to find it inhabited by Bitch Ass (Tunde Laleye), […]
Drag Me to Hell
After a spidery sabbatical, Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre in 2009 to do for bank branches what The Evil Dead did for tree branches. Drag Me to Hell […]
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