Candyman
An academic’s (Virginia Madsen) research into urban legends takes her through the looking glass when one grizzly ghost story gets its hooks into her. This psychological thriller might be best […]
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The Exorcist: Believer
Inspired by The Exorcist‘s defiling of a childhood bedroom, director David Gordon Green trashes a beloved property in this heretical sequel. 50 years after the events of William Friedkin’s Catholic […]
The Exorcist
The greatest thing to come out of Catholicism since Pancake Day, The Exorcist is re-released for its 50th anniversary. It follows a famous actor (Ellen Burstyn) who moves to Washington […]
Friday the 13th Parts 1-3
Having rewatched the first three Friday the 13th films on the eponymous, inauspicious occasion, here is another stab at reviewing these classic slashers (and Friday the 13th Part 3). Friday […]
Saw X
What do the Saw franchise and Cheryl Cole’s career have in common? They both should have ended after that toilet attack 20 years ago. Saw X takes place between Saw and Saw […]
Cobweb
A boy (Woody Norman) hears a knock on his bedroom wall in this horror flick called Cobweb, because The Knocking was already taken and sounds stupid. In a particularly stale […]
The Blackening
Bodies Bodies Bodies meets Bitch Ass in this horror/comedy about the most racist board game since Trump: The Game. The Blackening looks designed to skewer black representation in the horror […]
The Nun II: Back in the Habit
Valak the demon nun is back to wreak Mass boredom on a French monastery in this Holy Seequel to The Nun; putting the con in convent since 2018. I haven’t […]
Day of the Dead
The lunatics have taken over the underground research facility in this plague-fuelled military satire they should have called Dr. Strain-Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our […]
FrightFest 2023: Departing Seniors
Days before graduation, a set of high school bullies are given a bloody send-off by a masked killer in indie slasher Departing Seniors; a punny title likely lost on British […]
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