Anything for Jackson
From the Hallmark duo behind Baby in a Manger comes this horror flick about a couple (Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings) who kidnap a pregnant woman (Konstantina Mantelos) to use as […]
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Immaculate
A nun (Sydney Sweeney) gets pregnant without having sex in this avowedly pro-choice horror flick they should have called Rosary’s Baby. Horror has such a serious nun habit right now […]
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 […]
Jug Face
2013 horror movie Jug Face (AKA The Pit) reunites The Woman‘s Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter and producer Lucky McKee for another genre gem set at the bloody intersection of […]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American (Tony Musante) in Rome witnesses the most heinous act to disgrace an art gallery since that “invisible” exhibition. Dario Argento’s directorial debut (and the first instalment in his […]
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo follows an American ballet student (Jessica Harper) who goes to Germany to attend the most prestigious dance school in Europe. Imagine the Grand Budapest Hotel converted into an abattoir. […]
Hereditary
Be wary of horror films claiming to be the scariest thing since sentient bread. Usually when critics make those kinds of claims they’re only comparing them to those Conjuring movies, which […]
Mother!
I’ve long recommended exercising caution around films with exclamation marks in their title, whether it’s Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Mamma Mia!, or Darren Aronofsky’s Noah! Ok that […]
Prevenge
A couple of weeks ago, Ben Affleck announced that he will not be directing the standalone Batman movie, citing the challenges of directing while wearing the cumbersome Batsuit. Meanwhile, Alice […]
Eraserhead
After watching Erasherhead, and eating a certain amount of cheese, I dreamt I was being chased through a train by a shapeshifting man-dog and I couldn’t tell anyone because they’d say “it’s […]
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