Slotherhouse Gets More Mileage Than Expected From Its Silly Premise

Horror loves when animals attack making it almost a subgenre unto itself. And there are plenty of scary things in nature waiting to get us. Some animals, fish, and insects are scary than others. Plenty of horror movies feature killer sharks, snakes, crocodiles or alligators, and spiders. Occasionally, you might find a horror movie where […]

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Sick Re-Imagines the Slasher With Ultra-Lean, Tense Results

For any horror fan living outside of the United States and without access to the Peacock streaming service, you’ve been likely wait for this news. Several months after debuting on the limited platform, John Hyams and Kevin Williamson’s critically-acclaimed slasher Sick has finally made its way to other VOD sites. Described as a mix of […]

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Elevator Game a Viral-Inspired Thriller That Can’t Get Off the First Floor

Following up on one of 2022’s better horror movies, Glorious, director Rebekah McKendry (All The Creatures Were Stirring) is back with Elevator Game. Like Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, this one’s riffing on another Internet trend. Apparently, it’s a game originating in Japan and South Korea that takes you to another dimension if you push elevator […]

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Waxwork Wears Its 80s Bonafides On Its Sleeve, For Better and Worse

By the end of the 1980s, the best days of the slasher movie were in the rearview mirror. The Friday the 13th series was long in the tooth, and A Nightmare on Elm Street wasn’t far behind. In general, horror was hitting a lull by the end of the decade. But the straight-to-video market allowed […]

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The Nun 2 Conjures Up a Few More Scares To Improve Over Its Predecessor

At the start of the summer, the Insidious franchise made big waves at the box office with another sequel, Insidious: The Red Door. Over two years have passed since The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It brought the Warrens back for another entry to the Conjuring universe. Apparently, Ed and Lorraine Warren will be […]

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Monkey Shines Marks an Offbeat, But Flawed, George A. Romero Effort

Over the course of his career, George A. Romero established himself as a Master of Horror. After all, Romero largely crafted much of what we now know associate with the zombie genre of horror. His ‘Living Dead’ series was massively influential – Romero delivered a significant shift to zombie movies. Outside of the zombie subgenre, […]

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Dude Bro Party Massacre III ‘Bros Down’ on Its Slasher Spoof

Horror and comedy are tough genres to mix. A handful of horror spoofs work quite well and have secured sizable fanbases. Deathgasm, Werewolves Within, Willy’s Wonderland, Cocaine Bear, and Renfield all mix silly levels of gore with laughs to varying levels of success. But for every Scary Movie there’s a handful of Dracula: Dead and […]

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