Lost Souls a Remarkably Soulless, Derivative ‘End-of-the-World’ Thriller
If you were born after 2000, you never experienced the brief moral panic that proceeded New Year’s Eve in 1999. Those were the days of the dreaded Y2K virus. For a brief moment in time, people expected to world to shut down and planes to fall from the sky. Never one to miss a scary trend, the horror genre obliged…
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No One Will Save You an Alien Invasion Thriller That Feels Like an Instant Classic
If you were hesitant to get excited about No One Will Save You, the sci-fi horror genre has given you plenty of reason. While The X-Files made alien abduction conspiracy theories cool, plenty of movies fell pretty short of the mark. Yes, the moments of 90s thriller Fire in the Sky are chilling. But that scene in question is sandwiched…
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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 dogs or zoo animals turn…
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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 post-modern slasher with COVID-19 themes,…
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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 buttons in a certain order.…
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Spider Baby a Drive-In 60s Precursor to Contemporary Hillbilly Horror
When it was released in 1967, Spider Baby (or the Maddest Story Ever Told) barely made a ripple. And that’s probably a generous assessment. Just about no one saw the Jack Hill-written and directed exploitation thriller. Even the presence of an older Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man) had little impact. Of course, Chaney was over 20 years removed from…
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The Pack Offers Mild 70s Eco-Horror Thrills From Man’s Best Friend
In the 1970s, nature fought back against humanity in a plethora of eco-horror movies. Sometimes it was spiders (Kingdom of Spiders) or ants (Phase IV, Empire of the Ants) or rats (Willard). Giant killer rabbits (Night of the Lepus) and giant, well, everything (Food of the Gods) occasionally turned up. Other movies just shamelessly imitated Jaws (Orca, Tentacles, Grizzly). And…
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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 a lot of B-movie horror…
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