Malum Finds Plenty of Scares in its Re-Imagining of the Recent Last Shift

Several years ago, writer and director Anthony DiBlasi had a minor horror hit on his hands with Last Shift. As its title implied, Last Shift focused on a rookie cop working alone in an abandoned police station on its ‘last shift’ before closing. It’s story of murderous cult members who committed suicide in the station […]

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Project Wolf Hunting a Relentless Action-Thriller for Fans of the Extreme

South Korean cinema has a rich history in the horror genre. Train to Busan. The Wailing. Noroi – The Curse. The Medium. I Saw the Devil. The Host. That’s an impressive list and by no means a complete one. Now the latest South Korean offering, Project Wolf Hunting, mixes action and horror alongside generous amounts […]

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I See Dead People – Ranking M. Night Shyamalan’s Movies From Worst To Best

Is there a more divisive filmmaker around than M. Night Shyamalan? Yes, there likely are other filmmakers who provoke a range of strong responses. But not many of these directors present with a more polarizing filmography than Shyamalan. From the highs of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable to the lows of After Earth and The […]

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Hooked Up A Little-Seen Spanish Addition to the Found-Footage Subgenre

Somewhere in the mid-2010s, as found-footage was stalling a bit, Spanish found-footage thriller Hooked Up quietly debuted at a small film festival. Roughly two years passed before the iPhone-shot thriller made its way to VOD platforms. Unlike another Spanish found-footage movie, [REC] and its sequels, Hooked Up never found much of an audience. Based on […]

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Assault on Precinct 13 Remake a Perfectly Fine Pulpy Action Thriller

Hollywood remakes of 80s horror movies defined the early 2000s alongside ‘Torture Porn‘ and J-horror. Many of these remakes pillaged from the VHS shelves of the slasher subgenre. Terror Train, Prom Night, When a Stranger Calls, and The Stepfather all received forgettable retreads. Not surprisingly, John Carpenter’s illustrious filmography has seen a handful of remakes […]

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Bless the Child a Belated, Flat End-of-the-Millennium Thriller

If you’re a Gen-X horror fan, you’ll likely remember the hysteria that accompanied the dawn of the new millennium. Fears about the ‘Y2K bug’ had people believing that planes would fall from the sky. Experts warned that entire infrastructures may collapse. Never one to miss a panic the horror genre responded with a handful of […]

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The Third Saturday in October and Its ‘Sequel’ Take Horror Back to the Blockbuster Days of Renting

Nostalgia for 80s slashers isn’t new. When Scream hit theaters in 1996, it re-ignited a brief slasher-lite phase. Plenty of other horror movies have tried to specifically replicate the grainy and seedy retro-aesthetics of ‘Golden Era’ slashers such as Steve Mena’s Malevolence or Dude Bro Party Massacre III. Now Dark Sky Films and director Jay […]

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Hellhole – Polish Supernatural Thriller the Latest Viral Horror Hit on Netflix

Netflix invests little effort into its horror movie library. By this time last year, the streaming giant had at least released the divisive Texas Chainsaw Massacre legacy sequel. Thus far in 2023 Netflix hasn’t platformed any original horror movies. At least the horror content quietly shuffles a bit each month. So if you’re inclined to […]

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