Occasionally, Netflix feigns interest in horror. We get a Fear Street trilogy or the unfairly maligned Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But the original streaming giant doesn’t have much to offer genre fans. While Shudder has consistently stepped up to offer classic and original programming, Hulu has made up for a lack of volume with surprisingly good […]
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Drugged out horror has a small, if not interesting, history in horror. Golden Era slashers played out like conservative wish fulfilment where young people having sex and doing drugs met awful fates. But drug-infused horror has more often allowed directors to unleash a surreal psychedelic nightmare world on audiences. Gaspar Noé’s Climax was a hallucinatory-trip […]
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For years, Guillermo del Toro has defined Mexican horror. From Cronos to The Devil’s Backbone to Crimson Peak, del Toro is the auteur with whom we most associate with Mexican scare flicks. But there’s plenty of good genre fare to find from south of the States. From Alucarda to We Are What We Are to […]
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Not enough people know about The Ruins. When it was released in 2008, it feel amidst the Torture Porn wave that defined the early 2000s. And critics weren’t particular kind to the mix of eco- and body horror. Regardless it’s much better than its initial critical reception and marked an impressive debut feature for director […]
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British writer and filmmaker Alex Garland has put together an impressive résumé. In addition to penning the 1990s novel, The Beach, Garland has written screenplays for 28 Days Later, Dredd, and Sunshine. His directorial debut was the critically-lauded Ex Machina and his follow-up, Annihilation, was criminally underseen. His latest movie, Men, marks his third collaboration […]
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Follows its debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Finnish horror movie Hatching has generated considerable buzz. Just the premise and accompanying promotional material are enough pique curiosity. Its premise of a young girl ‘hatching’ a monster from an implausibly large egg conjures up allusions to something written by The Brothers Grimm. From first time […]
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With the current state of the world, escapist fare doesn’t sound like a bad idea. And what’s more escapist than a movie about aliens. Now for the second time in recent weeks, a new horror movie finds inspiration from past sci-fi horror classics, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing. While The Changed […]
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You better watch out, you better not cry. Better not pout, I’m telling you why… Yes, it’s that time of year. Maybe you have your ‘Elf on the Shelf’ out. We know Santa’s been checking and updating his list all year, but it’s never too late to end up on the ‘Naughty List.’ And let’s […]
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