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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Over halfway through the year 2023 and a few themes have quietly emerged in horror. We’ve had the expected dose of sequels (Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise) alongside a handful of viral surrealist hits (Skinamarink, The Outwaters). But this year has seen a handful of horror movies with ‘mommy issues’ including Attachment and Bad Things. […]
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In spite of its workmanlike quality, The Headmistress proves to a rather effective little thriller. Yes, Micklos and Sapiro rely on tried and true setups for their scares. For instance, loud noises almost always accompany their scares. Yes, it’s a lazy way to deliver your jolts. Yet at the same time, The Headmistress almost always successfully delivers on those scares.
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We’ve officially reached the mid-point of summer – a dead space usually for horror movies. Most of the big prestige releases – Insidious: The Red Door and The Boogeyman – have already been released. And the dog days of summer where studios occasionally drop late summer horror hits, like The Meg and its upcoming sequel, […]
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This weekend the latest – and maybe the last – installment of the Insidious franchise released into theaters. It’s been 12 years since the original Insidious debuted and about five years since the last sequel made it to cineplexes. But time apparently hasn’t sapped horror fans of their interest for the series. In an unexpected […]
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The COVID-19 global pandemic didn’t cancel a lot of plans in 2020 – it pretty much cancelled all plans. Studios all but delayed most major releases as the world went into lockdown. Major movies saw their release dates re-shuffled. And some movies just got buried and forgotten about as they were discarded onto VOD and […]
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While it might sound strange to say, slasher movies were, at their core, very conservative horror movies. Yes, Christian fundamentalists and other moralists may have been up in arms about the violence. But the basic tropes of masked killers ‘punishing’ young adults flaunting moral conventions by drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in pre-marital sex felt […]
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Summertime is around the corner. That means it’s time for beaches and camping. Of course, if you’re a horror fan, summer means summer campground horror. From Friday the 13th to The Burning to Sleepaway Camp, camping doesn’t just mean archery, poison ivy, and naughty counselors. Released earlier this year, nostalgic 80s throwback She Came From […]
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