Directed by Meredith Alloway Written by Meredith Alloway and Lily Houghton Starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, and Alexandra Shipp With the commitment to its own candy coating and its camp, this becomes a fun time whose cast is all for the ride. I get why people have been comparing this to Mean Girls and The Craft, and I also saw a review draw … Continue reading Review of Forbidden Fruits
This isn’t my first foray into the history of the Slasher film genre. I still do love me some Slashers, but something like 90% of my experience with them comes in the form of franchises. Your Halloweens or Fridays The 13th or A Nightmares On Elm Street or even a Maniac Cop or three. I dig them, but I tend to dig them in bunches, … Continue reading The Burning Review
I’ve written so many times about Shudder. No other streaming service brings me as much joy while, at the same time, also inflicting upon me so much suffering. Shudder Roulette is real; I never have any idea what I am going to get from that service. I was quite pleased earlier this year with Honey Bunch, sure. But it’s been rough sledding since then. Just … Continue reading This Is Not A Test Review
You know a Shudder movie is a big deal when it gets a full theatrical release before it hits the horror streaming service. Previously, such films have included Late Night With The Devil and In A Violent Nature. These were efforts where there was clearly enough sentiment that they would do well in cinemas and draw in some more profit for the company, so they … Continue reading Dolly Review
Honey Bunch is a relatively new outing featured on Shudder that I had kept passing over for several days due to reasons I will get into in the Ups and Downs. It just kind of sat there on the New Releases screen if I scrolled enough to the right on the AMC+ home page. And I’d look at it, and I’d hem and haw, and … Continue reading Honey Bunch Review
It wasn’t that long ago that I watched Creature From The Black Lagoon for the first time. I was going through the stretch of watching several of the classic Universal Horror features, and after having gotten through some of the bigger name ones (Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, etc), I finally made my way to Creature. Honestly, I thought the sea monster tale was one … Continue reading Monster Island Review
I often forget that AMC+ is its own whole streaming service. You see, we access Shudder through AMC+, so the vast majority of the time, when I am turning on AMC+, it’s to immediately scroll down several bars and get to the Shudder button. In our household, we live or die with Shudder, and it’s one of our most used streaming services on our televisions. … Continue reading Tornado Review
It’s been a hard go of watching movies as of late because the wife has gotten deeply invested in Dimension 20 on Dropout.TV. So any free moment the both of us have had has gone into watching that. But I do, occasionally, get her to want to watch something else other than really rad improv comedians doing Dungeons & Dragons for two-and-a- half hours at … Continue reading 825 Forest Road Review
There are still too many horror classics that I have not seen. But I’ve been working on them! For instance, I’ve had Nosferatu on my playlist for a while now, but I keep not having the time or energy to watch it. But I’ll get there soon enough. Robert Eggers’ upcoming reimagining of the tale is enough impetus to get me to watch the original … Continue reading Candyman 1992 Review
January twelfth two-thousand and twenty-five, and it’s time to get our first bout of Shudder Roulette under our belts for the new year with the new take on the Folk Horror genre, Get Away. I strangely feel like I’ve been watching less Shudder than usual lately, so I needed this. Maybe it’s because I no longer subscribe to Shudder directly, but now get to it … Continue reading Get Away Review
Look for Hell Hole, the new movie by The Adams Family, to be hitting Shudder soon! Oh, it’s a new Shudder movie, and everyone knows those and I go way back! Hell Hole is a new movie from The Adams Family movie-making family, and it tells the tale of a parasitic monster hosting itself in various bodies as it waits to be ready to thrive … Continue reading Hell Hole Review
This review was made possible by an advance screener of Black Cab. Black Cab premieres on Shudder on Friday, November 8th (my birthday!). When Anne (Synnøve Karlsen) and Patrick (Luke Norris) hail a black cab after a night out their driver (Nick Frost) is chatty, jovial even, but they are in no mood to talk. In fact, the couple is barely on speaking terms. That is, until they realize the … Continue reading Black Cab Review
I really like when a movie can hit you with a powerful premise righty away. A quick hook to get you attached and held on. And, admittedly, some movies fail to really follow through with the promise of their initial grab, but it’s still something to keep you pondering as you watch. How will the flick resolve that early attention-getter? I bring this up because … Continue reading Daddy’s Head Review
V/H/S/BEYOND, the seventh installment of the V/H/S franchise will feature six new bloodcurdling tapes, placing horror at the forefront of a sci-fi-inspired hellscape. Directed by JORDAN DOWNEY (ThanksKilling, The Head Hunter) CHRISTIAN LONG & JUSTIN LONG (Jeepers Creepers, Barbarian) JUSTIN MARTINEZ (V/H/S, Southbound) VIRAT PAL (Recapture) KATE SIEGEL (Hush, “The Haunting of Hill House”) and a special presentation by JAY CHEEL (How To Build A Time Machine) I’ve talked before about … Continue reading V/H/S Beyond Review
In a world in which no one speaks, a mysterious, devout community hunts down a young woman named Azrael (Samara Weaving) who has escaped their imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, she is to be sacrificed to pacify an evil which resides deep within the surrounding wilderness – but Azrael will stop at nothing to ensure her own freedom and survival. From the seeds of … Continue reading Azrael Review
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