Category: Horror
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Dolly (2026) Review: Rod Blackhurst’s Grindhouse Nightmare Turns Toxic Parenting into Brutal Folk Horror
Rod Blackhurst’s Dolly resurrects the grimy aesthetic of 1970s grindhouse horror and fuses it with the unsettling brutality of modern extremity cinema. Set deep within the remote forests of Tennessee, the film follows a couple whose romantic getaway spirals into a grotesque nightmare at the hands of a masked killer with a disturbingly childlike persona.…
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His House (2020) Review: A Black History Month Spotlight on South Sudan, Survival, and the Horror of Displacement
In celebration of Black History Month, this review revisits His House (2020), Remi Weekes’ haunting exploration of displacement, survivor’s guilt, and the refugee experience. Anchored by powerful performances from Wunmi Mosaku and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, the film follows a South Sudanese couple fleeing civil war only to confront both bureaucratic hostility and supernatural terror in Britain.…
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Georgina Campbell’s 2026 Horror Double Feature: Psycho Killer & Cold Storage Review
In just weeks, Georgina Campbell headlines two 2026 horror releases — the brooding slasher Psycho Killer and the zany sci-fi creature feature Cold Storage. While neither film reinvents the genre, both showcase Campbell’s growing presence as one of horror’s most reliable modern leads. Here’s my full review of both films.
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Send Help Review: Sam Raimi Turns Workplace Toxicity Into Savage Survival Horror
What begins as a familiar corporate nightmare quickly mutates into something far more vicious. In Send Help, Sam Raimi transforms workplace toxicity, inherited power, and gendered labor into a brutal survival horror, where hierarchy collapses the moment it can no longer be performed. With Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien locked in a razor-sharp power struggle,…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review — Violence, Faith, and the True Horror of Survival
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple expands the franchise in bold and unsettling directions, shifting its focus from survival to belief, from infection to ideology. Under Nia DaCosta’s confident direction and Alex Garland’s sharp writing, the film becomes a brutal meditation on faith, violence, and the human need to assign meaning to catastrophe. Anchored by…
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Top 30 Films of 2025: A Year Defined by Risk, Reckoning, and Reinvention
A personal ranking of the 30 films that defined my 2025 — shaped by risk-taking, reinvention, and moral reckoning. From intimate character studies to bold genre experiments, these are the films that lingered, challenged expectations, and revealed where cinema felt most alive this year.
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The 25 Best Horror Films of 2025 — Ranked
Fear, flesh, and feeling collide in 2025’s most unforgettable horror films. From intimate character studies to blood-soaked spectacles, this year’s genre offerings pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and proved once again why horror remains one of cinema’s most vital storytelling spaces. Here are my 25 favorite horror films of 2025 — ranked, reflected on, and celebrated…
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The Year of Relationships: 2025 Movies That Get Love Right (and Wrong)
Where do we, as a society, currently stand when it comes to relationships? Dating? Commitment? The landscape has shifted so dramatically that it sometimes feels like we’re living in an entirely new emotional era. The openness of relationships has expanded far beyond where it once was—breaking away from antiquated, traditional notions and allowing people to…
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Terror Through the Lens: 2025’s Most Ambitious Found Footage Films
Since its horror inception with a film like Cannibal Holocaust (1980), the found footage genre has long found a welcoming and supportive home within horror itself. From there, we can trace clever and tactical marketing strategies that paved the way for The Blair Witch Project (1999), whose success relied on the persuasive and deceiving nature…
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The Black Phone 2 Review — A Haunting Return to Trauma, Faith, and Fear
Release Date: October 17, 2025 (USA) Runtime: 114 minutes (1h 54m) Rated: R — for strong violent content, gore, teen drug use, language Production Companies: Blumhouse Productions and Crooked Highway Producers: Jason Blum, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill Cinematography: Pär M. Ekberg Editing: Louise Ford Music / Composer: Atticus Derrickson Black Phone 2 (2025) Director: Scott Derrickson Writer(s): Scott Derrickson & C. Robert…