Tag: Shudder
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5 Film Reviews: From Indie Drama to Horror Chaos and Blockbuster Spectacle
A quick catch-up on five recent films spanning indie drama, documentary storytelling, horror spectacle, and blockbuster franchise filmmaking. From intimate character studies to chaotic genre thrills and nostalgic IP-driven entertainment, this roundup explores the range of tones and styles shaping today’s cinematic landscape.
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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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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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Good Boy (2025) Review: A Haunting Horror Told Through a Dog’s Eyes
Release Date: Theatrical release (U.S.) — October 3, 2025 (festival premiere at SXSW March 10, 2025) Runtime: 73 minutes (1 hr 13 min) Rated: PG-13 — for terror, bloody images and strong language Production Companies: What’s Wrong With Your Dog? (Leonberg / Fischer indie credit) — distributed in English territories by Shudder / IFC (Independent Film…
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Ash: A Cosmic Puzzle of Paranoia
Ash (2025) Directed by: Flying Lotus Starring: Eisa González and Aaron Paul Flying Lotus conjures a hybrid of The Thing and Alien, laced with his signature psychedelic, mind-bending visuals, to deliver a stunning and terrifying tale of recollection and paranoia. While it shares a setting and motifs with those sci-fi horror staples, Ash quickly proves…