MARTYRS LANE MOVIE REVIEW If you have a yung’un comin’ of age and you want to start bringing ’em into the world of spooky movies or if you’re a fan of the lightly scary but big on atmosphere gothicy ghost stories, Shudder has a new entry just for you. “Martyrs Lane” follows a ten year […]

KANDISHA MOVIE REVIEW From director/writer team Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (the ones who brought you the truly disturbing 2007 horror classic “Inside”) comes this new tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory ways the objects of their venom. But this is no ordinary tale of a vengeful spirit killing in spectacularly gory […]

THE CALL MOVIE REVIEW In a small town somewhere in the 80s, four teens torment an elderly woman at night, throwing rocks through her windows. Edith Cranston (Lin Shaye) formerly ran a child care service out of her voluminous home but when one of her charges, the younger sister of one of the vandalizing teens, […]

VICIOUS FUN MOVIE REVIEW This was not exactly my experience of what it was like to be a huge horror nerd in the 80s. For me it was reading and re-reading Fangoria, and dreaming about being a bad-ass final lad confronting serial killing monsters. For Joel, who writes for the Fangoria stand-in mag in “Vicious […]

AN UNQUIET GRAVE MOVIE REVIEW Jamie misses his wife. A lot. A WHOLE WHOLE lot. She died about a year before the beginning of the film in a tragic car accident. She also left behind a twin sister, Ava, who also mourns her loss, albeit, maybe not to the same level of wackadoodle as Jamie. […]

SUPERDEEP MOVIE REVIEW It’s the early 80s and the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A female Russian scientist with a history of ethically dubious methods is coerced by the Soviet military into visiting a remote facility to study a mysterious contagion, which the military naturally wants to weaponize. No, we’re not talking […]

CAVEAT MOVIE REVIEW From first time feature director/writer Damian McCarthy comes this creepy and unsettling tale of mental illness, murder, labyrinthine decaying buildings, and the most evil looking rabbit in history. Jonathan French plays Issac, a man who is hired to keep watch over a young mentally ill woman whose father had recently died and […]

SKULL: THE MASK MOVIE REVIEW In this Brazilian mega-gore fest, a cursed mask is being sought by a rich German working for a Chinese conglomerate (?), and a priest and guerilla fighter who alternately crave and fear it’s rumored powers. The mask itself has its own thoughts on the matter as it’s not very long […]

CREEPSHOW SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Quick, under the blankets! The ghoul is back with the second season of “Creepshow” on Shudder and the Screener Squad is here with all the gory details. The beloved franchise that was built on camp, comedy and all things that go bump in the night is back with more famous/infamous […]

THE RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW The director of “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent” (and also the execrable recent “Hellboy”) along with his fiance, the #metoo current toppler of old powerful hollywood moguls, Charlotte Kirk, bring you this story of witchcraft. Kirk plays a woman who after her husband dies of the plague, is accused by a […]