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DEATH VALLEY MOVIE REVIEW A squad of mercenaries sent in to extract a scientist from a secured bunker/lab, while fighting off opposing forces, a horrific creature, and infected humans, unravels a twisty conspiracy involving weaponized science, and maybe something supernatural. On which system did you play this video game? Trick question… it’s not a game. […]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR MOVIE REVIEW Eva is a paraplegic ex-dancer that is gifted an advent calendar from her bestie who scored it from a weird shop in Munich on a lark. (Don’t get objects from weird shops while on vacation, just don’t do it!) Unbeknownst to them, this calendar will make them rue the day […]

HORROR NOIRE MOVIE REVIEW You may not know this (heavy sarcasm)… but America has a messy history when it comes to giving minorities “equitable treatment,” and that’s stating the facts mildly. “Horror Noire” (based on a book which inspired a documentary) is an anthology of 6 short stories, from black directors and screenwriters, all revolving […]

THE MEDIUM MOVIE REVIEW From director Banjong Pisanthanakun (“Shutter”) and producer Na Hong-jin (“The Wailing”) comes “The Medium”, a found footage horror movie about a documentary film crew following a shaman in the Isan region of Thailand. The shaman Nim is the latest woman in her family to be chosen as the medium for a […]

V/H/S 94 MOVIE REVIEW The popular ‘found footage’ anthology series returns with four new horror shorts (plus a wraparound segment, of course) directed by some leading voices in modern horror and some up and comers. We get storm sewer dwelling rat men that are MUCH more nightmarish then you’re probably imagining, a lone woman working […]

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. […]