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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 […]

FRIED BARRY MOVIE REVIEW Barry’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he gets abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, they return him…Now, he’s a gross, creepy, mean-spirited, strung-out asshole piloted by one of the aliens, who steers Barry through the seediest sides of Cape Town on a series of drug-fueled, […]

DEADHOUSE DARK SERIES REVIEW This collection of six short films are gathered together under a single banner, telling stories at least tangentially related (sometimes) to modern technology and sorta at points lap each other. Ok, so lukewarm intro, I know, and I’m the first to admit that the short film horror format rarely works for […]

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL REVIEW Shudder exclusive “The Boys from County Hell” is a horror-comedy with a uniquely Irish twist on the vampire genre. Six Mile Hill is a remote village whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker once spent the night there while researching vampires for his classic novel, Dracula. According to […]

THE BANISHING MOVIE REVIEW Based extremely loosely on the hauntings at Borley Rectory, often referred to as ‘the most haunted house in England”, this Shudder original follows Marianne, a ‘fallen’ woman who, along with her young child she had out of wedlock, was ‘saved’ by her new husband, the Reverend Linus. Assigned the palatial MORLEY […]

THE POWER MOVIE REVIEW While at first glance, this horror film’s generic sounding title elicits a bit of a shrug, it’s considerably more insidious and clever than that: The Power has multiple meanings in this 1970’s in England during electricity blackouts, new nurse’s first night in a crumbling and very haunted hospital movie. Just the […]