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CASTLE FREAK MOVIE REVIEW This remake of the 90s Stuart Gordon horror film that was SLIGHTLY adjacent to Lovecraft, takes the basic elements: couple inherits castle, blind girl, monster hiding inside the walls… and doesn’t do much to make one glad there’s an update. But then…a thing happens. A HOLY SH*T thing. And from then […]

ANYTHING FOR JACKSON MOVIE REVIEW I honestly don’t know how Satan keeps up with the Christmas demand. It must be exhausting. Even grandma and grandpa are getting into the act in this Shudder original horror-comedy, “Anything For Jackson”. After their adorbs grandson dies, Audrey and Henry realize they’ll do anything to get him back: more […]

LINGERING MOVIE REVIEW In this Korean horror, a young woman finds herself stuck with her toddler little sister years after their mother’s death and she takes the child to a hotel run by a friend and former employer of her mother’s who has volunteered care. Soon, it is clear that something spooky is going on, […]

BLOOD VESSEL MOVIE REVIEW A group of survivors of a sunk hospital ship during WWII find in their hour of desperation a seemingly empty Nazi ship…empty except for all the weird corpses all around it. What happened here? Can an assortment of by country-stereotyped characters use their powers of cliche to defeat whatever evil waits […]

MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU TOO MOVIE REVIEW Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto (“The Night Comes For Us”) returns to the VERY “Evil Dead”-ish world he created in 2018 with “May The Devil Take You” with this sequel. Survivor of the initial demonic event, Alfie (Chelsea Islan) finds herself and her younger sister abducted by a […]

32 MALASANA STREET MOVIE REVIEW This Spanish horror film follows a family who puts everything they have into buying a large apartment in the big city, only to discover that the apartment’s previous resident isn’t going anywhere…spiritually speaking. And even worse, said resident has her eyes on their young son. With shades of “Poltergeist”, “The […]