Tag: Horror
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‘Backrooms’ – Kane Parsons Turns Internet Creepiness into Nightmare Fuel
Backrooms turns liminal internet horror into a creepy, claustrophobic nightmare led by strong performances and genuinely haunting imagery.
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‘Obsession’ Review – Manospheric Incel Horror Parable is Right on Time
Curry Barker’s Obsession twists male wish fulfillment into a disturbing horror film powered by anxiety, strong performances, and a haunting emotional core.
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come – And Here We Go!
Following right on the 2019 original, READY OR NOT 2 HERE I COME ups the stakes as Grace and her sister are pulled into a deadly second round of Hide and Seek.
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A24’s ‘Undertone’ is Horror with the Sound Turned Up but it Doesn’t Slap
Undertone has great sound design and a strong lead, but slow pacing and weak payoff make this horror experiment fall flat.
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Dollface by Lindy Ryan: A Campy, Bloodsoaked Suburban Satire
Lindy Ryan’s Dollface is a campy, blood-soaked suburban satire about a horror author who moves to Jersey when a masked killer starts taking out other moms
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Marionette Fueled Tween-Friendly Terror
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 offers kid-friendly horror with deeper lore, darker visuals, and strong performances. Fans and younger viewers will enjoy this intense, story-driven sequel.
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Episode Appetizer: This Monster Wants to Eat Me – Episode 1
This Monster Wants to Eat Me is the sad, slow burn anime you didn’t ask for (you might still want to watch anyway)
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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ is a Strong, Scary Farewell for Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson
The Conjuring: Last Rites delivers a haunting, faith-filled finale for Ed and Lorraine Warren. Michael Chaves directs a well-paced, scare-packed entry that ties the franchise together while leaving room for more. Strong performances and smart…
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REVISITED: M3GAN
A woman creates a new artificial life-form as a toy for her orphaned niece…and bad things ensue.
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I Wanted to Love 28 Years Later. And I Did. Until the Last 5 Minutes.
I don’t think I’ll recommend it to others, and I’ll let them enjoy their new thing, but for me, this is a skip and something I wish I hadn’t wasted my time on.
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BIG MONSTER FEELINGS Panel at LightReel Film Fest 2025
Hear the BIG MONSTER FEELINGS panel, recorded live from DC’s LightReel Film Festival.
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‘The Life of Chuck’ Loves the Lights Out
Mike Flanagan brings a faithful touch to The Life of Chuck, adapted from Stephen King’s If It Bleeds, then Tom Hiddleston and Jacob Tremblay make it dance
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Bring Her Back: A Gripping Supernatural Horror That Left Me Unfulfilled and Disturbed
I knew from the poster that the film Bring Her Back was not a film for me.
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‘The Last of Us’ S2, ‘Sinners’, ‘The Amateur’, ‘Warfare’, ‘G20’, ‘Lazarus’
The Last of Us S2 has taken over our Rioters’ brains this week, who provide us with a spoilerific breakdown of the first episode. They also get into Sinners, The Amateur, Warfare, G20, and Lazarus,…
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Same Story, Different Feel: HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2 Softens the Game’s Brutality
The Last of Us season two doesn’t maintain the quality of season one, but it is still immensely engaging and will have people talking this year.
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‘Love, Death + Robots’ is Back + Ready for Action
Dino-gladiators, devious cats, and chaotic household appliances—that’s right, it’s the return of Love, Death + Robots!
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At Last, a Unicorn Slasher Flick – ‘Death of a Unicorn’
The good news is that Unicorns aren’t real. The bad news is that Unicorns aren’t real.
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Ayo Edebiri Shines in A24’s Twisted Tale ‘Opus’
Toxic Fandom plus politics is a wild mix, ain’t it?
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The Monkey: A Stephen King Adaptation That Delivers Gore and Laughs
The Monkey was cool, and while not really my thing, I can’t say I wasn’t entertained and that there wasn’t serious craft put into this movie.
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Rom-Com Meets Slasher Flick—And It Works: ‘Heart Eyes’ Carves Out Its Own Lane
Heart Eyes is a very fun and inventive movie coming out on Valentine’s Day.
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Universal’s ‘Wolf Man’ Struggles to Revive Its Monster Legacy with a Confusing, Tame Reboot
Wolf Man was an uninteresting and lacking monster movie and it starts the year off weakly.
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Here There Be Monsters: ‘The Devourer’ is a Chilling Pirate Adventure on the High Seas
I’ve always had a healthy respect and fear of the ocean; this book is why.
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‘NOSFERATU’ – A Twisted Game of Beauty and Beast
Welcome, seekers of terror. As the accursed sun sets, let us light our lanterns and follow this gothic tale of obsession known as Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU
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Mr. Crocket: Hulu’s Creepy New Horror Villain Mixes 90s Nostalgia with Supernatural Terror
Mr. Crocket is a good Halloween horror movie and a concept to start a cool Hulu franchise if it’s given the opportunity.
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‘Hysteria!’ is a Wild Ride Through the Gruesome Spectrum of Satanic Panic
A lot of other TV shows with TV budgets should take notes—you don’t always need CGI and expensive special effects to have a good time.
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Episode Appetizer: Adult Swim’s ‘Uzumaki’ Ep 2
After episode 1 of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, if you thought it couldn’t get worse, episode 2 says…HOLD MY BEER.
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Episode Appetizer: ADULT SWIM’s ‘Uzumaki’ Ep 1
In this four-episode series, you can expect: building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully horrendous body horror—no one combines those themes better than Junji Ito
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The Front Room: Brandy Shines in a Darkly Humorous Psychological Horror
I didn’t know what to expect when I saw The Front Room by Sam and Max Eggers from A24, which stars Brandy Norwood, most commonly known as just Brandy. I just wanted to see this…
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Awkward Encounters Turn Sinister in Blumhouse’s Entertaining ‘Speak No Evil’
So Blumhouse just gave me a very entertaining experience at the theater with their new film Speak No Evil. A remake of a Danish film from 2022 starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi &…
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Junji Ito Uzumaki Trailer: A Contamination of Spirals
Junji Ito fans get ready to eat.
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Longlegs
Longlegs – if you don’t know what this is, don’t feel bad; the marketing is very obtuse in trying to reach the public consciousness. I heard fellow critics being very excited about seeing this film…
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MaXXXine
(This review will have spoilers for Ti West’s X.) Ti West just gave A24 its first trilogy and franchise with MaXXXine. The third film in the series is a direct sequel to the first film,…
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A Quiet Place: Day One
So A Quiet Place, the surprise survival horror film franchise that exploded onto the world in 2018, starring Emily Blunt and directed and co-written by John Krasinski, took audiences on a ride. The anticipated sequel…
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The Watchers
If folks have an issue with nepotism in the show business, this film The Watchers isn’t going to help quell those issues. The supernatural horror film is directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, who is the…
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The First Omen
I’m not always the biggest fan of horror films. For me, horror only works two ways: extraordinarily effective or utterly hilarious. I’m not really the best person to see these films in the theater because…
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True Detective: Night Country
Ten years ago, back when media was simpler than what we deal with now, HBO debuted a series that literally had me in a chokehold – True Detective by newcomer Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Joji…
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Cypher
Tierra Whack is one of the current era’s more exciting and talented new Rap recording artists. A woman artist in a very unwelcoming field to women, most of the time, she’s currently blazing a path…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s is the newest horror movie from Blumhouse and the latest video game adaptation in a year full of them. Based on a point-and-click survival horror game that built a huge following…
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The Exorcist: Believer
It’s hard to try and make a new movie in a long-standing and beloved franchise. Especially when the first movie is a classic, and especially in the horror genre. Then you have something like The…
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The Other Black Girl
Spinning easily from horror to comedy, to satire, to thriller with “I know that’s right” writing, if you’re not engaged by The Other Black Girl you must be on melatonin.
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
I think ever since Bram Stoker’s book Dracula was released, it has had a hold on our imaginations. We’ve seen so many interpretations and retelling stories using this character and also that of the vampire.…
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The Blackening
You know, for the longest time within horror, the only two Black people to survive were two legendary rappers, LL Cool J, and Ice Cube. Maybe their personas made those filmmakers and the viewers at…
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Movie Review: Prey
Prey is an awesome restart of the Predator franchise featuring a fantastic new heroine with a star-making performance.
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X
Basically: In 1979 a group of people rent out a house on an old farm from two old people to make a porno but none of it goes well. I’m pretty open about the fact that…
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Geek Girl Riot Talks with Jay Ali, And Keith David, Reviews ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
Geek Girl Riot’s got a trifecta of marvelous for you today: Our Rioters speak with Jay Ali from Marvel’s Daredevil S3, and Keith David about everything, then get into The Haunting of Hill House.
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Geek Girl Riot Gets Into New York Comic Con 2018 with Titans, Daredevil, Sabrina + Beyond
This past weekend the geeky announcements came in strong from NYCC 2018, so our Rioters are here to do what they do best…talk all about it!