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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.

"The Privilege" REVIEW
The Privilege is the English name given to Das Privileg Die Auserwahlten, or "the privilege of the chosen." I have chosen to watch this movie, and oh boy, that doesn't feel like a privilege.
By Littlewit Philips5 years ago in Horror
Intrusion
Intrusion is a film you should watch simply because while predictable it was entertaining. The actors really get into character with this one. As well the camera and lighting of this film being great. The film simply entertained me and that is why I would recommend it. Was it the best psychological thriller out? No, however, it was a great quick movie that not only peaked my interest but held it as well.
By Nicole Renee "ItsFearHerself"5 years ago in Horror
‘Scream’ (2022) Movie Review
2022’s Scream picks up just over a decade after where Scream 4 left off, this time riffing on the new trend of “requels” (long-belated sequels to horror classics meant to reignite a franchise). After a girl named Tara (Jenna Ortega) is attacked by a Ghostface copycat, her sister Sam (Melissa Barrera), and Sam’s boyfriend, Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid), contact the now-retired Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) to help them survive someone’s obvious attempt at a requel to the infamous Woodsboro murders. And soon, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) have no choice but to get involved.
By Will Lasley5 years ago in Horror
Scream (2022) Movie Review
Scream (or 5cream, is what I like to call it!) is a satirical slasher movie that unfortunately commits the same clichés it is parodying. Although not a terrible movie, it is still effective in it's horror. There are some scary and gory kills here and there, but they are very few and far between. Instead the movie spends a little too much time trying to catch you up with characters new and old. It has a lot on it's plate! You see, this movie is an attempt to soft reboot the franchise. In typical Scream fashion; we even have a scene of the movie nerd talking about how the plot is similar to that of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Ghost Busters Afterlife, how it's essentially a remake of the first movie, but with the legacy characters from the original.
By Joseph Roy Wright5 years ago in Horror
IFC Films and Shudder Buys Andrew Semans’ Bold Sundance Hit ‘RESURRECTION’ Starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth in Career Best Performances
IFC Films and Shudder announced that they are acquiring North American rights to psychological thriller RESURRECTION written and directed by Andrew Semans (Nancy, Please), starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, and Michael Esper. The film premiered this week at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about films at the festival. IFC Films will release the film in theaters and on VOD with Shudder taking the first streaming window.
By Tammy Reese5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Long Night' is a Bore
The Long Night is a remarkably dull and derivative horror movie. This story about a couple trapped in a southern plantation home by some form of powerful demonic cult paints itself into multiple corners that it has no hope of getting out of. The villains have too much power and our protagonists are a bickering couple who have zero chemistry. So that’s fun. Then the movie builds to an ending that features character motivations that shift so fast you may get whiplash trying to keep up with the silliness.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
‘Babysitter’ Review: A Hilarious Psychosexual Horror-Comedy with Technicolor Pop
Monia Chokri's "Sitter" is a crazy satire in the body of a Technicolor bad dream. The tale of moderately aged sex bother Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-repaying women's activist sibling Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his discouraged spouse Nadine - another mother, played by Chokri herself - and their strange, young babysitter Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who appears to be resolved to enlivening their affection life, the film shows up with loud, firm energy that possibly eases up when Chorkri chooses to veer into the phantasmagorical.
By Ashu7232855 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: Dismissed
In life, most people will strive to do what it takes to get ahead in school. But it takes someone like Lucas Ward from the 2017 film ‘Dismissed’ to go as far as murdering his only friend in order to get his English teacher thrown out in order to grasp an A. Through the movie we follow Lucas Ward, a student determined to get into Harvard - no matter the cost - and his new English teacher, David Butler, who has decided not to let Lucas intimidate him. “The movie amplifies the desperation a student will go to just to get an A and only so that he can have a better life, a career that will not lead him to become a drunk loser like his father… And if anyone comes in the way of that... He's ready to kill,” writes Palvi Sharma, horror analyzer. ‘Dismissed’ is a shocking thriller movie that explores the ego and where our own lines are drawn in the superego sand, while holding many similar themes to classic horror films.
By Charleigh Frederick5 years ago in Horror
Compartment No. 6 Movie (2022) Review
It's wonderful all the time to have a film start off with a piece of music you like, so the sound of Roxy Music's "Adoration Is The Drug" over the initial credits of "Compartment No. 6" carried a simple grin to my face. However, as the film slice to a crazy/energetic party scene in a Moscow level, went to generally by individuals apparently in their thirties, I needed to oppose briefly.
By T Krishna5 years ago in Horror
The Last Thing Mary Saw Movies (2022) Review
Edoardo Vitaletti's presentation include "The Last Thing Mary Saw," set in the midst of a New England Puritan people group in 1843, is a contextual analysis in how to accomplish more with less. This film about illegal love between two young Puritan young ladies unfurls in and around a modest bunch of constructions that appear to have been worked during the time wherein the story is set. David Kruta's camerawork seems to utilize just normal light, even in scenes where candles give the main brightening. The entertainers frequently talk in murmurs, or in peaceful, even tones intended to conceal feeling. It has a you-are-there feeling that is surprising in low-spending plan period pictures.
By T Krishna5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Nocturna Side A' and 'Nocturna Side B'
After watching Noctura Side A and Nocturna Side B, I sent a message to my Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast Co-Host, Bob Zerull, that indicated what I had watched and that I would have trouble sleeping that night. So haunting, engrossing, and agonizing is the Side A-Side B duo of Nocturna movies in their psychological horrors and soul aching sadness that I was unsure I was capable of sleep anymore. Nocturna Side A and Nocturna Side B are the kind of movies that etch themselves into your subconscious.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Curse of La Patasola'
Some movies are just impossible to care about. They may have a scene or two that is pretty good or even a good idea or two in the storytelling and yet, they fail to engage your mind. The Curse of La Patasola is such a movie. Despite there being at least one legitimately good scene, the film from director A.J Jones never rises above mediocre to downright terrible. The low budget provides some excuses for the low rent nature but it can’t excuse the overall throwaway aspect of The Curse of La Patasola.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror