Author: Jayson Laniba
Is there a job that’s actually worth dying for? Director Jake Myers takes on the modern grind culture with this darkly humorous body horror about a mind-altering drink that makes employees work themselves to death. Early on in the film, a young woman is seen working overtime at a mysterious office when she gets a
Imagine waking up one day to a bedroom unfamiliar to you, with a stranger lying on the bed beside you. Sounds like a normal Saturday morning? Well, what if that stranger claims to be your husband, yet you haven’t even met that person ever in your entire life until now? Jessica Rothe finds herself in such
Evilenko is a 2004 English-language Italian true crime horror/drama written and directed by David Grieco in his first feature-length film. Malcolm McDowell plays the Soviet Union’s most notorious serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, in this Italian crime horror thriller from 2004, hitting 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on February 25 from Unearthed Films. In the film,
I am a fan of found footage films, but let’s be honest, they’re mostly hit or miss. Only a few actually stand out among the sea of “Blair Witch” copycats over the years. However, sometimes you just stumble upon a little gem unexpectedly. From “Hell House LLC,” “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum,” and the more recent “Skinamarink,”
I love good old-fashioned mockumentaries, especially when they’re done right. Lake Mungo, Ghostwatch, Hell House LLC. and Savageland are just some of my personal favorite mockumentaries—these films manage to create a sense of reality while delivering some pretty effective scares. I still feel creeped out even after seeing these films multiple times. So when I
When the first trailer for the 2022 horror flick, Smile starring Sosie Bacon came out, I initially dismissed it as just another forgettable horror flick thanks to its generic title. But lo and behold, it was one of the best horror flicks to come out that year. Two years after the release of Parker Finn’s
There have been plenty of Irish horror flicks in the past, but John Farrelly’s latest film, Ah Taibhse (The Ghost) marks a first. Marketed as the first and only horror movie produced entirely in the Irish language, it focuses on a father and his daughter hired as Winter caretakers for an isolated Georgian Mansion, only
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been a popular trend amongst sci-fi horror films these days, from Lars Klevberg’s 2019 reboot of Child’s Play to the more recent Gerard Johnstone’s 2023 horror-comedy hit, M3GAN. In this latest film from S.K. Dale, Subservience (2024), we follow an artificially intelligent gynoid/feminine humanoid robot who develops self-awareness and gains
The “World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator” returns to the big screen for the fourth time in this American superhero horror film from director Brian Taylor (Crank, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024). Based on the Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others comic book series by Mike Mignola and marking the second reboot
Films often feature Halloween as one of the most popular holiday settings. And this time, it gets a unique, Gaelic twist in this supernatural slasher from American writer-director Matt Sampere. A reworking of Sampere’s earlier 2021 horror short film of the same title, serves as his full-length feature debut. It retains many ideas from the