Author: Jayson Laniba
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
There have been many horror films that tackle the theme of trauma in recent years, but this one really pushes things a bit further. Traumatika is a 2024 horror film directed by Pierre Tsigaridis. It delves into the different forms of childhood trauma, from witnessing violence to physical and even sexual abuse. The film stars
Indonesian horror has been receiving some attention in recent years, mostly thanks to some pretty good entries from the country. So it is not surprising that the said country’s highest-grossing local film is from the horror genre. KKN di Desa Penari currently holds the title of the highest-grossing film in Indonesian history. Sadly, the film’s
People who fear centipedes or those with Scolopendrphobia or Chilopodophobia should better steer away from this latest Thai monster flick… unless they want to get nightmares for days. But for those looking for some harmless thrills, then this new creature feature is worth checking out. Penned and directed by Chalit Krileadmongkon and Pakphum Wongjinda, this
In 2009, House of Wax’s Jaume Collet-Serra gave us the modest hit Orphan starring a pre-Conjuring era Vera Farmiga as a mother who, after the death of their unborn child, agrees to adopt a nine-year-old girl from an orphanage who turns out to be a psychopathic woman posing as a child. Years later, the film