As a review journalist, I don’t usually use trigger warnings. However, due to the incredibly immersive nature of The Shade (2023), I feel it necessary to warn viewers who are sensitive to the subject of suicide. If you or anyone you know are experiencing a mental health crisis, please dial 988 in Canada, or refer

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Would you answer the door for a stranger and let them into your home? The year 2024 has been abound with diverse horror releases, ranging from a slasher largely observed from the killer’s perspective, a film featuring a child vampire ballerina, and a crime thriller showcasing Nicholas Cage in a way that we never could

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Director Charles Band

  If you’re a fan of B-movies, you’re already a fan of Charles Band’s Full Moon Features. Ghoulies, the Puppet Master series, Gingerdead Man, Subspecies…Full Moon Features is synonymous with low-budget comedic horror. With 399 films under his belt, Mr. Band decided it was time to launch a new brand that would appeal to a

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In today’s world of flashy graphics and CGI, audiences have become immune to fantastical horror, pushing some writers to create content to test our boundaries with the extreme. In The Moor (2023), Paul Thomas and director Chris Cronin take us in the opposite direction, back to a place where our hindbrains are triggered to watch

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  Chris Nash’s In A Violent Nature (2024) will get under your skin and claw at your brain from the inside, leaving you begging to look away, but you won’t. You’ll stick with every moment of this film, literally glued to the maniac’s side, right up until the last drop of blood has been spilled.

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Tahoe Joe 2

“Once More Into The Breach” Tahoe Joe 2: The Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Conspiracy (2024) follows indie filmmakers Michael Rock and Dillon Brown of Horror Dadz Productions as they return to the wilderness surrounding Lake Tahoe in search of Becca (Becca Anne), a missing TikTok influencer. Their first found footage film Tahoe Joe (2022) inspired a

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Some Critters Aren’t Meant To Be Kept As Pets “After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet, and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.” Indie creature features are a dime a dozen, and usually land somewhere between

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The Woods of Hawthorne, Illinois are Haunted… “I wanted to make a horror movie that toys with your expectations. ‘Hag’ starts as one thing and then morphs into something totally different. There’s a lot of twists and turns, so hopefully our audience has fun with that. This is a film about three women making a

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The Fearway

If we were asked to close our eyes and picture a desert highway, most of us would envision the same thing: Route 66. The infamous east-west American highway has been something of an enigma for almost 100 years. It served as an escape route for those migrating west during the 1930s shortly after its construction,

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lets make our teacher have a miscarriage

Eichi Sato, known better in the following years for his work on the live-action adaptations of Lychee Hikari Club (2016) and Miso Misou (2018), found his way to shock us from the very beginning with his debut movie. Let’s Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club (2011) is a film with many flaws, but its

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