Horror

Eileen, Iranian writer/director Alireza Khatami would like a word. Drowning under the excess of religious hegemony and patriarchal excess, Khatami’s nightmarish, disorienting The Things You Kill is as much about killing off the parts of ourselves as it is about the persons in our lives who exist solely as living, breathing reminders of society’s perennial

Sometimes when you’re out there, swiping on the apps, you run into the guy of your dreams as well as a supernatural secret. It happens to the best of us! In their new film The Dead Thing, director Elric Kane and co-writer Webb Wilcoxen imagine such a scenario in their fascinating and unique take on

Grace Glowicki as Gravedigger in DEAD LOVER – 
Credit: Rhayne Vermette Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is a crunchy, stylish, and radical shadow play centered on the classical themes of love, death, and transformation. Shot on 16mm Kodak film in a Toronto studio, the film consciously evokes the intimacy of Black Box theater, an aesthetic rarely

I think it is fair to say that this January has not been kind to any of us. This week especially brought plenty of headlines that made most of us feel queasy. Between the bouts of nausea and anxiety, I realized this week’s streaming guide needed to have a theme that captures these feelings of

Photo credit: Marcel Zyskind While no-budget splatter-house fairytale reboots like Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Cinderella’s Curse, and Neverland Nightmare continue to carve out a profitable mini-industry of uninspired schlock, it’s all the more refreshing to encounter an expertly crafted, thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical

Image courtesy of ‘The Today Show’ NBC Werewolves are finally getting their due with the hotly-anticipated release of Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man. Our own Sharai Bohannon rounded up some of the best streaming right now, and if there is any justice in this world, we’ll soon find ourselves in a werewolf renaissance. Listen, I love

Get ready to watch Tarsem Singh’s debut feature The Cell unlike you’ve ever seen it! Thanks to ARROW Video, this cult classic is getting a 4K special edition, including a special director’s cut. Get ready to go on a wild journey through the bizarre worlds inside the mind of a killer. In the film, When

I love shark movies. I especially love bad shark movies. Those toothy B-movies that cut straight to the bone with bonkers gore and incredulously conceived sharks—ghost sharks and Christmas sharks galore! Not to sound pessimistic, but in a post-Jaws world, we have decades of evidence to sufficiently prove that nothing is going to top Spielberg’s monumental achievement. Every other

Image courtesy of Shudder From the man who gave us WolfCop comes a new vision of terror, this time from the wrestling ring. Writer and director Lowell Dean is back with Dark Match, a film that capitalizes not only on nostalgia but an undying love for wrestling and the cult of personalities that come with

A critically acclaimed effort from boutique distributor A24 currently sits as the most-watched film on HBO Max. The feature in question, A Different Man, is an amalgamation of genres that can’t easily be classified. It is part thriller, contains elements of sci-fi and body horror, and even features some comedic overtones. It’s encouraging to see

Author Clay McLeod Chapman is a modern horror maestro. From Ghost Eaters to his latest novel Wake Up And Open Your Eyes, Chapman knows how to craft terror that matches exactly what scares us in the 2020s (and there’s A LOT to scare us, especially this year). Thankfully, Chapman shows no sign of slowing down

I’m a child of the ‘80s who grew up on a steady diet of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I love The Jetsons, The Flintstones, The Snorks, Jonny Quest, The Smurfs, and of course, Scooby-Doo. The original incarnation, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, featured a simple setup that recycled the same basic plot for each episode. But I first experienced the show at the right age

Is there a need to watch Hereditary more than once? I’m still reeling from my inaugural viewing and I’m not sure I want to revisit the flick just yet. However, not everyone feels that way. I recognize that some of you are gluttons for punishment and enjoy experiencing feelings of total devastation on repeat. If

Love it or hate it, content creators have become an essential part of internet culture over the last few years. Whether you turn to a blog for recipes, learn new skills from TikTok, or have a favorite vlogger who dives deep into your favorite topics, consuming media that fits under this umbrella is almost part

Philip Noyce’s Dead Calm is one of the last century’s best thrillers. Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, and Billy Zane are a heavenly trio, and the high-seas tension is some of the sweetest around. Last year’s Netflix hit Nowhere, in which a woman was trapped inside a floating cargo container, culled considerable suspense from its high-concept premise. There should

Just securing a ‘certified fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes is a major accomplishment in and of itself. Achieving that distinction and cracking the platform’s list of the top 200 horror movies of all time is an honor bestowed on only a select few. Writer/director Leigh Whannell is among the elite filmmakers who have achieved both

The thoughtful folks at Rotten Tomatoes have worked tirelessly to compile an exhaustive list of the top 200 horror films of all time. The ranking is based on critical reception, audience score, total number of reviews, and the film’s year of release. The list represents some truly influential efforts across a variety of sub-genres. As

Guillermo del Toro is one of my favorite filmmakers working today. Not to mention, Nicolas Cage is an actor I openly idolize. So, getting the chance to report that del Toro previously championed an artistically rendered nightmare of a horror film starring Cage is what you might call a plum assignment for yours truly. A

Am I alone in thinking that influencer culture is super weird? The idea that people invest in the comings and goings of perfect strangers who live seemingly perfect lives on social media gives me the creeps. No one is actually that perfect. No one. It seems filmmaker Kurtis David Harder (Spiral 2019) agrees with my

Clint Eastwood has a proven track record of delivering feature films that yield impressive returns at the box office. With that in mind, it’s strange to think that his latest effort, Juror #2, almost went direct-to-streaming. Warner Brothers eventually agreed to play the picture in a whopping 35 US theaters before debuting the project on

I don’t know about you, but I spent a lot of time playing the original Until Dawn to see all the different endings and how they changed the game’s outcome. Now, we’re about to get David F. Sandberg’s take on the iconic game with the official Until Dawn movie adaptation! And from the official trailer,

Courtesy of Lionsgate/Saban Rob Zombie previously enjoyed success as the frontman of White Zombie, broke out as a solo artist, and then transitioned into filmmaking. He’s a versatile creator and a jack of all trades. But there’s one trade to which this jack won’t soon return. I’m talking about television. Zombie tried his hand at

Coming this March from Blumhouse and director Jaume Collet-Serra is The Woman In The Yard. And if the chilling new trailer is to be believed, it’s going to be a weird and terrifying ride. In the film: Ramona is a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband. Seriously

Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch for many, and both Tommy Lee Jones and Pierce Brosnan duked it out with killer volcanoes in Volcano and Dante’s Peak respectively. Disaster movies used to be the juggernauts for

Welcome to The Overlooked Motel, a place where under-seen and unappreciated films get their moment in the spotlight. I hope you enjoy your stay here and find the accommodations suitable. Now, please take a seat and make yourself comfortable. I have some misbehaving guests to ‘correct.’  Watch the latest episode: The queer horror landscape was pretty desolate in

Written and directed by Leslie Stevens, 1966’s Incubus is a weird piece of horror history. It’s atmospheric, even meditative at times. It’s gothic, it’s a fairy tale, it’s folk horror and it’s a morality play. It reaches toward Bergman, though it doesn’t quite get there. Still, it’s easy to get lulled into the dreamscape of

My name is Sharai, and I love werewolves. I am painfully aware that not all werewolf films are created equal. Regardless, these movies still bring me an indescribable level of joy. Whether it’s classics like The Beast Must Die, 90s campy fare like Cursed, funny mysteries like Werewolves Within, or whatever Silver Bullet was doing,

In 2024, we saw an incredible year of both indie and mainstream horror alike, showing off both a festering rage and a growing sense of playfulness in the face of that rage. And that trend doesn’t show any signs of stopping in 2025. This year’s release calendar is already shaping up to be an incredible

Dating in the 2020s isn’t easy, to put it mildly. It’s a digital horrorshow with ghouls around every corner. Such a horrorshow is bursting with material for horror filmmakers to tell stories about the dangers of finding love in the modern age. Director Mark Gantt‘s new film Soul Mates is one such tale, though with

Nicole Kidman is one of the most fearless performers of her generation. I used to reject “fearless,” not quite sure what it meant at best, pretty convinced it was misogynistic at worst (see how regularly fearless is applied to older women). In Kidman’s case, fearless is a positive, because few performers take quite as many risks. Babygirl (not