There’s something almost admirable about how Chum announces exactly what you’re in for from the moment it begins. The opening credits crawl along under a flat, uninterested voiceover that sounds like it would rather be anywhere else. It sets the tone for a shark movie that never finds urgency, never builds tension, and rarely feels like it wants to exist beyond fulfilling its premise.
Read MoreMetal, Mayhem, and 4K Madness: Revisiting The Devil’s Candy
I remember when The Devil’s Candy first dropped back in 2017. I liked it. Solid 3-star territory at the time. But revisiting it now, especially in this stacked new Second Sight limited edition, it hits harder. This thing probably deserved more love from me the first go-around.
Read MorePitfall: Great Kills, Questionable Choices
Pitfall doesn’t waste time pretending it’s anything other than a gnarly survival slasher. It throws you straight into the chaos, opens with some impressively nasty gore, and makes it very clear early on that this is a film that wants to make you squirm. For a while, it works.
Read MoreMermaid Is a Sunburnt Fairy Tale That Never Quite Comes Alive
Mermaid opens with Tom Arnold rambling his way into the movie like he just wandered on set and they decided to keep the camera rolling. It immediately sets the tone. Loose. Slightly improvised. Familiar faces everywhere.
Read MoreCosmic Kink With Feelings: Addison Heimann’s Touch Me Is Horny Horror Done Right
There are films that dare you to tap out, and then there are films that dare you to stay open. Touch Me very firmly belongs to the latter category. Addison Heimann’s psychosexual sci-fi horror comedy is loud, horny, emotionally sincere, and deeply strange, and somehow all of those things coexist without the movie collapsing under the weight of its own ambition.
Read MoreRenny Harlin Makes Plane Crashes Scary Again in Deep Water
Renny Harlin is back, and not quietly. Deep Water feels like the kind of movie Hollywood stopped making somewhere between post 9/11 seriousness and the rise of sanitized CG spectacle. It is big, pulpy, unapologetically intense, and more vicious than it has any right to be.
Read MoreContent: Found Footage for the Terminally Online
Adam Meilech’s Content is the kind of screenlife movie that makes you wonder why you ever doubted the format in the first place. This thing doesn’t just use phones and laptops as a gimmick. It weaponizes them.
Read MoreBeyond Sasquatch and the Monster Inside the Mind
Beyond Sasquatch is not the movie its title promises, and that turns out to be both its greatest strength and its biggest gamble. On paper, this sounds like a late-night creature feature mashup. Astronauts. Jupiter. Bigfoot. But Gregory Hatanaka quickly pulls the rug out from under those expectations.
Read MoreTrapped Minds and Loaded Guns: Sasquatch Within
There is a certain kind of indie horror that does not care if you are comfortable. Sasquatch Within is exactly that kind of movie. It locks you in a room, throws away the key, and then dares you to sit with the noise in your head.
Read MoreFrankie, Maniac Woman Is Exactly What the Title Promises
Pierre Tsigaridis and Two Witches Films kick the door in with Frankie, Maniac Woman, a slasher that starts strong and never pretends to be polite. The opening kill hits hard, letting you know right away this thing is not here to play. It immediately oozes personality, attitude, and gore.
Read MoreNight Terrors You Can Own: Dream Eater Collector’s Edition
Found footage is a crowded graveyard. Every year, something crawls out of it claiming to be the next Blair Witch, and most of the time it just trips over night vision and screams into the void. Dream Eater, presented by Eli Roth’s The Horror Section, actually earns its place in the conversation, and this Blu-ray and DVD Collector’s Edition makes a convincing case that it deserves a spot on your physical media shelf, too.
Read MoreWhere Greed Goes to Freeze: A Visit to Souls Chapel
There is something inherently unsettling about a horror film rooted in a real place people still avoid. Souls Chapel leans hard into that energy, drawing inspiration from a little Kentucky church wrapped in whispered legends, occult rumors, and local fear strong enough to survive a century. The result is a snowbound Southern Gothic horror tale that plays small, strange, and deliberately patient.
Read More