Category: Horror
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The Long Walk Review: Walk against the machine
THE LONG WALK (2025) The Long Walk takes place in an alternate 1970’s post-Vietnam America, where every year 50 teenage boys, each via lottery and personal decision, represents his home state and walks until only one remains as the whole macabre spectacle is televised for all to witness. The winner is granted riches in a…
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Monster: The Ed Gein Story Review: A mamma’s boy in the making
MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025) Multiple things can be true at once. Just ask Ed Gein. He’s been dead since 1984, so that’s not possible, nonetheless his perspective is the subject of the third installment of the Monster anthology series, following Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez…
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Together Review: Cut and fun
TOGETHER (2025) Once again, in my opinion, we have an example of a movie promotional campaign giving away too much. Now I am one of those people who hates movie trailers. A writer (or writers) often go to a lot of trouble to create a narrative that aims to intrigue us viewers so that we…
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Weapons Review: Of mass abduction
WEAPONS (2025) For those of you who crave and seek out unique, genre-bending movies, I recommend the 2022 film Barbarian (2022) as it is one of the most distinct films I’d seen in a minute. I excessively recommend it to this day. And so I was excited for writer/director Zach Cregger’s follow-up, and man, it…
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The Shrounds Review: A kiss cam from a rose on the grave
THE SHROUDS (2024) As a lifelong David Cronenberg fan (and fellow Canadian/ex-Torontonian), I’m obviously and always up for his intersection of psychological and technological body horror that he aided and abetted and elevated. The beautifying of the grotesque is at the foundation of his work, whether it takes the form of well lit mutations, infection…
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Jurassic World Rebirth Review: Second born
JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025) No. It is not as good as the original. But it is the second best in the franchise. And…to quote Jennifer Aniston from Picture Perfect (1997), “…that ain’t bad”. It’s great actually, once you get past it not being the first and best. Director Gareth Edwards has fashioned a fun adventure…
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28 Years Later Review: Maul things come
28 YEARS LATER (2025) I’m not a fan of this franchise. I said it. Mind you it was love at first sight for Cillian Murphy 28 years ago and I liked the shots taken at its cowardly protagonist (Robert Carlyle, also love) in 28 Weeks Later (2007). It’s just that I find the intermittent and…
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Dangerous Animals Review: What’s scarier, sharks or serial killers?
DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025) Yo…pssst. Do you like shark movies? Ya? How about serial killer movies? Alright, cool. Well have I got the film for you. Sean Byrne’s – The Loved Ones (2009) – Dangerous Animals is an effective mash-up of these two beloved horror sub-genres that also share the bond of always channeling into survival…
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Fear Street: Prom Queen Review – No fear and loathing the hair
FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN (2025) Thus far, I’ve enjoyed Netflix’s Fear Street (2021-) series. The makers are having fun with the horror, throwback, wink wink, not-so-scary, slew of successive and creatively gross murders genre. And I am here for it. What’s more, Fear Street: Prom Queen is the 80s instalment, the very decade I started…
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The Monkey Review: Opposable thumbs down
THE MONKEY (2025) Director, writer and actor Osgood Perkins – Longlegs (2024), The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) – adapts the Stephen King short story The Monkey (1980) into a horror comedy? This should work right? Well the concept worked well enough to entice me to watch it. Unfortunately, killing off numerous undeveloped characters indiscriminately, Final Destination (2000-)…
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Heart Eyes review: My heart will go on
HEART EYES (2025) I like this movie. But I don’t like like it, if you know what I mean. I like that it’s a romantic-comedy-horror. A great idea that pleases both the blood thirsty romantic cynics and horror hopefuls. I like how the gender roles are swapped, with a female protagonist (Olivia Holt) who is…
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Infested Review: Has legs
INFESTED (2023) Infested is not only a solid creature feature, but it also does a noteworthy job realizing a unique mixture of residents and relationships within a Parisian lower-income suburban high rise, all while they fend off thousands of ever adapting poisonous spiders AND the police who’ve quarantined them. Similar to the Rec franchise (2007-2014),…
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Wolf Man Review: Wolf Dad
WOLF MAN (2025) The werewolf horror subgenre is an oft-made favourite and I’m always willing to give ’em a go. Thankfully moviemakers have made numerous attempts, producing both good: The Wolf Man (1941), An American Werewolf In London (1981), Dog Soldiers (2002), and not so good: Underworld (2003), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Van…
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Nosferatu Review: Nailed it
NOSFERATU (2024) Robert Eggers is one of the greatest and most interesting directors working today. His track record speaks for itself: The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019) and The Northman (2022). Needless to say, I was very excited to see his obsessively detailed reimagining of FW Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922),…
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Get Away Review: Not a bad trip
GET AWAY (2024) Like many of you (I’m sure), I was immediately in when I saw Nick Frost’s name attached (as co-writer and lead) to another comedy horror film. If you’re like me, you only want more from a purveyor of Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). My only question, unfortunately being:…
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Heretic review: O come, all ye faithful
HERETIC (2024) Rarely does a film toe the line between psychological thriller and religious critique, while being billed as an outright horror, succeed in all departments. Even more rare is an aging rom-com star subtly playing such a convincing menace. The second act of Hugh Grant’s career continues to impress, with his insistence on playing…
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Azrael Review: Finds its Wings
AZRAEL (2024) Maika Monroe of: Longlegs (2024), Watcher (2022), It Follows (2014), Villains (2019), Tau (2018), and Mia Goth of: (Maxxxine (2024), Pearl (2022), X (2022), Infinity Pool (2023) and Suspiria (2018), as well as Samara Weaving of: Ready or Not (2019), The Babysitter (2017), The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) and Scream IV (2023), all…
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man Review: Crooked Alright
HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN (2024) During the making of Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Hellboy (2004) director Guillermo del Toro had a falling out. Mike has stated that the first film was a collaboration between them. He has also said that during the creation of the sequel he was…
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Top Five Overrated Horror Films
Like a lot of you out there, our plan for Halloween night, after the trick-or-treaters are safe at home and eating their hauls, is to eat whatever’s leftover and enjoy a horror movie. We threw out some ideas for this year’s watch…a classic or something new perhaps? There are so many subgenres to choose from,…
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Strange Darling Review: Hurt People Hurt People
STRANGE DARLING (2024) The best advice you can have going in to Strange Darling is to know as little as possible about the plot. If you’re still reading… the film is a cat-and-mouse, online dating, cautionary serial killer thriller. It begins with a Texas Chain Saw Massacre style faux-historical spiel on an unnamed, on the…
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The Substance Review: Buyer beware
THE SUBSTANCE (2024) Hitchcock, Kubrick, De Palma, Lynch, Carpenter, Cronenberg, Aronofsky. All are masterful directors who boast distinct styles, are universally respected, and gave us iconic horror films. Director Coralie Fargeat is acutely aware of this as she litters The Substance with homages to these legends. Like Fargeat, I am also an enormous fan of…
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Alien: Romulus Review: The bitch is back
ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) Everything old is new again in the latest Alien filmography offering, and after the lack of fan love for Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, this bitch is getting back to basics. The aforementioned twosome failed for some due to their lack of scares and fixation on mythology. Personally I enjoyed them and place…
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Speak No Evil Movie Review: Vacation Friends
SPEAK NO EVIL (2024) “Always be polite” we were told, “civility is the glue that holds society together.” Too true, but is there a limit? Manners are on the table for a table of six; two families with varying attitudes, temperaments and approach to parenting meet on vacation and decide to take their newfound friendship…
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5 Underrated Russell Crowe Films
Most of us are familiar with contenders for the top 5 best Russel Crowe movies: Gladiator (2000), L.A. Confidential (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Insider (1999), 3:10 To Yuma ( (2007), Cinderella Man (2005), American Gangster (2007), the list deservedly goes on. One of the greatest actors living today has a plethora of acclaimed…
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Blink Twice Movie Review: The Island of Magic Mike
BLINK TWICE (2024) Let me start off by saying I was excited to watch this one. Debauchery in luxuriousness. Who could ask for anything more. So what that the quick cuts and over the top use of the colour red became a tad distracting. Something bad was happening on that island and I was not…
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The Crow Movie Review: Lil’ Crow
THE CROW (2024) To start, this is not The Crow, but rather a movie about a Manic Pixie dream couple falling in love with a little Crow mixed in (Emo Crow?) in order to entice fans of the original film. But like Eric’s haircut, the film is vying to be too many things all at…