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Max Allen

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Primate (2025) 79% 7/10 EDIT “Within the first 5 minutes of the movie I was fully bought in, and honestly felt extremely tense throughout the entire film. Chimps are terrifying, but they also fit in this weird slot of uncanny valley where they can also be extremely cute and hilarious.” – Horror Movie Talk Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% 3/10 EDIT “he movie is packed full of winks and nods specifically designed to make a fan of the Five Nights at Freddy’s game say, "Hey, I know what that is!" However, to the average person with limited FNAF lore, it doesn’t quite hit the same.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Tenebrae (1982) 83% 8/10 EDIT “The movie does a great job at misdirecting your focus and creates a web of motives for everyone involved until you are sure the killer is definitely this person! Only for that person to die in the very next scene. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Until Dawn (2025) 52% 8/10 EDIT “ Its a really fun idea, and it has the built-in advantage of being able to pack in lots of fun and gory death scenes without losing its main cast or requiring a ridiculous amount of characters.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 41% 3/10 EDIT “The cinematography is strikingly beautiful for such a low effort film. While the acting ranges from really good at times to borderline over-acting, the script does not do our actors any favors.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% 7/10 EDIT “Time moves awkwardly slow, a low hum and sharp static hang over most of the scenes, and even the mere movements of the characters feel so off. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% 6/10 EDIT “It’s surprisingly self-aware in its dialogue and genuinely pretty funny throughout the film. The opening scene starts the movie off so strong and I was already having fun 5 minutes into the movie. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% 4/10 EDIT “The dialog felt cold and emotionless. Even during scenes that were supposed to be touching, suspenseful, or exciting, all of the characters seemed to deliver the most boring inhuman lines.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% 10/10 EDIT “Beetlejuice is a fantastic movie. And Michael Keaton who plays Beetlejuice is the best part. He’s funny and inappropriate and pretty much exactly what you would expect some asshole to become if he had a few hundred years to stew in his undead filth. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Caveat (2020) 81% 6/10 EDIT “I think my biggest problem with this movie is just the look of it. Most shudder-exclusive movies that I’ve seen tend to lean very heavily into the spooky house syndrome, and this movie is no exception.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Stir of Echoes (1999) 70% 7/10 EDIT “While Stir of Echoes is not a very scary movie, the mystery did reel me in and by act 2 I was pretty invested in uncovering the truth. Kevin Bacon does a really good job of portraying a decent into madness...” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review 30 Days of Night (2007) 50% 6/10 EDIT “ I appreciated the family and character dynamics introduced in the first act, but honestly by act two when people start dying I didn’t really care who they were or how they were important to the story. It’s vampire time baby! ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Possum (2018) 88% 7/10 EDIT “Not much happens for the majority of the movie, and sometimes it feels like you are watching pretty much nothing. But, there are layers to this film. It is all about running from your trauma, and how you can’t escape it unless you face it. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Terrifier 3 (2024) 78% 8/10 EDIT “Maybe herein lies the perfect word to describe Terrifier 3. It separates. Skin from muscle. A lower jaw from the upper jaw. Left butt cheek from right butt cheek. Every way in which a body can be torn asunder, Terrifier 3 will separate. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Incantation (2022) 79% 10/10 EDIT “...When I watched this movie for the first time I had to pause it and turn on the lights because I got too scared. It pulls the viewer into the story making you apart of the nightmare and for that this feels more like an experience than a movie.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 5/10 EDIT “For the most part, the movie kept being like "hey! Remember face huggers!" or "hey! Remember the chest-bursting scene from the original! What if we did that again! Cool right?"” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% 8/10 EDIT “The movie is very well shot and the atmosphere is creepy the entire time. It has a similar feel to movies like Silence of the Lambs and Seven but is maybe a little slower than both of those movies.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Exorcism (2024) 26% 4/10 EDIT “The scares aren’t that interesting, and some of the jump scares are so loud and quickly cut that I literally didn’t even know what happening. It was just startling and gave me zero information about what was actually going on in the film.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Grudge (2004) 41% 8/10 EDIT “The ghost looks extremely creepy in most scenes, with a face that genuinely terrified me as a kid, even before I had seen the movie. Its mark on pop culture is undeniable. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Arachnophobia (1990) 93% 8/10 EDIT “I couldn’t get past a single scene without checking to see if there was a creepy crawly on my body. This movie is entertaining and enjoyable to watch, even for an arachnophobe like me. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Birds (1963) 95% 6/10 EDIT “it is a fine movie that kept me engaged enough throughout most of it but not really anything special to me. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Creep 2 (2017) 100% 8/10 EDIT “It does not repeat overdone tropes or follow the same story line whatsoever. This movie could stand alone and it still makes sense, and would still be very effective.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The First Omen (2024) 83% 8/10 EDIT “Its shocking without being distasteful, and Nell Free’s character Margaret is a delight to watch and gives a performance that I think will be studied and copied by many possession movies to come. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Imaginary (2024) 25% 2/10 EDIT “It’s almost like the writers knew what they wanted to tell the audience but had no idea how to convey their thoughts other than having the characters say them outright.” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Void (2016) 78% 7/10 EDIT “The Void is some sort of hodge-podge that pulls from many different movies, creating a wild ride that barely gives the viewer time to breathe. ” – Horror Movie Talk Dec 4, 2025 Full Review
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