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Michael Gingold

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Send Help (2026) 94% EDIT “Raimi laces this tense emotional rollercoaster with plenty of his trademark aggressive style, employing exaggerated close-ups and baroque visual/editing tricks, and taking every opportunity to play things to the nasty/icky hilt.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 18% EDIT “[The movie] plays like the most simplistic kind of video game, carrying us from one gnarly encounter to another without giving us an emotional connection to what’s going on.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 22% EDIT “KILLER WHALE doesn’t come up with enough inventive developments once the situation is established, and the CGI used to create the environment isn’t quite convincing, which is a distraction throughout.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “Essentially a Syfy movie done slicker, it has just enough scares and shocks to provide a diverting ride through the perils of primate change.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% EDIT “Carnage and mayhem aren't WE BURY THE DEAD's focus or endgame...there's a respect for the dead, and the tragedy of both their passing and their resurrection, that’s uncommon for the genre.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “The result isn’t nearly as funny as the first sequel, ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID, was without trying.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Fuller deftly tells a child's story in grown-up terms and comes up with a movie that can be enjoyed by adults and older kids alike.” – Fangoria Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “An improvement on the original in every way, showcasing stronger filmmaking and production values and replacing crude psychopathology with a somewhat more layered characterization of its Santa-dressed serial killer.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Troll 2 (2025) 58% EDIT “Let’s hope for something more figuratively as well as literally groundbreaking if this cinematic monsterverse winds up becoming a, ahem, trollogy.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% EDIT “Clearly, this team knows what scares you, and they all work in perfect concert to deliver it.” – Fangoria Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) EDIT “They say no one tries to make a bad film, and BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL exemplifies that idea; everyone involved worked hard, at the top of their craft, and the doc is entirely sympathetic to them for it.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Self-Help (2025) 82% EDIT “It’s more dramatically oriented than an all-out horror show (though the scary stuff definitely lands), and also more psychologically ambitious than the Bloomquists’ previous movies.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 31, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “Comic outrageousness is often more attention-getting than a straight face, but the latter approach pays off in From Beyond, which plumbs deeper than Re-Animator did and pays off in both dramatic intensity and frights aplenty.” – Fangoria Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Astronaut (2025) 42% EDIT “What’s missing for most of the running time is a sense that movie is about anything more than it appears on the surface.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Del Toro now contributes one of the best [adaptations] by going back to the source and translating Shelley’s words to images through his own personal lens.” – Fangoria Oct 17, 2025 Full Review New Group (2025) EDIT “It’s a most entertaining slice of weirdness...braced by an underpinning of social commentary that supports and enhances its bizarre visual and narrative pleasures.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% EDIT “It isn’t about upping the body count in an attempt to outdo its predecessor’s thrills and chills, but digging deeper into the psyches of its two troubled youths.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Vicious (2025) 44% EDIT “Even with its problems, VICIOUS is further confirmation of Bertino’s skill at tightening the screws on both his protagonists and his audiences.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “It's a by now familiar but still effectively elemental survival situation, one that Roache-Turner wrings for both interpersonal tension and toothy thrills.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% EDIT “Morgan and Friedlander deliciously turn the screws, lacing the gory goings-on with a generous helping of black humor...the actors commit to the savage/survival sides of their roles as fully as they do to their variously flawed characters.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) 15% EDIT “Provides so little in the way of explanations or any other satisfaction that with the trilogy closer on the way next year, even the most curious franchise fans have no reason to see it.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Sep 26, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% EDIT “It’s Troma standards writ with a larger budget, and Blair and his team bring an advanced level of technical accomplishment while maintaining the spirit of the source.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% EDIT “It may be too much for some viewers to take, but no one ever said addiction is pretty. And Aronofsky earns every right to his excesses by making sure audiences feel the loss of humanity instead of treating them like spectators at a freak show.” – Fangoria Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “There’s almost no violence in LURKER; the damage its people do to one another is emotional, but no less unnerving.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Sweetness (2025) 95% EDIT “Higgins...is here a stronger director than a writer, and her confident handling of the material—and excellent choice of leading lady—carry SWEETNESS over the bumps in its narrative.” – Rue Morgue Magazine Aug 22, 2025 Full Review
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