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Rachel Shatto

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “Under Nia DaCosta’s incredible direction, '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' is brutal and aching, frightening and hilarious, human and monstrous, and a total return to form for the series.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “Really effective "when animals attack" films are rare, but this one understood the assignment and offered nail-biting set pieces, visceral gore, and a cast of nubile archetypal horror characters for Ben to rip limb from limb. So, kudos to "Primate."” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Dust Bunny is a brilliant and lush kaleidoscope of color, bizarrely wonderful characters, and one giant killer bunny. It’s films like this for which the theatrical experience was created.” – Pride.com Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Mr. K (2024) 79% EDIT “Mr. K is a fever dream of a film; narrative structure and logic are eschewed in favor of a series of vignettes that culminate in a truly — and perfectly — bizarre denouement. ” – MovieJawn Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Deathstalker (2025) 86% EDIT “What Kostanski gets right isn’t just the nostalgia, gore, or even the joys of puppety violence—it’s tone. It feels like an invitation to an inside joke, with a whimsical imagination that’s oddly wholesome for a film that opens with a bloody decapitation.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 67% EDIT “It’s the perfect recipe for a Southern Gothic tale of vengeance, which begins with slow burning interfamily politics but culminates in an explosion of violence.” – MovieJawn Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% EDIT “It’s just fun. Tonally it’s in line with something like ‘Ready or Not,’ but with the twisty absurdity of ‘Body Double’ and a whisper of V.C. Andrews’ novels.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Oct 19, 2025 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) 15% EDIT “Madelaine Petsch continues to give a great scream queen performance — she really leaves it all on the field — but the rest of the movie just doesn’t meet her on that level.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Oct 9, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “HIM is not a movie you can engage with lightly. You have to lock in and pay attention to what the film is actually saying through its use of symbolism and storytelling sleight of hand. Do this, and the film ascends to something truly special.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Dream Eater (2025) 68% EDIT “Dream Eater is, without a doubt, the kind of scary that horror lovers’ dreams—or rather, nightmares—are made of.” – MovieJawn Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% EDIT “The Conjuring: Last Rites is not aggressively bad; it's just aggressively middle of the road.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “The Long Walk is King at his very best: rife with characters to ache for and to despise, with shocking moments of depravity and transcendent humanity. The sacred and the profane, all wrapped up into an anti-fascist cautionary tale. ” – Pride.com Sep 12, 2025 Full Review M3GAN 2.0 (2025) 57% EDIT “It really feels like all the wrong lessons were learned from the success of the first film. Gone is the fun camp with a mean edge, gone are the characters with a whiff of humanity. Gone is the horror entirely.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “It's bold to take a horror film like this and treat it like a character piece for a long stretch of the film, punctuated by horror. It succeeds by letting the characters be unexpectedly messy and defying your expectations about who they are.” – Bloody Good Horror (Podcast) Aug 19, 2025 Full Review undertone (2025) 83% EDIT “What truly steals the show is the film’s sound design. From the rattling breaths that open the film to its orgiastic eruption of layered voices, effects, and tones in the final act—sound remains the film's secret and most potent weapon. ” – MovieJawn Aug 12, 2025 Full Review The Woman (2025) EDIT “Nothing in 'The Woman' is simple, and it will keep you guessing until the final beats of the film—and perhaps beyond.” – MovieJawn Aug 8, 2025 Full Review The Bearded Girl (2025) EDIT “The Bearded Girl puts its own uniquely coiffed style on the hairy situation that is becoming who you are meant to be, on your own terms. ” – MovieJawn Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT “'Together' is the most romantic, queerest, and funniest body horror film in recent memory. Brie and Franco's real-life chemistry shines through. It’s a rom-com for sickos, and that’s the highest compliment I can give a film. ” – Pride.com Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% EDIT “It’s darkly funny, naughty, and thought-provoking. It’s a clever use of the visual language of fairy tales to unpack our ingrained ideas of beauty and gender, while also presenting a truly entertaining yarn.” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review The First Omen (2024) 83% EDIT “It’s an exploration of religious trauma and authoritarian assault on bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom that prove to be terrifyingly timely. It’s also just a wicked good time.” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% EDIT “The film pays homage to the entirety of the franchise, including the prequels, and feels a bit like Alvarez is playing the greatest hits — but this is nonetheless one of the most entertaining entries in the series.” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 64% EDIT “Girls, this is the comedy we’ve been waiting for, so grab your besties and head to the cinema as soon as you can.” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% EDIT “In 'Lisa Frankenstein,' Williams and Cody have unearthed a modern classic, and we can only hope that it’s just the first of many collaborations” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review Saw X (2023) 81% EDIT “'SAW X' feels like a fresh start. It resets the playing board and sets a path forward for a deeper study of its iconic characters while introducing new obstacles for Kramer to slash, dash, and grind out of his way. ” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% EDIT “ 'MaXXXine' serves as a perfect end to a trilogy of films that feel like a true gift to horror and genre fans.” – Pride.com Jul 20, 2025 Full Review
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