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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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V/H/S/Beyond (2024) 90% EDIT “It's scary and creative in parts, and a bit of a let down in others — but the good bits are enough to let you forgive the bad.” – Mashable Oct 4, 2024 Full Review The Platform 2 (2024) 35% EDIT “It's not one to watch while you're eating, as there's plenty of disturbing and gory imagery. But the dialogue and the performances are powerful, and the underlying exploration of societal power structures is just as fascinating as it was in the original.” – Mashable Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Hell Hole (2024) 83% EDIT “The dialogue is solid, as are the performances. The directing delights in, and makes the most of, explosive body horror affects.” – Mashable Aug 19, 2024 Full Review In a Violent Nature (2024) 79% EDIT “In a Violent Nature is a fun squirm-fest with visuals to delight and appall and which, like Johnny, we'd be more than willing to return to in the years to come.” – Mashable May 29, 2024 Full Review You'll Never Find Me (2023) 81% EDIT “The movie does exactly what it sets out to: puts us on edge, keeps us uneasy, keeps us gripped. ” – Mashable Mar 7, 2024 Full Review Monolith (2023) 87% EDIT “The film could easily have been a dismally failed experiment, but Monolith's logistical restrictions actually help it shine, adding a claustrophobia and sense of realism that only heightens the core mystery.” – Mashable Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Baghead (2023) 31% EDIT “Ultimately Baghead has a few promising threads, but the end result is misshapen sack. ” – Mashable Jan 26, 2024 Full Review I.S.S. (2023) 61% EDIT “Gabriela Cowperthwaite's movie is a subtle, tight exercise in suspense, throwing its characters together in a tight space and watching them struggle and fight like rodents in a box.” – Mashable Jan 19, 2024 Full Review No One Will Save You (2023) 83% EDIT “If you saw the trailer and are watching this one wishing to be scared, don't get your hopes up. The 93-minute plot mostly plays out like a long game of hide-and-seek... ” – Mashable Sep 25, 2023 Full Review Slotherhouse (2023) 64% EDIT “Slotherhouse aims for so bad it's good, but the film gets stuck on the bad part, the good never fully materialising.” – Mashable Sep 19, 2023 Full Review The Unheard (2023) 41% EDIT “The Unheard is a film that relies heavily upon sound... But rather than wielding it as a lazy shock device, director Jeffrey A. Brown does so in a specific way that goes hand in hand with the film’s story — and creates a truly terrifying effect.” – Mashable Mar 23, 2023 Full Review Children of the Corn (2020) 11% EDIT “This bunch of murdery children aren't creepy enough, their town takeover doesn't really make sense, and the whole thing lacks the shock factor that made Fritz Kiersch's original 1984 adaptation a success.” – Mashable Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) 67% EDIT “The Fallen Sun sticks the landing but only just, offering an entertaining and well-acted story that can't help get tangled up in itself.” – Mashable Feb 24, 2023 Full Review Attachment (2022) 95% EDIT “The movie differs from your average horror in that there aren't that many release points — the jump scares are few and far between, which means the tension has nowhere to go but up.” – Mashable Feb 15, 2023 Full Review The Menu (2022) 88% EDIT “Splicing horror and comedy with skill and delight, the movie is a satire of class, privilege, and pretension that's also at its core a supremely entertaining story.” – Mashable Jan 13, 2023 Full Review Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) 78% EDIT “Christmas Bloody Christmas is well worth tuning in to — especially if you're fed up of feeling festive and want to lean into some extreme chaos.” – Mashable Dec 9, 2022 Full Review Mandrake (2022) 76% EDIT “Big jump scares are all very well and good in horror films, but sometimes you'd rather something that creeps up on you.” – Mashable Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Drifting Home (2022) 69% EDIT “Weird, surreal, imperfect, and — despite its faults — memorably beautiful.” – Mashable Sep 23, 2022 Full Review The Invitation (2022) 32% EDIT “For all its strengths, The Invitation is ultimately undone by its predictability.” – Mashable Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Carter (2022) 32% EDIT “Like the main character, we're barely given time to draw breathe — and the film suffers for it.” – Mashable Aug 5, 2022 Full Review The Seed (2021) 54% EDIT “Has lots of promising elements, but in the end it never quite manages to find its mark.” – Mashable Mar 7, 2022 Full Review The Power (2021) 84% EDIT “All in all, the film is pretty hard to fault. The performances are excellent all-round, with Rose Williams showing off incredible range in the central role.” – Mashable Apr 13, 2021 Full Review
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