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Invader (2024) Katelyn Nelson Keating’s crack at home invasion horror works to deliver his usual dose of anxiety—just maybe not in quite the same way or place we have come to expect.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Scream 3 (2000) Brett Gallman SCREAM 3’s flirtation with genuine subversion makes it one of the most interesting — and most frustrating — entries in the series. Considering the circumstances that influenced its production, it’s remarkable that it works at all.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Dangerous Animals (2025) Jon Abrams DANGEROUS ANIMALS arrives immediately as one of the best genre films of the year. Made in Australia, with a small cast primarily made up of Australians (with one notable exception), DANGEROUS ANIMALS harkens back to the glory days of Ozploitation.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A+++
Jaws (1975) Brett Gallman JAWS is the nexus point: the movie that introduced me to the genre that shaped my life and fostered my appreciation for film in general. It resonates with me on a level few films ever reach.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Chief of Station (2024) Brian Cartwright CHIEF OF STATION is tense, violent, thrilling and, perhaps most rewardingly, it’s familiar and comfortable in its construction.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A+
Tinsman Road (2025) Violet Burns TINSMAN ROAD is a deeply intimate sonata of uncanny dread. It’s the burning in your chest when you hear your mother crying through a wall.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Americana (2025) Brian Cartwright Tony Tost’s AMERICANA feels like an old friend standing in front of an open Coleman cooler in summer and simply asking us, “Beer?” Hell yeah, Tony. I’ll take a beer.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Brute 1976 (2025) Riley Cassidy BRUTE 1976 feels very much like a modern movie trying to emulate the ‘70s, rather than something authentic.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Strange Harvest (2024) Violet Burns "I didn’t realize how badly STRANGE HARVEST had shaken me until I had to wind through the near-empty parking garage alone at midnight..."
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Slotherhouse (2023) Jon Abrams Forgive me for channeling my inner Gene Shalit and slinging a species-appropriate pun, but SLOTHERHOUSE is a terrific hang.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Pope's Exorcist (2023) Jon Abrams I can be underwhelmed by a movie and still have fun with it. This is Daily Grindhouse, baby. At this point, there aren’t many exorcism setpieces I haven’t seen, and while this doesn’t bring much innovation, it has energy and a willingness to get crazy.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Dooba Dooba (2024) Katelyn Nelson It wastes no time at all getting down into the awkwardness at the heart of babysitting the child of people who are quickly revealed to be chronic overshares, yet still not much is as it seems.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Abigail Before Beatrice (2025) Katelyn Nelson What is revealed is a devastating look into not just how commonly evil people can be to others to pin them into particular narratives... but also how easy it is to fall into the trap of an idealized world.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Hot Spring Shark Attack (2024) Katelyn Nelson Now more than ever the world needs more art made for the sake of fun whose seams you can see, and on that front this debut from filmmaker Morihito Inoue delivers in spades. His love for shark cinema is obvious in every second of this roller coaster ride.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Booger (2024) Katelyn Nelson ...while it will not be for everyone, Booger is a worthy entry into the current trend of feral-domestic animal/woman media. It puts all the messy, dark underbelly of unexpected grief to the forefront and challenges you to respond.
Posted Jan 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Becomers (2023) Katelyn Nelson ...The Becomers is an understated, unusual love letter to this hungry, needful drive toward connection amid a bizarre and dying world.
Posted Jan 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Endless Summer Syndrome (2024) Katelyn Nelson ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME is a fascinating effort in no small part because it challenges us to consider and confront our own responses to the situation at hand in ways that feel designed to make us uncomfortable beyond just what is playing out onscreen.
Posted Jan 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Red Rooms (2023) Katelyn Nelson It is unrelentingly cold and bleak. It is firmly planted in reality, and yet still manages to dip us into a sense of the unbelievable. It is a deep, dark mirror held up to the culture of celebrity worship—no matter how the “celebrity” was earned.
Posted Sep 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Katelyn Nelson What makes Bride such a powerful entry in the Frankenstein canon—and the classic Universal series as a whole—is its ability to keep its horror under the surface. Only occasionally does it truly allow it to come to the forefront full force...
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) Katelyn Nelson Where the first Paranormal Activity sought to present hours of no movement by speeding up the clock, the sequel pressures you to examine every corner of a room for yourself.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Move Me (2022) Katelyn Nelson Perhaps the most important element of Move Me to come away with, however, are Kelsey’s observations about the differences between life before her accident and life now, and the way she finds humor in the smallest moments...
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Skins (2017) Katelyn Nelson ...not some scandalous comedy about dramatically and hysterically disfigured people, but a deeply sad and heartfelt meditation on shame, acceptance, and a society that stays ready to shun anyone who looks or needs to function outside the norm.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Nika (2021) Katelyn Nelson Nika is an almost painfully intimate look into her life, carried beautifully by Yankoskaya’s performance. Her ability to embody the complexities of a woman who so clearly strained to find herself...and fight against her past is heartbreaking.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Prank (2022) Katelyn Nelson ...a fun ride propelled onward by strong performances...despite some pacing issues that occasionally slow the story..., it’s a darkly comic exploration of the time-honored tradition of intimidated kids making monsters out of mole hills
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Honeycomb (2022) Katelyn Nelson Honeycomb transcends the realm of summer outing and catapults itself into a land of vaguely threatening sweetness. To underestimate it because of how or by whom it was made is to incur its wrath.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Delta Space Mission (1984) Katelyn Nelson Watching Delta Space Mission unfold is a bit of a psychedelic experience. Even moments of stillness have an air about them that hints more at underlying vivacity that constantly builds rather than a sense of calm.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Lux Æterna (2019) Katelyn Nelson ...Lux Aeterna‘s slapdash 5-day assembly and experimental approach to storytelling re-centers the beautiful nightmare niche of movies whose strongest pull are the vibes they wrap you in from start to finish...unease you can’t quite grasp but...feel
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
LandLocked (2022) Katelyn Nelson It feels like it was an effort of love and remembrance, the kind of thing meant to live on so audiences can reclaim and reconsider their own connections to their own pasts, made of the vulnerable lifeblood of a family that truly existed.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
PussyCake (2021) Katelyn Nelson ...a gloriously grotesque mashup of Josie and the Pussycats and Evil Dead. If that sounds like an unnatural or unusual mix to you, I promise it is nothing short of a match made in midnight movie heaven.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Attachment Diaries (2021) Katelyn Nelson What makes Attachment Diaries perverse is just the same thing that makes it an irresistible watch: these women perform acts and display their bodies in ways that directly counter social expectations.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Artifice Girl (2022) Katelyn Nelson A markedly uncomfortable and emotional watch, Ritch’s film feels both unique and necessary, especially in a world where technology itself is constantly shifting from luxury to necessity.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Dark Nature (2022) Katelyn Nelson Audiences should proceed with a bit of caution, perhaps, as it is done so effectively as to be potentially triggering to some, but it is also a testament to the strength of Berkley Brady’s ability that such a powerful and immersive work is her debut...
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Skinamarink (2022) Katelyn Nelson The atmosphere created in this film is more than just immediately unsettling. It feels, as the situations get darker and bleaker, almost as if we are watching something we have no business laying eyes on. Like a fever dream you can’t quite shake.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (2022) Katelyn Nelson The atmosphere of Vertebra lives in the liminal space between softly romantic and violent, as the creature develops along its lifecycle into something desperate to make sense of its complexities and the subtleties of the world around it.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Island of Lost Girls (2022) Katelyn Nelson ...the Schmidt family has proven that there is no underestimating the strength of sisterly connection, and that involving children in creating their own fairy tale scenarios will prove to be an awfully big adventure.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Speak No Evil (2022) Katelyn Nelson Rather than invading the victim’s home, Tafdrup’s film turns the house into an invader itself, displacing the victims into a state of constant discomfort only amplified by the consistent invasion of their personal boundaries.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Dark Glasses (2022) Katelyn Nelson Tamer, yes, but with enough of the same potential for bite that Dark Glasses can, and should, be considered a successful return with an aim to bring in new fans.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Piggy (2022) Katelyn Nelson ...a consistent vulnerable canvas of pain and rage that should be enough to make even the hardest audiences sit back and consider the kind of pressure we place on ourselves and others to fit our ideas.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Razzennest (2022) Katelyn Nelson ...immersive in an almost inarticulable way with the kind of horror in its climax that has its teeth sunk in before you’ve even realized it’s bitten. It is, also, a novel approach to the forced confrontation with history we occasionally seem to need.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Everyone Will Burn (2021) Katelyn Nelson Every frame is lush with atmosphere thanks to both Ona Isart’s cinematography and Patricia Parejo’s costume design. Even in its moments of greatest simplicity, the air of dread never leaves viewers minds...
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Amazing Elisa (2022) Katelyn Nelson Jana San Antonio’s performance, and that of her heroine counterpart Blanca Valletbò are both remarkable. At once understated and magnetic, both of them balance the spotlight with aplomb, leaving us unable to look away every time they enter the screen.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Lynch/Oz (2022) Katelyn Nelson Equally vital for devoted Lynch and Oz fans and those curious about his work and the magic of storytelling...Lynch/Oz is just the kind of documentary best suited to approaching him; cohesive...poetic but full of pieces and crumbs, some assembly required.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Two Witches (2021) Katelyn Nelson With frequent use of closeups, gory effects, and spliced shots of the elder witch credited aptly as “The Boogeywoman” (Marina Parodi), the feeling of being watched and evaluated, and even consumed, never lets up.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Unheard (2023) Katelyn Nelson When the atmosphere works, it works wonders, but there are elements of THE UNHEARD that feel like they actively work against the film.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Abruptio (2023) Katelyn Nelson All that would be enough to build any movie’s tension, but, somehow that only scratches the surface of all that’s going on with Abruptio. Like all the best nightmares, there’s far more at work here beneath the surface, and that surface is a slippery one.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Blue Hour: The Disappearance of Nick Brandreth (2023) Katelyn Nelson Despite the occasional stilted performances, Blue Hour has a lot to offer when it comes to originality and atmosphere, and it makes for an eerily comforting watch.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Satan Wants You (2023) Katelyn Nelson Anyone interested in what makes the wheels of major social panic and hysteria turn will find much to learn from Satan Wants You. Terrifying in its implications and its truths, it even manages to tie in to more current moments.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Raven (2012) Katelyn Nelson Rather than parody or melodramatic spoof, it dissects the cliché of tortured-writer-as-dark-figure and in its place presents a man firmly planted in the space between reality and imagination, and aware of the limitations of each.
Posted Aug 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Mind Body Spirit (2023) Katelyn Nelson Her...hunger for connection to anything makes her the perfect vessel both for the audience and the horrors she unwittingly unleashes. She’s the meek...voice for genuine desire amid a...culture bent on maintaining...perfection only at the surface level.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Tearsucker (2022) Katelyn Nelson This dance of perspectives makes the whole film feel like you’re watching something forbidden, almost, like you want to avert your eyes but can’t…but it also makes the payoff at the end all the sweeter.
Posted Aug 01, 2024  Edit critic review
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