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3.5/5
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He Kills at Night
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A battered woman, a blood-soaked stranger, and a snowbound Christmas Eve drive turn a single car into a rolling torture chamber. He Kills at Night trades holiday cheer for claustrophobic dread, gendered terror, and a finale that hits like black ice.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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4/5
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A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A Savage Art isn’t just a documentary about a cranky genius with a pen; it’s a eulogy for a world where savage cartoons could still make presidents sweat. This portrait of Pat Oliphant doubles as a potent warning shot.
Posted Dec 06, 2025
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2.5/5
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The Kiss of a Vampire
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Go in knowing you’ll have to forgive a lot (it's microbudget, and it shows). If you can do that, you may find yourself unexpectedly seduced by this sexy, messy, campy ode to dark seduction.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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4.5/5
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The American Southwest
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A visually astonishing journey down the Colorado River, The American Southwest blends awe, activism, and ecohorror as it confronts drought, dams, and a fragile future.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dream Eater
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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It’s not a game-changer, but its icy atmosphere, unnerving sound design, and intriguing mythology make this a worthwhile watch for found footage fans.
Posted Nov 29, 2025
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2/5
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Held Hostage in My House
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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A deliriously silly, soapy thriller that’s best enjoyed with your brain in airplane mode. It's deeply flawed, but it has its strange charms for fans of campy B-movie melodrama.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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4/5
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The Disinvited
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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A tense, emotionally raw psychological thriller about belonging, betrayal, and breakdowns, Explores what happens when rejection becomes obsession. With stellar performances and a jaw-dropping final act, it’s a low-budget gem that hits hard and cuts deep.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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3/5
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Stephanie Malone
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A haunting, heartfelt debut that blends online folklore, found footage, and personal trauma. Shelby Oaks isn't flawless. But it’s an ambitious, beautifully shot, and deeply sincere first film that announces Chris Stuckmann as a director worth watching.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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4/5
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Frogman
(2023)
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Stephanie Malone
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A cryptid comedy that croaks its way into genuine terror, Frogman is a love letter to found footage filmmaking and small-town legend. It’s clever, creepy, and packed with surprisingly strong practical effects.
Posted Oct 19, 2025
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3/5
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Your Host
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A blood-slicked morality play for the social media era, Your Host may not win points for originality, but it delivers where it counts — in guts, grit, and gallons of fake blood.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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5/5
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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More than a doc, it's a glitter-soaked hymn to queer joy, creative rebellion, and community survival. A must-see for longtime devotees and a perfect initiation for the uninitiated. Like the show itself, it promises you’ll never leave quite the same.
Posted Oct 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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Deathstalker
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Steven Kostanski’s Deathstalker is the rare remake that improves its source material by fully understanding what made it special... and what made it stupid. It’s a gutsy, goofy, gloriously gory ride packed with practical effects, heart, and humor.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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5/5
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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The film turns a leaking ceiling into a metaphorical abyss, swallowing a woman whole as she tries to hold everything together. Rose Byrne delivers a career-best performance in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding, darkly comic portrait of modern motherhood.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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3/5
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Vicious
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A haunting concept, a powerhouse performance from Fanning, and immaculate direction can’t save Vicious from its own murky storytelling. Still, it’s a chilling Halloween watch for those who prefer their horror messy, mean, and drenched in atmosphere.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4.5/5
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A blistering blend of wartime despair and shark-infested terror that delivers real, visceral fear. Powered by Mark Coles Smith’s stunning lead performance and a massive practical shark, this is war horror at its bloodiest and most human.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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Match
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Match takes the dangers of digital dating to deranged new depths. It's gross, gutsy, and gleefully grim.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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3/5
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Coyotes
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Sinks its teeth into the Hollywood Hills with gnarly gore, brisk pacing, and Justin Long and Kate Bosworth’s natural chemistry. Tonally messy and light on substance, but consistently entertaining for animal-attack fans.
Posted Oct 04, 2025
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3.5/5
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Scurry
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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A nightmare in real time, Scurry is a one-take descent into claustrophobic terror. It drags you underground and never lets you come up for air. Tense, visceral, and suffocatingly immersive, it’s an imperfect but nerve-flaying ride.
Posted Oct 04, 2025
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4.5/5
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V/H/S Halloween
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A grisly, gory, and wildly fun anthology that nails tonal consistency. With standout segments like Diet Phantasma, Kidprint, and Home Haunt, it’s one of the franchise’s best—and a perfect October watch.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4.5/5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Good Boy takes a haunted house story you think you know and refracts it through the eyes of a loyal dog. The result is terrifying, devastating, and profoundly moving—a horror film anchored by one of the greatest animal performances ever put on screen.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4/5
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Whitetail
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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It’s meditative, bleak, and often punishing. But it’s also a gorgeously realized, thematically rich exploration of trauma, grief, and survival. For the arthouse crowd willing to engage with its patience-testing rhythms, it’s an unforgettable experience.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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3/5
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Flesh of the Unforgiven
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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A grimy, surreal micro-budget horror film that combines psychological torment with supernatural sleaze. Inspired by Hellraiser but stamped with Joe Hollow’s DIY grit, it’s a messy, bold, and anchored by a powerhouse performance from Debbie Rochon.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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5/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A beautifully crafted work of horror, one that suffocates, unsettles, and refuses to let go. By marrying haunting performances, stark visuals, and unrelenting tension with razor-sharp sociopolitical commentary, the film transcends its genre trappings.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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Theater Is Dead
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A girl-powered, blood-drenched, hilariously unhinged ode to the theater kid dream. With biting comedy, gnarly horror, and Shane West at his most deliciously unhinged, it skewers ambition, rivalry, and the dangerous lure of the spotlight.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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4/5
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The G
(2023)
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Stephanie Malone
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A stark, unflinching thriller that transforms real-world horrors of elder exploitation into a chilling revenge saga. Slow-burning yet deeply affecting, it’s an unforgettable reckoning with the predators who profit from society’s most vulnerable.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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3.5/5
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She Loved Blossoms More
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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A surreal Greek fever dream where three brothers unleash warped experiments while drowning in drugs, grief, and obsession. Unsettling and audacious, it’s less a story than an emotional maelstrom.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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3.5/5
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HIM
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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With surreal visuals, disturbing body horror, and a powerhouse performance from Marlon Wayans, Justin Tipping’s Him challenges genre expectations and reveals the hidden horrors of ambition and sacrifice.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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5/5
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Sirāt is a film that grips like few others. It is harrowing and hypnotic, devastating and beautiful. Oliver Laxe delivers a sensory and emotional knockout destined to linger long after the credits.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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3.5/5
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Solitude
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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Solitude is a slow-burning horror that rewards patience. Its midsection may drag, but the payoff is worth it. It’s a haunting, atmospheric journey that’s less about fighting a creature and more about the ways solitude itself devours us.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2.5/5
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Traumatika
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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Traumatika is bold, bleak, and brimming with potential—but it’s also one of the most frustrating horror films of the year. It begins with disturbing imagery and suffocating atmosphere, only to unravel into incoherence and shock-value storytelling.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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3/5
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The Jester 2
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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The Jester 2 is no masterpiece, but it’s undeniably fun. As a spooky-season crowd-pleaser, it does exactly what it promises: tricks, treats, and just enough terror to keep you grinning.
Posted Sep 14, 2025
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4/5
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Death of a Vlogger
(2019)
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Stephanie Malone
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Supernatural scares collide with the horrors of cancel culture in an eerie and unnerving story of online fame, fabricated truths, and internet outrage. It's a clever, chilling, and unpredictable exploration of the dangers of being consumed by content.
Posted Sep 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Borderline
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Borderline is a chaotic cocktail of horror, comedy, and thriller—a deranged midnight movie about obsession, celebrity culture, and the strange space where violence and absurdity collide. It’s messy, it’s tonally erratic, and it’s an absolute blast.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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Brute 1976
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Brute 1976 is exactly what its name promises: a nasty and brutal affair that feels like a blood-soaked love letter to the grindhouse slashers of the 70s. A visceral, unapologetic throwback that wears its influences proudly on its sleeve.
Posted Aug 23, 2025
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4/5
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Don't Peek
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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What starts as a simple reaction-video gimmick spirals into voyeuristic terror in Kyle Tague’s unnerving found footage nightmare, where influencer culture collides with a masked predator’s haunted VHS archive.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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3.5/5
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Witchboard
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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Chuck Russell’s Witchboard remake trades clunky camp for gory grandeur, delivering a stylish, messy, and wildly entertaining ride through the French Quarter’s dark underbelly.
Posted Aug 17, 2025
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2.5/5
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Realm of Satan
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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An eerie but ultimately shallow glimpse into the Church of Satan, this doc trades depth for spectacle. Though stylish and occasionally powerful, it never gets under the skin of its subjects, leaving “weird” as costume rather than lived experience.
Posted Aug 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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Stalkers
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Starts like a sleazy Lifetime thriller and ends with a blood-soaked bang. Paul Thompson delivers a messy, pulpy, and surprisingly heartfelt horror-thriller about stigma, obsession, and survival, anchored by Olivia Stadler’s raw, captivating performance.
Posted Aug 16, 2025
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4.5/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Bold, ambitious, and original. I can’t recall a more impressive example of a filmmaker so deftly balancing the difficult blend of immersive dread and truly witty but twisted humor. A killer setup and a jaw-dropping, audience-pleasing finale. What a ride!
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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4/5
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The Buildout
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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This is a film about searching: searching for self, purpose, belonging, and forgiveness. It's about a quest that is daunting, even terrifying, but universally human—brought to life by two exquisite performances.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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4/5
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ZombieCON Vol. 1
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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"ZOMBIECon" is a riotous romp that turns toxic jerks into zombies, celebrating cosplay and found family with gonzo gore, heart, and humor. It’s creative, joyful, and full of blood-splattered heart.
Posted Aug 03, 2025
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4/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Alex Garland’s script balances post-apocalyptic terror with a moving coming-of-age story. A boy’s journey through grief, survival, and the ghosts of Britain’s past delivers one of the most haunting sequels in modern horror.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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3/5
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Bambi: The Reckoning
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Bleak, bloody, and effective eco-horror. This grizzly homage to the cartoon trauma of Bambi's past should satisfy those who want to enjoy a bloody-fun bastardization of their youth and an exploitation of their childhood traumas.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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5/5
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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Best experienced with minimal context, this hauntingly beautiful film unravels the chilling cost of silence, the weight of tradition, and the ways women are too often blamed to protect the men who hurt them. Go in cold. Come out changed.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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4/5
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Magnetosphere
(2024)
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Stephanie Malone
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This heartfelt tale about the beauty of what makes us different is a magical coming-of-age film for misfits of all ages. It’s a love letter to those who see the world differently; a powerful, affirming story for all audiences.
Posted Jul 26, 2025
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4/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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A dizzying, disorienting descent into America’s soul sickness. With brutal satire and intentional chaos, it holds up a devastating mirror to our fractured reality.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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3/5
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Continuance
(2021)
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Stephanie Malone
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The plot is thin, as writer-director Tony Olmos focuses more on his deranged character study, offering a scathing indictment of those who put self-preservation ahead of society’s good.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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Red Rock West
(1993)
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Stephanie Malone
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It’s a near-perfect distillation of the genre’s best qualities.
Posted Jul 14, 2025
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4/5
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Found Footage: The Making of The Patterson Project
(2025)
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Stephanie Malone
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Hilarious, terrifying, exceedingly clever, and a must-see for fans of horror-comedy and DIY filmmaking. It’s a cliché to lament the difficulty of effectively blending comedy and horror, but it bears repeating when a film nails it so perfectly.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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5/5
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Dogma
(1999)
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Stephanie Malone
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Kevin Smith’s "Dogma" is a bold, sharp, and witty religious satire with a devout cult following that's still divine 25 years later.
Posted May 28, 2025
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