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Every year Shudder releases an anthology film consisting of several “found footage” shorts, usually set in the 80s/90s, and “Halloween” is the latest. The theme here is, well Halloween, and the stories all use the holiday as the setting for their stories. I usually look forward to these since they’re good spooky fun. This year Read more

I think Folk Horror is done best when you feel like you’re in a foreign land. It removes the sense of security you feel when you’re connected to the place you are and then it doesn’t take much to install dread into somewhat mundane things. Fréwaka does this very well. Even though it’s set in Read more

The Monkey is weird. it’s a horror-comedy that doesn’t really know what it wants to do. It will build up a very tense “Final Destination” style scene and then hit you with an exploding person like a pie to the face. It’s a well done movie, but feels like the script was a Mad Lib Read more

Low budget movies are generally not something generally I seek out, but when they are done well I usually enjoy them. I think embracing your lack of resources is a great way to keep a movie from feeling like it’s low budget, and Murder Party embraces this very well. 95% of the movie takes place Read more

The story here isn’t anything original: A British family heads out to a Scandinavian Island where the locals are…less than friendly. It’s becomes clear that it’s not that simple, however, as people start turning up dead. Soon, the movie shifts gears and the story has flown off the rails. This is good, as I wasn’t Read more

If Jurassic Park and Princess Mononoke had a baby and it was raised by Edgar Wright, this is what you would get. A horror-comedy where most of the comedy comes from interesting ways a unicorn can kill someone, Death of a Unicorn doesn’t take itself seriously at all (other than the subplot of Paul Rudd Read more

The latest in the Kenneth Branagh directed/starring Agatha Christie adaptations, this one based on her book “Hallowe’en Party”. Branagh stars as Hercule Poirot, retired to Venice, having lost his faith in humanity. A writer friend finds him and forces him to attend a Halloween séance of a girl who committed suicide by jumping into the Read more

A folk-y feeling British film, Baghead is about a woman who inherits a countryside tavern when her dad dies, and she finds that there’s a monster woman in the basement that can grant some sort of boon. The movie unfolds pretty quickly, revealing the monster and the history of the people that own the tavern, Read more

Well, my efforts to watch OnlyFangs earlier was thwarted by the fact that it isn’t finished yet, so I chose this earlier film by the same director, featuring a lot of the same cast. This one is super low budget and it shows, It doesn’t have the same charm as a Troma film, but it’s Read more

After my double feature of Infested and Sting as put on hold because “the dog dies” is both (and I’m really not up for that right now), I pivoted and watched this unknown horror action movie from the 90s and Boy is it from the 90s! Brad Doriff is a crazy hacker man working for Read more