After the breakout success of horror icon Peachfuzz on the small screen, Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass are back for seconds in Shudder's compelling slice of found footage mayhem. Similar to its debut season, The Creep Tapes finds the mysterious wolf-mask-obsessive "Josef" toying with an array of seemingly doomed victims, working his way through an … Continue reading TV Review: The Creep Tapes – Season 2
Fantastic Fest 2025: V/H/S Halloween
★★★★ Eight movies deep, and still the unexpectedly brilliant found footage V/H/S franchise shows no signs of stopping. The latest, aptly titled V/H/S Halloween, presents a new frontier for a series that constantly reinvents itself with new blood thanks to its anthology format. This time around, the Halloween theme seeps into each separate segment. As … Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2025: V/H/S Halloween
Film Review: Hell House LLC: Lineage
★ For the fifth installment in the unexpected Hell House LLC franchise, creator/writer/director Stephen Cognetti takes us on a convoluted trip through series lore in Hell House LLC: Lineage. Two years after the surprisingly good Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, Cognetti returns in an effort to weave together all the disparate elements of … Continue reading Film Review: Hell House LLC: Lineage
Film Review: Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story
★★★ Unless you've been living in a coffin for the past hundred years, pretty much everyone alive knows the legend of Count Dracula, as told by Bram Stoker. For decades, vampire lore has been spun into televisions shows and countless movies, often remaking the exact same scenario over and over again. Enter: Abraham's Boys: A … Continue reading Film Review: Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story
Overlook 2025: The Ugly Stepsister
★★★★ Grimms’ Fairy Tales told decidedly more disturbing versions of stories than their Disney-fied counterparts. Writer/director Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt takes a page out of the Grimm book when it comes to her take on a classic. Blichfeldt finds an organic way to approach the cost of beauty by diving deep into the nightmarish world of … Continue reading Overlook 2025: The Ugly Stepsister
TV Review: The Creep Tapes
Almost exactly a decade ago, Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass teamed up to create a found footage horror icon. One wolf mask and two movies later, Creep evolved into a full-fledged horror franchise, with a charismatic Duplass at the center of its insanity. Playing a deranged sociopath strangely comes easy for the frequent writer/director, one … Continue reading TV Review: The Creep Tapes
Fantastic Fest 2024: V/H/S Beyond
★★★★ Did anyone know in 2012 that the horror anthology V/H/S was destined to become a long-running franchise? Certainly, all the pieces were there, along with an easily palatable premise rife for exploration. That first film contained all the trademarks of series potential, including a wraparound segment and many not-so-connected scary stories strung together. The seventh … Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2024: V/H/S Beyond
Film Review: In a Violent Nature
★★★ We all know the standard slasher formula by now. Stalking psycho killer, violent slayings, final girl. Rinse and repeat. In a Violent Nature is the first movie to come out in quite some time to significantly shake up the lens through which we view this formula. Writer/director Chris Nash decides to focus specifically on … Continue reading Film Review: In a Violent Nature
Film Review: Stopmotion
★★★★★ Rare is the horror film that actually frightens a seasoned genre viewer, but Stopmotion feels committed to doing just that from the second it begins. This disturbing flick doubles down on nightmarish imagery and psychological torment as its singular vision from writer/director Robert Morgan tightens the chokehold. By focusing on a deeply traumatized young … Continue reading Film Review: Stopmotion
Film Review: Destroy All Neighbors
★★★ Emerging from the depths of Shudder like some long-lost episode of an adult Goosebumps, Destroy All Neighbors wastes no time plunging us down an endless tunnel of depravity. In the opening crawl, audiences are literally thrown into a twisty/turny credits sequence that promises a stylish horror gem. A trio of writers (Charles A. Pieper, … Continue reading Film Review: Destroy All Neighbors