In Review
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Film Review - Keeper
Oz Perkins’s Keeper is a film that wears its intentions on its sleeve: intimate horror wrapped in relationship anxiety, an exercise in dread that occasionally achieves something quietly memorable.
Film Review - Shelby Oaks
Shelby Oaks is a fine horror film with flashes of promise, but too many inherited ideas and not enough discernible passion.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Deathgasm II: Goremageddon
Where the first film offsets its crude side with a palpably warm heart, Goremageddon plays like a reunion tour that’s fun for the diehards, but very much has the air of desperation that comes with one final hurrah.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Shell
Through a series of confounding creative decisions, Shell decries superficiality, yet refuses to look anything less than polished.
Film Review - Black Phone 2
Arriving a mere two years after the first film scared up a minor success at the box office, Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 leans into its lineage and then sharpens its teeth […]
Film Review - The Strangers: Chapter 2
If you’re absolutely craving a modern slasher, wait to stream it with friends, popcorn, and maybe a beer or two, but just don’t expect too much in the way of carnage or catharsis.
Film Review - The Conjuring: Last Rites
Even though Last Rites' final moments were somewhat heart-warming as a fan of the first two, its catharsis is wasted on something which could’ve been so much better.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - We Bury the Dead
Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead is a moody, slow-burning horror drama that leans into atmosphere and emotional weight over cheap thrills - and for the most part, it works.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - It Ends
Genre fans looking for a siege of monsters and otherworldly horrors may come away disappointed, but those looking for a more cerebral and borderline ethereal experience will likely find themselves embracing the film and its scrappy charm.
Film Review - Weapons
Every once in a while, a film manages to thread the needle between nerve-shredding horror and sharp, genuinely funny comedy without ever feeling forced or careless. Zach Cregger’s Weapons is resoundingly one of those rare beasts.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - Chain Reactions/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Chain Reactions is a celebration of the 50 year anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Film Review - Together
Together explores the cracks and crevices, the dark and dirty parts of relationships, asking the questions that we’re too afraid to ask ourselves
Film Review - M3GAN 2.0
Blumhouse’s fave bratty ‘bot returns in Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN 2.0, a sequel that swaps the eerie off-kilter vibes of the original for a broader, brasher techno-thriller.
Film Review - The Shrouds
The Shrouds presents potential by reeling in its audience at the beginning, but then loses its grip on them far too soon.
Film Review - 28 Years Later
28 Years Later clearly wants to put brains back on the menu, even if it stumbles along the way.
Film Review - Dangerous Animals
Despite its pitfalls, Dangerous Animals still manages to thoroughly entertain for its full duration […]
Brunswick Underground Film Fest 2025 Review - Frankenhooker
Ultimately, Frankenhooker is the kind of film that refuses to be ignored. It’s loud, garish, and unapologetically grotesque, yet like its oddball protagonist, it manages to be weirdly endearing, despite the rampant sex and violence […]
Film Review - Bring Her Back
It's clear the Philippou brothers have crafted a horror experience that doesn’t just scare - it leaves wounds. If Talk to Me was a party, Bring Her Back is a funeral. Leave the flowers at home.
Brunswick Underground Film Fest 2025 Review - Bum
Low on budget but high on ambition, BUM represents the exact type of cinema I wish I was exposed to more in high school, the kind of art that makes you realise just how few roadblocks might actually be between your concepts and the actual execution of your first feature film.
Film Review - Final Destination: Bloodlines
For those looking for horror cinema that mostly leans on the goofy side while also delivering on some serious gore, Final Destination: Bloodlines is just what the coroner ordered.