Category: Horror
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Forbidden Fruits: A Delicious Return to Camp Horror
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Forbidden Fruits (2026) Meredith Alloway Though I may be a legit film critic now, I’m not at the level yet where I’m going to film festivals. That didn’t stop me from getting introduced to Forbidden Fruits, and keeping my eye on it as it did pretty well at SXSW. The cast looked great here, and I was excited to try something a bit out of my comfort…
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The Bride!: Swinging for the Fences and Grounding Out
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Bride! (2026) Maggie Gyllenhaal I’ve had a pretty big Franken-week, having watched the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein earlier in the week in preparation for The Bride! today. I was left a bit disappointed by the titular Bride’s absence in her film debut, so I was actually kind of hopeful for this movie. I knew I’d at least see her on the screen a lot more, and she was being…
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Iron Lung: The YouTuber-to-Filmmaker Pipeline is Safe
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Iron Lung (2026) Mark Fischbach Over the last week, I’ve become unexpectedly interested in the directorial debut of one Markiplier, reading articles and watching interviews and even his Let’s Plays of Iron Lung from a few years ago. I think the idea of a YouTuber jumping into filmmaking appeals to me, especially when Mark Fischbach is doing just about everything to get this movie to the country, from…
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Send Help: Raimi and McAdams Thriving on Survival
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Send Help (2026) Sam Raimi As I’ve become a bigger cinephile over the last few years, I’ve had a couple instances where I accidentally start an actor or director’s filmography in a really unconventional place. That’s what’s happened with Sam Raimi and Send Help today. I haven’t seen any of the original Spider-Man trilogy (I’m so sorry), nor have I seen any of the Evil Dead movies, so Send Help became the first Sam…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2: If Chuck E. Cheese Didn’t Have a Soul
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) Emma Tammi Most of the movies that I want to see over my Christmas break come out on or after Christmas, so this weekend is kind of bare. Given that, it makes sense that Morgan and I tagged along with Abby and her friends to see Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 tonight, even though I dragged it through the mud in my Ella McCay review. Equally fortunately and…
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Frankenstein (2025): It’s Alive (Cinema, That Is)! ALIVE!
Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo del Toro I had been itching to watch Frankenstein for the last two weeks, but Morgan’s nursing schedule and the plethora of theater releases I needed to attend to kept us from it until tonight. I read Frankenstein in high school and enjoyed it, but I don’t think it (nor my viewing of Young Frankenstein in October) prepared me for how much I would love this. What stood out earliest, of course, were the…
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Shelby Oaks: Found Footage and Talent
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Shelby Oaks (2024) Chris Stuckmann I’ve been a big Chris Stuckmann fan for the last few years, so when he announced he was working on a movie—and when that movie eventually got picked up by Neon—I was stoked. Fortunately, I’ve broken my personal horror movie seal since then, so I headed to the theater excitedly today instead of begrudgingly. For a debut, Shelby Oaks was a valiant effort,…
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HIM: Decidedly Not Him
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. HIM (2025) Justin Tipping I’m trying to get back on the cinematic path this weekend after a month or so of very inconsistent watching, and it’s all starting with HIM today, which I gradually took interest in since I first saw the trailer. What I imagined would be an interesting, novel genre-bender backed by reliable Jordan Peele turned out to be quite the opposite. While certainly novel and…
