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#ChadGetsTheAxe (2022) Review

⭐️⭐️1/2 out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Intensity 🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸


Horror/comedy #ChadGetsTheAxe brings together four social media influencers as they live stream their exploration of a notorious 'murder house'. Does the event bring them all the fame and fortune they crave or is it true that #ChadGetsTheAxe?

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#Manhole (Fantasia 2023) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 #Manhole is a tense thriller that will keep your guessing until the very end.
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#Shakespeare’s Shitstorm (2020) (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival)

★1/2 out ★★★★★ If you have a conventional sense of social norms.

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ if you are a Troma fan and appreciate trashy and depraved satire.

Inensity: 🩸🩸 for scatalogical nastiness

Lloyd Kaufman and team Troma return to their Shakespearean roots and turn this loose-bowel take on The Tempest into a skewering of the social norms of today's culture. This is the strongest, funniest, and most consistent Troma film I have seen since the '80s Troma glory days but it also pushes the censorship limbo bar so low that there may not be room to go more lowbrow than this.

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28 Years Later Review (2025)

★★★★ of ★★★★★

Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

28 Years Later is an exceptional cinematic achievement replete with iPhone footage, goat cams, and lots of drone footage. The problem is Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s non-sequitur approach to the film has audiences ending up feeling like they’ve watched three films instead of one. Each act of the film ends up almost being an entirely different film.

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40 Acres (2025) Review: Overlook FF

★★★★.5 out of ★★★★★

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The post-apocalyptic Canadian survival tale 40 Acres is a savage and emotional story that tests the boundaries of Darwinian society at the brink. In the end, when countries and governments fail, the family unit survives. This movie has increased prominence due to the current tensions between Canada and the US. The sense of dread only increases when the plausibility factor of this story has increased tenfold in recent months. The plot mirrors a thrilling opening scene with a devastating closing act, which stacks the deck heavily against our protagonists. Pulses will pound.

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A Blind Bargain (2025) Review: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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Betrayal. At its core, A Blind Bargain is a movie about the worst kind of betrayal you can imagine. Desperation and greed convince a young and troubled Vietnam veteran to submit his own mother to the schemes of a mad scientist. This groovy '70s retro thriller takes a cosmic turn through life-extending experimentation. This was the centerpiece movie of the 2025 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

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A Creature Was Stirring (2023) Review

★★1/2 out of ★★★★★

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I will give points to A Creature Was Stirring (2023) for trying to do something that was original. A were-porcupine (A Porcupinecanthrope?) is a new addition to the monster lexicon. It's a parenting horror piece. Also, a home invasion. And a drug horror story. The problem is that in execution, it never finds its proper footing, and the narrative gets lost.

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A Haunting in Venice (2023) Review

★★★ out of ★★★★★ If a film title contains the word “haunting” does that automatically qualify it as a horror film? Horror has a deep and weird history with “The Haunting of…” films.  Haunting in Connecticut, The Enfield Haunting, Haunting of Bly Manor, Haunting of Hill House, the Haunting of Julia, and even the Haunting of Sharon Tate. So many hauntings. 
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A Mother’s Embrace (2024) Review: Beyond Fest

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸1/2 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Director Cristian Ponce's terrific Brazilian chiller A MOTHER'S EMBRACE weaves an eerie nursing home filled with mysterious residents, something weird winding through water, and trauma from childhood into a suspenseful, mysterious work with a riveting third act.

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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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A Quiet Place: Day One scales up the franchise experience in a big way, but it still delivers a wonderfully intimate story. Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn make for an improbable but appealing pair that radiates empathy amongst the chaos of an alien invasion apocalypse.

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A Safe Distance (2026): SXSW Review - Two women walking through a dense forest, exploring themes of.

A Safe Distance (2026): SXSW Review

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸1/2 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

A young woman abandoned in the forest falls in with a pair of bank robbers in Canadian thriller A SAFE DISTANCE.

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Abigail (2024) Review (Overlook Film Festival)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★

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Abigail pits a group of misfit criminals up against their captive, a little ballerina dancer named Abigail. Much to their surprise, she's a powerful vampire. The movie is action packed, with plenty of gore and laughs, but is a station to station production that while fun, telegraphs its moves well in advance. It's empty calories, but, for many fans, sometimes this is exactly what you crave.

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Abruptio (2023) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸🩸

What do you get when you combine the voice talents of Sid Haig, Jordan Peele, and Robert Englund with a cast of creepy life-size puppets and a story that might as well have been written by Philip K Dick? It’s called Abruptio.

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After Midnight (2019) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸 for violence and slow-burning self-destruction

After Midnight is a languid, beer-soaked monster metaphor for a romantic relationship in freefall. It's a well-executed break-up movie, with terrific indie horror bona-fides, but it is also certainly not for your average horror movie fan.

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Alien: Romulus (2024) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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I'm not the first to write this, and I won't be the last. Alien: Romulus plays like a greatest hits album... in space. It is a return to form, for those pining for the feels of the first two movies. At times, it can feel a bit fan-service heavy, but Fede Alvarez knows a thing or two about how to craft a scary horror film. We are graced with two of the best new characters to be added to the franchise: River and Andy, who you lock into from their first moments on the screen.

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Aliens Expanded (2024) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
If you or someone you know is still quoting lines from Aliens (1986) or gives it a regular re-watch, this is the perfect accompaniment you didn't know you were missing.
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Alma and the Wolf (2025) Review : PHFF

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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Alma and the Wolf spins a strange and surprising story that weaves themes of unfulfilled dreams and dark secrets. Ethan Embry, Li Jun Li, and the rest of the cast provide an emotionally poignant and ultimately tragic fable. Part psychological thriller, part folk horror, this film may be the best showcase of Embry's acting chops in his extensive filmography. This movie was the opening film at the Portland Horror Film Festival.

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American Dollhouse (2026): Overlook Film Festival Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

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American Dollhouse is what you get when a slow-burning liminal horror film decides to step on the gas and slams you into psycho murder madness. Sarah is a woman who hasn't been given many breaks in her life. When she inherits her dilapidated childhood home, she thinks she has struck the lottery. Unfortunately, the house retains awful memories, and worse yet, has a psychotic neighbor who has a strange obsession with her. Tensions rise as the neighbor's behavior escalates into violence, pushing Sarah deeper into a nightmare that threatens everything around her.

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