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Godzilla Minus One (2023) Review

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity: 🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Godzilla Minus One: Oh, my... Godzilla! Takahashi Yamazaki created a powerful, emotionally resonant, and visually spectacular film. More than any other film in this esteemed franchise run, Godzilla is a reflection of a country in catharsis. It is steeped in survivor's guilt, post-traumatic shock disorder, family bonds, and the restoration of a nation's belief in itself... by way of Kaiju. As a film-going experience, this will get your blood pumping. Go see it on the biggest screen possible.

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Joseph’s Review: Death of Me

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ It’s folk horror island style in the latest from Darren Lynn Bousman. Engaging performances and an...
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Daydreamers (2025) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity: 🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Daydreamers (Nguoi Mat Troi) announces that Vietnamese horror has arrived, boldly and with style. It takes the traditional Western tropes of vampires and packages them in a wholly Vietnamese wrapper. Two vampire brothers have taken different paths in their acceptance of vampirism. The older brother, Marco, revels in the power that is bestowed upon him. His younger brother Nhat seeks freedom from the restrictions and curse of vampirism and seeks to become human again. Themes of family honor, redemption, recovery, betrayal, and forbidden love play strongly throughout the film.

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Eric’s Review: The Last Thanksgiving (2020) [Another Hole in the Head FF]

★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ The Last Thanksgiving is a gory '80s style slasher film that works on the decidedly soft premise that the Pilgrims succumbed to cannibalism to make it through the first Thanksgiving, and their descendants continue that tradition 400 years later. It delivers well on the hyper-violence, but it falls rather flat with character and plot. This is an empty calorie Thanksgiving feast.
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Lucky (2020) Review (Nightstream Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ May (Brea Grant) is an author who finds herself under repeated attack by a mysterious would-be killer. She mounts successful defense after successful defense, but each time she wins, the assassin disappears. It's an exercise of frustration and futility for May as nobody believes her and her proof proves to be elusive.
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Undertone review (2026)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25 out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Intensity 🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

If the new A24 film Undertone is considered to be “liminal horror” then count me as a true blue liminal horror fan. Operating in between the spaces, notes, and shadows, this is a film that evokes surreal and unsettling perspectives from — the nothingness.

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Joseph’s Review: The Owners

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Three home invaders and a hapless girlfriend break into the wrong house in this sinister, often...
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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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Robert’s Review: Yule Log (2022)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ancient curses! Decapitation! Time travel! Hillbillies! Rental property! Aliens! If you're a fan of absurdist horror/comedy, this one's right up your alley.
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Eric’s Review: Cargo (2017)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Proving that there's more life yet in the living dead genre, Cargo offers up some of the most sympathetic protagonists the genre has seen in years. Also, check out the short film that was the basis of this movie!
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Eric’s Review: A Quiet Place Part II

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A worthy sequel to the science-fiction horror modern classic. A Quiet Place Part II is very much an extension of the first movie. It feels like one continuous story. Intense, expertly crafted, and wonderfully acted, this movie doesn't break a lot of new ground but it builds upon what the original did so well. It's a first-rate thrill ride!
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Eric’s FilmQuest Review: Finale (2019)

★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ This savage and grisly new Danish production features a carefully threaded story line that follows two young women, stuck working at a lonely rural gas station, who are subjected to what at first appears to be creepy pranking turns into something wholly sinister. This movie will reward hardened horror fans. Not for the faint of heart!
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Joseph’s Review: Torn Hearts 

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Horror icon Brea Grant delivers a great-looking film with one cowboy-boot–wearing foot in modern gothic horror territory and the other in slasher-style fare, loading Nashville music scene chiller Torn Hearts with commentary on the price of fame.
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Jakob’s Wife (2021) Review (SXSW Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸 for vampiric violence

Jakob's Wife is an essay on a mid-life menopausal crisis, by way of vampirism. Jakob's Wife delivers great character arcs and engaging acting. Barbara Crampton has been given a meaty role, and she delivers perhaps her best screen performance in memory. Larry Fessenden also is stellar as the well intentioned minister Jakob.

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Eric’s Review: Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ What separates a truly iconic horror film and raises it above its peers? Master documentarian Alexandre Phillipe makes a compelling argument that adhering to classical and even ancient themes can make the difference, and he casts Alien into a whole different light. Phillipe once again delivers a beautifully crafted breakdown and makes for a really compelling watch for fans of Alien.
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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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Eric’s Review: Meatball Machine (2005)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Ugly, vulgar, obnoxious, and totally entertaining. Meatball Machine has perfected the low-brow J-Horror splatter-fest. You don't get more gonzo than this!
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The BEST Horror Movies of 2024: Mike’s List

If "meh" was a year...it'd be 2024. Post pandemic, political strife, the lingering effects of the writer and director's strikes, the rise of AI, and the violation of the most sacrosanct American icon -- Mickey Mouse. While there was a lot of great genre content being churned out in 2024, the highs weren't really high and the lows weren't terrible low. This year sat right in the middle of a rather tepid bell curve.
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Eric’s Review: Agatha (2022 Another Hole in the Head Film Festival)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Agatha resides at the intersection of an experimental art piece and a horror movie. Knowing that, you know how to proceed with this film. Agatha is visually stunning but ultimately difficult to process at times. It is mesmerizing and dreamy and entirely devoid of dialogue, so your attention span will be tested. Ultimately if you like visually poetic and painterly films, this will be your bag.
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New Life (2024) Review (Overlook FF)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸🩸out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

A bloodied woman on the run begins a frantic chase in John Rosman's debut thriller, New Life. This film holds its cards tight for half the movie, allowing the major implications of the plot lines to simmer before revealing the root causes of the pursuit, like a bomb drop. New Life transitions from political thriller to body horror in a dramatic shift that moved me from curious to engrossed.

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Mike’s Review: CAM (2018)

★★.5 out of ★★★★★ It should come as no surprise, but technology’s bad.  It’s, well, surprising how many times we...
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