Terrifier 3 Review (2024)

★★★ out of ★★★★★

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This one’s a real puzzler. On the one hand it’s a full-on gross-out B-movie, with questionable acting and an equally questionable plot. On the other hand Terrifier 3 is a real achievement. The gore is certainly like nothing you’ve ever seen before — unless you already watched Terrifier 1 and 2 -- and the mean-spirited depravity is something to behold. This is a film that would have Herschell Gordon Lewis, Tom Savini, and Lucio Fulci hunched over a stain-soaked toilet.

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Your Monster (2024) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity: 🩸.5 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Your Monster is that rare Horror Rom-Com that succeeds on multiple levels. It takes the breakup film and mashes it up with the Beauty and the Beast and Imaginary Friend tropes. And then it pours madness sauce on top. The comedy hits. The romance is likable and endearing. And, though it saves the horror for quite a long stretch, Your Monster eventually delivers a great coup de grace of horror.

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The Best Horror Movies of 2024: Episode 192

Well, that was fun! 2024, though it started slow, managed to pack in quite a few worthy films. The six critics of The Scariest Things debated who deserved a spot in the top 10, and there was a wide spread of picks. There were a few standouts most of us agreed to, but to find out, you'll have to listen to the podcast!
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The BEST Horror Movies of 2024: Eric’s List

With the New Year on us, it is time to rate the best horror movies of 2024. What initially appeared to be a tough year for the genre turned itself around late. This year won't be as impactful as last year, but it had some terrific films at the front of the pack that fans will remember and cherish.
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Nosferatu (2024) Review

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Nosferatu is a staggering accomplishment. Visually stunning, with sublime acting, Nosferatu is everything you would hope for in a horror costume drama. It helps that the director is the master of the period-piece horror movie.

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The Damned (2024) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Feeling cold and isolated this time of year? The Damned (2024) will happily add paranoid and hungry to your list! Icelandic folk tales and psychological horror combine in this frosty tale of desperate 19th century survival.
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Olivia Hussey In Memoriam (1951-2024) : The Original Final Girl

The horror world just lost an icon. Olivia Hussey has passed away at age 73. Known to most for her portrayal of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1968), at the peak of her career, Hussey starred in one of the most pivotal movies in horror history, Black Christmas (1974). Before Laurie Strode and Sally Hardesty, there was Jess Bradford. Jess became the standard for the modern final girl in horror slasher films.
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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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The Scariest Things Singalong: Horror Musicals: Episode 191

Horror Musicals: When they work they are next-level works of art. It's some of the worst material ever created when they don't work. Eric cajoled/dragged Liz and Mike to participate in evaluating one of his favorite sub-genres, the Horror Musical. A spotify soundtrack list is included in this post for you to hear the songs from the films we discuss in Ep 191.
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Crust (2024) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Obviously, the world has been yearning for a monster made from the forgotten socks left at a laundromat. Yearn no longer, world!
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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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Made-for-TV Horror Movies: Episode 190

Once upon a time, the major broadcast television networks used to produce feature films for their movies of the week. Many of the great made-for-tv horror movies have found new audiences with restored Blu-Ray issuances and streaming options, giving some long-lost classics a new lease on viewing life.
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Blackout (2024) Review

★★1/2 out of ★★★★★

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Blackout is a fair-to-middling werewolf movie. With much respect to horror Godfather Larry Fessenden, this movie struggles to get out of second gear. The werewolf makeup is effective, and there are some gory scares, but weak supporting characters and excessive exposition bogs down this effort.

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Joseph’s Review: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

The Girl with the Needle is one of the darkest, most haunting, and most moving horror-adjacent films in recent memory.

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Azrael (2024) Review

⭐️⭐️1/2
Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Movies with no dialog. Are we calling this a trend now? It seems like making a movie isn't enough of a challenge for some folks so they're upping the ante and going speechless. Albeit with mixed results.

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The Substance Review (2024)

★★★★.5 out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Be. Careful. What. You. Wish. For. The most quaint and playful of all the horror tropes is on full display in this masterful piece of body horror. Not your run of the mill body horror either. This is capital “B” body horror that would even make David Cronenberg blush. 

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Daniel Jordan as Jitters

Trailer Alert! JITTERS

We've got the first look teaser trailer for writer-director Marc Zammit’s new feature film Jitters as it nears the end of production. Let's go, British horror!
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Naomi Scott in Smile 2

Smile 2 (2024) Review

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The first installment focused on world building and investigating the great mythology behind the story. This time around writer/director Parker Finn gives us spectacle.
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The Criterion Collection -The Horror Catalog: Episode 189

Cinephiles and physical media collectors, this episode is for you! The Criterion Collection has been the premiere distributor of cinematic excellence for decades. Did they find room for horror? Yes, they did! It is a very select group of films, but you might be surprised at some of the inclusions. Here are our picks from their horror library.
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The Letter (2024) Review: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

★★★.5 out of ★★★★★

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The Letter sumptuously recreates the era of H.P. Lovecraft's 1930's New England. This languidly paced mystery feels like a Call of Cthulhu adventure, set in an elaborate mansion, and stocked with scheming characters with old grudges. This little indie film has big aspirations and ambitions but could have used a little streamlining. Prepare yourselves for lots of exposition and dark musings in period dialogue, while appreciating the fine details and rich textures.

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Tony Todd (1954-2024): A Horror Retrospective

The Horror Community lost a Titan on Friday. Tony Todd, The Candyman, passed away at age 69 from complications of a lingering illness. He was the most iconic black character horror actor in history. The gravelly-voiced performer boasted over 256 IMdB acting credits to his name, but he will be remembered mostly for his horror roles that he was in from 1986 up to this day. The Scariest Things presents a review of his most iconic roles.

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