Happy Halloween! What better way to celibrate than by reading a review of a hugely popular, notoriously violent film set on the holiday! Whether you know and love this one, or this review is the closest you'd ever dare get to experiencing it, I hope you'll enjoy the final entry in 2025's 31 Movies in 31 Days (which was really 16 movies, but what are you gonna do?) There is little doubt that the most buzzed about new horror franchise of the past decade has been the Terrifier

Let’s see what happens when you smash together two of the most formulaic movie genres into the same film. Did I end up with hearts in my eyes, or ‘X’s? All styles of film have their conventions and tropes. They are actually really helpful for storytelling, because they grant creators a form of shorthand so they don’t have to expend as much energy establishing the rules and boundaries of their worlds. They also establish expectations, which are a prerequisite if you want to ge

I watched the first Child's Play as a pre-teen, and I don't think I've ever seen a sequel. Better late than never (he asks, with cautious optimism)? The original Child's Play was one of my earliest forays into watching horror. I would have been in middle school, and it presented a pretty silly and safe opportunity to dip my toe into the eighties slasher pool. I have fond memories of the movie, but it didn't leave a strong enough impression to inspire a re-visit even through

I didn't expect the next Carrie , but I hoped for a reasonable facsimile of Prom Night II. Turns out I didn't even get a reasonable...