Yet another film I had seen a lot of buzz about before noticing it pop up on Shudder recently was the 2023 creature feature Infested. It’s a French film, initially released under the title Vermines, and is the full-length directorial debut of Sébastien Vaniček. The movie got overwhelmingly positive reviews and was financially successful during … More Movies: Infested (aka Vermines) (2023)
I figured it had been a minute since I’d gone delving into Shudder’s newer international fare, so I took a quick look around the internet for some recommendations on the best films currently available on the platform. And pretty universally at the top of many horror sites’ lists was the 2024 South Korean supernatural folk … More Movies: Exhuma (2024)
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the horror landscape back in 2014 with her outstandingly creepy and well-received metaphorical horror film The Babadook (which I reviewed here), so when it came time for her sophomore effort to hit theaters, the community was abuzz, wondering what spooky delights she would come up with this time around. … More Movies: The Nightingale (2018)
As you guys who have been around for a while are aware, I’ve been (very) slowly making my way through the 1960s Thriller series, hosted by Boris Karloff. Though up to now I’ve been making posts and videos discussing six episodes at a time (a tradition I started for reasons I can’t even remember now), … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episode 7 – “The Last of the Sommervilles”
There was a bit of a convoluted path to how I ended up watching the 2022 thriller Resurrection. Just a bit ago, I watched and reviewed Ti West’s excellent 2023 film Pearl, and afterward, I was watching some YouTube videos from my favorite horror channels about the movie to get some more perspectives on it. … More Movies: Resurrection (2022)
Some time ago, I discussed Ti West’s 2022 retro, porno-tinged slasher X, which I absolutely adored. What many people didn’t know at the time that film came out, however, was that West had co-written a script (with Mia Goth) for a prequel to X as he was working on that film, and even began production … More Movies: Pearl (2022)
Years back, I saw a 1997 thriller called Nightwatch that starred Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolte. I remembered it being pretty decent, and I also vaguely remembered that it was an English-language remake of a foreign film, so I always resolved to check out the original at some point in time. … More Movies: Nightwatch (1994)
Director Alex Garland was back on my mind recently as I went to the theater to see his latest film Civil War (which we discussed at length here). I remembered how much I had loved his previous films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), not to mention the fact that he had written the screenplay … More Movies: Men (2022)
The 2023 English/German horror film Baghead (not to be confused with the 2008 horror comedy of the same name directed by the Duplass Brothers) dropped on Shudder in April of 2024, and there seemed to be a bit of buzz around it, so I was curious to give it a look. I will say right … More Movies: Baghead (2023)
Starting a couple of weeks back, I was hearing a lot of people in the horror community suddenly talking up the 2022 Spanish film The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor), which according to many reviewers is one of the most traumatizing films to come out in recent years. Because of all the buzz … More Movies: The Coffee Table (2022)
The Scare Salon 