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Companion (2025)
Assured direction, solid performances and a cool concept are sunk by a trite script that is all tell and no show. A lack of horror, thrills or laughs doesn't help either. Mechanical in every way👻
In need of WD40 🤖
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Lord of the Flies (2026)
Another misguided adaptation, this mixes pretty visuals, trite back stories, and a lack of understanding of Golding's intentions to dull effect. Great performances, though 👻
Kill the pig 🐽
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Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023)
The good news? Malcolm McDowell's performance is as bright as the cleaned-up print. The bad news? All the sex, horror, and drama has been scrubbed out. 👻
More muck than Brass 🥴
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Funny, edgy, and wonderfully entertaining, if you enjoy a 50s vibe, catchy songs, and the company of a sadistic dentist, this is the monster movie for you! 👻
Don't feed the plants 🥀
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To Catch a Killer (1992)
A 90s TV series? I know what you're thinking but this has great writing, idiosyncratic direction, and a towering terrifying performance from the late great Brian Dennehy 👻
Don't ya like clowns?🤡
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Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
It has overtones of The Evil Escapes but drops the hilarity of possessed lamps and cats with glowing eyes for solid, if uninspired, supernatural fare. It features Dick Miller though!👻
Tick tock ⏲️
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Sinners (2025)
Shades of From Dusk Till Dawn and 30 Days of Night give way to a startling take on the group-besieged-by-vampires flick. Great direction. Great performances. Great music. Just great!👻
The bloodiest blues 🎸
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The Lighthouse (2019)👻
Great performances and beautiful photography can't save a movie that thinks sturm and drang can replace story. Best avoided unless you find storms scary and farts funny.
Thar he blows! ⛈️
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Until Dawn (2025)
Great production design, gory FX, and Peter Stormare can't save this time-loop plotted movie. Just watch all your fave horror flicks repeatedly instead 👻
Clocking off ⌛
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Little Bone Lodge (2023)
This one starts out all Mum and Dad (2008), morphs into The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and ends like Gangs of London. Ludicrous but entertaining for sure 👻
Buy 1, get 2 free 🦴
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The Menu (2022)
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The menu can just burger off 👨🍳
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The Menu (2022)
A great cast can't rescue this unfunny satire/unscary horror/unthrilling thriller - take your pick. Its biggest mistake, though? Being so boringly predictable👻
Mutton dressed up as lamb👨🍳
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Wolf Man (2025)
A pic that 80s B movies like Just Before Dawn (1981) and Night of the Demon (1980) can look down on, this is a badly plotted mess 👻
More hairy than scary 🐺
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Alien Earth
Channelling Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3, this also has its own identity. Great writing and direction combine with great performances to show there’s life in the old xenomorph yet. An instant classic.
The Perfect Organism 👽
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Terrifier 3 (2024)
Gore, violence, surrealism, weirdness, suspense, scares, and the blackest humor combine in a horror pic made by horror fans for horror fans. Everyone else should cover their eyes ... 👻
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Bone Tomahawk (2016)
Genre mashups tend to be sublime (Alien) or ridiculous ( Plan 9 from Outer Space).. Fortunately, this one's the latter. Brutal, scary, and beautiful, this horror western is an intelligent treat. Gory as hell too!
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The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Based on a #book by Ian McEwan, this has been called Don't Look Now without the little person. In fact it's an adaptation without a clue. No suspense, no thrills, just pretentious speeches. Read the book instead! 👻
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The Watched (2024)
Unnerving direction. Atmospheric photography. Chilling sound design. The performances are great too. But poor world building, including silly gremlins -style rules, and a typical Shyamalan twist quickly distil any suspense.
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Trap (2024)
With more pointless contrivances than a household gadget catalogue, this daft thriller from M. Night Shyamalan contains little that makes sense (sixth or otherwise). Luckily, the mad plot is matched by insane performances👻
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The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
A dark thriller akin to Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs, this is a disturbing serial-killer read that will delight horror fans with it's central idea and unflinching look at the grim underside of LA.
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Possession (1981)
When Chas Balun wrote about the dreaded horror art #film, I wonder if this is what he meant. A cold, stylised #movie, it's like watching someone else's nightmare. Great FX but little else. Just watch Eraserhead again instead.
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The Stone Tape (1972)
Perfect writing combines with perfect performances, perfect direction, and perfect production design to create a scarily perfect TV movie that puts it's cinematic big brothers to shame. Just perfect.
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Afraid (2024)
Less silly than M3gan, this suspenseful thriller plays on our fears of virtual assistants and AI. Writing, directing and acting are solid. The ending is apocalyptic. And it features John Cho. What more do you want?
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Blink Twice (2024)
Great performances shore up a far-too derivative flick. Entertaining enough if you can ignore the contrived plotting and dubious politics, this is less a biting satire than a gnawing skit. I just wanted to Get Out.
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American Gothic (1987)
An '80s rural horror directed by John Hough, starring Yvonne de Carlo, and dripping in dread? What went wrong? A terrible script. Still, if you're a fan of movies where idiots behave idiotically, this is the pic for you.
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The Dark by James Herbert
The usual scares, gore, and extreme violence is here tempered by something Herbert's The Fog lacked: a sense of humor. This is a riveting supernatural epic filled with exciting set pieces. Simply, a great read.
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Longlegs (2024)
Brilliantly directed (searching for superlatives? Can I suggest Fincheresque; Lynchian; Hitchcockian?), this is a visual feast, dark and scary with great performances. A shame then about the poorly plotted script.
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Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
A dubious 1st act (sadism, rape, bestiality) gives way to a dark gothic drama, Handsome production design and solid direction are matched by a frighteningly intense Oliver Reed. Cool makeup too! A Hammer classic.
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