The town of Derry, Maine has always harbored something rotten underneath its surface, and HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry dives deeper into that darkness than ever before. Acting as a prequel to the Andy Muschietti-directed films It and It: Chapter Two, this series explores not just the origins of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, but also…
Man Finds Tape is another entry into the always-divisive world of found footage horror, but this time with some genuinely fresh ideas buried beneath the static. Written and directed by Paul Gandersman and Peter S. Hall, and backed by producers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless, Something in the Dirt), the film toys with…
If Osgood Perkins had his own menu, the main dish would be “slow-cooked dread served cold.” With Keeper, the director adds another course to his horror repertoire – one that is quiet, off-kilter, and baked through with creeping tension and a suspicious dessert. Tatiana Maslany stars as Liz, a painter who heads off to the…
It has been a few years now since we returned to the world of the Yautja with Prey, a film so well received that some fans even declared it better than the 1987 original. They were wrong of course, but it was still pretty good. When director Dan Trachtenberg was announced to return for more…
In Chris Stuckmann’s feature debut Shelby Oaks, one woman digs into the past to find answers about her missing sister, only to discover that some things are better left buried. The story follows Mia, played by Camille Sullivan, who is still haunted by the disappearance of her younger sister Riley over a decade earlier. Riley…
One of the most controversial horror thrillers of the 1990s has finally arrived in the UK. Treasured Films have dug deep into the vault to resurrect Mikey, a film that has hovered in the shadows of cult status since its original release. Long whispered about due to its connection with tragic real-life events, this is…
Some slashers wear hockey masks, some wear William Shatner’s face. This one wears a top hat, waves the flag, and really hates people who disrespect America. Uncle Sam, the 1996 cult curio from director William Lustig and screenwriter Larry Cohen, has marched its way into 88 Films’ Slasher Classics Collection, and for fans of red,…
In Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s stylish and wickedly entertaining horror Bone Lake, a romantic weekend away turns into an intoxicating mix of lust, laughter and absolute mayhem. It opens with a naked couple sprinting through the forest while an unseen attacker fires arrows at them, and within minutes there is a very unfortunate injury involving a…
When The Black Phone first rang in 2021, few expected the eerie little supernatural thriller to spawn one of horror’s most talked about villains in years. Ethan Hawke’s sinister child snatching magician The Grabber joined the pantheon of modern horror icons, then promptly got his neck snapped. Now The Black Phone 2 answers the call,…
Coyotes is the sort of film that saunters into your streaming queue wearing aviators, holding a flaming stick, and whispering something about climate collapse while chucking raw meat at Justin Long. It is a creature feature, a comedy, a satire, and at times a fever dream with fangs. The film lands somewhere between social commentary…