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…
In a season when pumpkins glow and costumes lurk in every window, V/H/S Halloween barges into the party wearing a leather mask, wielding a chainsaw, and unzipping your frontal lobe for fun. The eighth entry in the V/H/S series finally embraces its namesake night, and the result is a gloriously deranged anthology that mashes scares,…
In a cinematic landscape crowded with haunted houses and screaming teenagers, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy takes a wildly inventive turn by giving the floor, or rather, the paw, to its most unlikely hero: a dog named Indy. Told from the perspective of this loyal Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Good Boy is the haunted house…
Based on the acclaimed novella by Stephen King (writing under his Richard Bachman pseudonym), The Long Walk is a dystopian horror thriller that transforms a chillingly simple idea into something emotionally profound. In a crumbling post-war America, fifty teenage boys are chosen to take part in a deadly contest: walk at a steady pace without…
After his breakout success with 2022’s Barbarian, writer-director Zach Cregger returns with Weapons, a sprawling, genre-blending horror mystery that cements his status as one of the most exciting voices in modern genre filmmaking.
The legacy sequel trend continues, and this time it’s the fisherman’s turn. After a shaky franchise history that includes a tepid sequel and a forgettable straight-to-video instalment, 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer attempts to revive the property with a modern, self-aware slasher that pays homage to its 1997 roots. Unfortunately, it gets…
More than two decades since 28 Days Later rewired the circuits of zombie horror, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the franchise they helped define with the bold, bizarre, and unrelenting 28 Years Later. In a cinematic landscape crowded with end-of-the-world stories, this long-awaited third entry slices through the noise with startling intensity and…