Tag: horror
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Clayface (2026)
Hunky actor Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) has crawled out of Gotham’s most deprived district to become a movie star with best friend Cory Bowers (Joshua James). A night on the town leads to tragedy, however, when he lets himself be seduced by a gangster’s moll, Mia Torrez (Joana Ribeiro). The morning after, he’s disfigured…
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Nightborn (2026)
The English-language debut of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, co-written with Ilja Rautsi, Nightborn stars Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint. They play, respectively, Saga and Jon; she is the daughter of a jet-setting doctor mother (Pirkko Saisio), and he is the son of a vicar (John Thomson, an English comedy star, here in a straight dramatic…
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026)
On Mossy Bottom Farm, the Farmer stumbles home one evening and inadvertently destroys his sheep’s beloved pumpkin patch. This inspires Shaun (the sheep) to experiment with a science book he finds to regrow the pumpkins. As one might expect in the month of Jack-o’-lanterns, the experiment goes wrong and Shaun’s resulting agricultural elixir ends up…
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Obsession (2026)
Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, is the best new film I’ve seen this year and possibly the best adaptation of the Monkey’s Paw tale that’s come my way. It might even be in my top 100 horror movies. Top 50, even. It’s more than a little surprising to be saying this about a Blumhouse joint…
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Black Phone 2 (2025)
About five years after siblings Gwen and Finn defeated the Grabber, a serial killer targeting boys in their neighbourhood, they’re both still troubled by the events. Finn self-medicates with marijuana, while Gwen has dreams of a phone call being made by a Christian camp counsellor in the late 1950s, talking about numbers written on ice…
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Heart Eyes (2025)
Pretty clever mix of slasher and rom-com tropes that, while not a game changer to any degree, is novel enough to help keep the slasher genre going another decade. Slasher films in recent years have been moving more towards comedy than ever before. Post-Scream (1996), these movies were almost always ironic or self-aware to some…
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Companion (2025)
I just saw Companion and it was really good, a clever and comic satirical take on the classic feminist horror The Stepford Wives, the one where post-sexual revolution men replace their strong and intelligent wives with automatons who wax floors in pinnies all day. It’s tough to synopsise Companion, which comes on the heels of Barbarian (2022). (It shares with that…
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Heretic (2024)
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” This quote from Edgar Allan Poe opens John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), but is arguably more applicable to Heretic, the new horror film for Halloween 2024, starring Hugh Grant as an oddball who hosts a couple of young Mormon missionaries straight out…
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The Coffee Table (2022)
A husband, Jesus (pronounced Hey-Zeus, played by David Pareja), and wife, Maria (Estefanía de los Santos), with their newborn baby, are looking to buy a coffee table. The table is composed of two nude women in faux-gold trim supporting a glass top. Clearly, it belongs in a bachelor pad as opposed to a young couple’s…
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Terrifier 3
The basic appeal of the Terrifier films is that they’re of the same crude simplicity as the Friday the 13th franchise (1980 to 2009, as of Halloween 2024) and other Golden Age slashers, but with much more gore that you couldn’t get away with back then. It’s amusing to think of how slashers of yore were pilloried…
