Life is short and precious. And unfortunately sometimes I watch a horror movie that is such an utter waste of time I feel ashamed of wasting an hour and a half of precious time watching it. I expected Freaked, directed by Tom Stern & Alex Winter, to fall into this category. Wonderfully, it didn't. Freaked follows conceited former child actor Ricky (Alex Winter), as he takes a questionable endorsement for fertiliser, travelling to 'Santa Flan' with friend Ernie (Michael Stoyan

The Ugly Stepsister (directed by Emilie Blichfeldt) was one of my most anticipated films this year; so much so that I brought a subscription for Shudder especially. The Norwegian film made headlines for making viewers physically ill at Cannes film festival and was marketed as 'Cronenberg meets Cinderella.' A winning combo, especially off the back of 'The Substance.' The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira (Lea Myren) as her mother (Ane Dahl Torp) remarries a gentleman for financia

Wolf Man (2025) is the second in the Universal Monster Movies 'remakes,' follwing The Invisible Man (2020) and the second to be directed by Leigh Whannell . Though they're calling them remakes, they're new takes on tales that have been told several times; in this case, the werewolf movie. And Whannell's Wolf Man is The Classic Werewolf Movie. The premise is simple: a family head to a man's estranged father's cabin to collect his belongings, and in doing so he gets scratche

A while ago, I wrote about how I was done with the Saw series after the third installment of the franchise . I don't think I mentioned it...

Look, Bad Hair (2020) knows it has a silly premise and bonkers story. But it leans into it with humour and fun. And said silly premise? A...

As good as that scene is, if you've just thrown your friend, who has a flesh-eating virus, into a shed to die a lonely death, and then...

Hostel (2005) has been praised for body horror and a concept that will make you think twice about that lad's holiday to a dodgy hotel....

It’s hard to talk about The Perfection (2018), because the twists of the film are what make it stand out from the crowd. This isn’t in...

Rabid (2019) is a remake of the Cronenburg classic, in which a woman’s surgery after a devastating accident has some concerning side...

Left dissatisfied with Bite (2015), I was directed to Cronenberg’s The Fly. This is one of the movies where I cannot think of a lot to...

Bite(2015) was on a list of movies that 'apparently' made people sick when watching them. So, of course I had to give it a viewing, and...

After watching Rabid, I was dying to check out the Soska’s sisters other body horror: American Mary. (2012) It naturally falls into the...

Not to sound like a Youtube video Essay video, but Clown (directed by Jon Watts, 2014) should be talked about more. The premise of the...

Penny’s transformation in American Horror Story: Freak Show was probably the scene in that series that disturbed me the most. So when I...