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Do the Terrifier movies go too far?
Terrifier 3 went viral last Christmas season, reporting walkouts, vomiting and fainting at their preview screenings. The franchise is...

Sophie Turner
Feb 11


Wolf Man (2025) - Simple, but Effective
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

Sophie Turner
Jan 23


Smile (2022) - A Messy Message
Smile (2022) follows the story of Rose Cutter ( Sosie Bacon ), a therapist who witnesses one of her patients commit an awful act in her office. It turns out this patient was plagued by an entity that latches onto whoever witnesses its deadly deeds, creating a train of trauma wherever it goes. The monster takes residence in its victims mind, providing oodles of scares with disturbing hallucinations, including causing its namesake: to make give everyone a wide, unsettling, unbl

Sophie Turner
Mar 25, 2024


Chucky (2021) - A Lot to Talk About
There's a lot to talk about with Chucky, so this is a long one: Some people were excited at the new Chucky T.V series bringing back the...

Sophie Turner
Jun 13, 2022


Us (2019) - You Need to Watch it Twice
When I first watched Us (2019) , my gut reaction at the twist was - not bad, but I didn't like it. (I did, however, love the rest of the movie!) I did the classic thing (which I hate) of googling the ending to have it explained by someone else. And I did, begrudgingly, understand the point Peele was making. I let it sit, and came to the conclusion that we just don't like our 'good guys' to really be 'bad guys.' Which was exactly the question the twist posed - who was 'good'

Sophie Turner
May 30, 2022


Freaks (1932) - What Makes a Horror?
The 1932 film Freaks has been revered as a classic, said to make some people physically ill at its release. As a result, the version we...

Sophie Turner
Apr 11, 2022


Ari Aster and the Horror of Mental Illness
Midsommar begins with a cold open on a murder-suicide. This is an Ari Aster film, after all, and therefore has to be as chock-full of...

Sophie Turner
Oct 23, 2021
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