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Until Dawn (2025) - Missed Opportunities
Supermassive's Until Dawn video game is agreed to be one of the most horror games on the market. Stuck in development hell for many years, a film adaptation was much anticipated. Unfortunately, the more that was revealed, the more cautious fans became. The film, directed by David F. Sandberg, was not going to follow the game's plot at all; it wasn't even going to keep the game's draw of 'The Butterfly Effect.' Nonetheless, the premise of reliving a night over and over until y

Sophie Turner
Aug 5


Good Boy (2025) - Deserving of the Praise?
The film Good Boy (Ben Leonberg) has been going viral on social media since its first announcement: a horror movie from a dog's point of view. Indeed, the film's star, Indiana (Indy) the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, has set the internet ablaze again by winning best performance at the Astra film awards, beating his human contenders. The question is - is this deserved? The premise of Good Boy is simple; Todd (Shane Jensen) moves back into his recently deceased father's h

Sophie Turner
Jun 24


The Woman in the Yard (2025): Everything Wrong with 'Grief Horror.'
In recent years, arguably since the conception of horror, ghosts and ghoulies have been used as a metaphor for grief. Though plenty of horror fans are tired of this trope, I never thought I'd get enough of it; perhaps it's simply the idea of a second layer to the horror - no matter if it's complex or original. After all, grief is a universal experience. Hence why I was still willing to give 'The Woman in the Yard' (directed by Juame Collet-Serra)a chance. Unfortunately, it hi

Sophie Turner
Jun 17


Nocebo (2022) - Pushing for an Interesting Conversation
Noecbo is a Phillipino-Irish movie produced by Shudder, and does a very good job of being a smaller produced horror movie. Whilst it's not groundbreaking horror, it's certainly worth checking out. Nocebo follows Christine ( Eva Green ), a fashion designer who, after an offscreen incident is struggling to find work and has 101 anxiety disorders. When a helper appears on her doostep, she seems like a fairy Godmother, but Diana ( Chai Fonacier ) has much darker intentions. Noceb

Sophie Turner
Jan 27, 2025


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, 2025


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


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
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