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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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