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Smile is based on a supernatural horror film based on a short film, Laura Hasn’t Slept. Smile hopes to join the likes of The Babadook, Oculus, and Lights Out as excellent horror films based on shorts. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is a psychiatrist at an emergency mental health unit. One of her patients is Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey), a 26-year-old post-graduate student who claims to see an […]
Hatching is a Finnish horror film that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. This film acts as a body horror, a psychological piece, and a critique of modern society. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a 12-year-old gymnast who seems to have a perfect family life. Her Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) is a vlogger who projects this image […]
The Invitation is a female-centric horror film that aimed to have a gothic twist. Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) is a struggling artist in New York City. She takes a DNA test and discovers that she’s related to the English aristocracy. This leads to Evie flying out to England to meet her family and attend a wedding. However, there are […]
Based on a short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone sees a Sinister reteaming of Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, and Ethan Hawke for a chilling horror flick. In 1978 a suburb of North Denver is being terrorised by a serial killer. Five boys have gone missing, and Finney (Mason Thames) becomes the sixth child to be […]
Men sees the cult genre filmmaker Alex Garland move into the elevated horror genre. What he delivers is one of the most divisive horror films in a long while. Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) is a recently widowed woman who goes on a two-week vacation in the English Countryside. However, she must deal with the aftermath of […]
Blumhouse, the horror production company, make their first adaptation of a Stephen King, with their version of Firestarter. Charlie McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is an 11-year-old girl who struggles with her pyrokinetic powers. After a bullying incident in school Charlie’s powers get exposed and force the girl to go on the run with her father (Zac […]
The 2010s saw the rise of elevated horror movies. These are horror films that have dramatic elements or a wider theme and have often been well-received by critics. Iris K. Shim has gone to this subgenre for her feature debut, Umma. Amanda (Sandra Oh) is a Korean American woman who lives on a farm with […]
X sees horror filmmaker Ti West and the acclaimed production company A24 team up for the ‘70s set slasher flick. In 1979, a small team of actors and a crew from Houston go to a farm to film a pornographic film. The team included Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), a cocaine-addicted porn star, and her producer boyfriend, […]
The Awakening was an old-fashioned chiller. Released in 2011 it was an atmospheric horror flick. The First World War and Great Influenza Epidemic has caused millions of deaths. By 1921 people in England have started to believe in the supernatural. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a rational sceptic and sets out to disprove the existence of ghosts. Robert Mallory […]
The Black Death was one of the traumatic events in world history. It was a pandemic that has been estimated to have killed between 75 million to 200 million people. This event serves as the backdrop for the Anglo-German horror film Black Death. In 1348 the Black Death is sweeping across England. It has even […]