Art the Clown returns for a third entry in the Terrifier series and tortures and kills his way through Miles County. Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) has been released from a psychiatric hospital, having suffered from trauma and survivor’s guilt. Sienna moves in with her Aunt Jessica (Margaret Anne Florence) and her family during Christmas. Sadly, […]
Tag: slasher film
Thanksgiving Review
Many holidays have suffered from cinematic slasher villains. Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day are some of the most notable. Eli Roth has added to this seasonal sub-genre with his tongue-in-cheek gore fest Thanksgiving. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Black Friday sales at Right Mart go horribly wrong due to a lack of security, a group of […]
Scream VI Review
Ghostface returns for a sixth entry in the Scream series. This time he terrorises the citizens of New York City. Since the events of Scream (2022), Sam (Melissa Barrera) and Tara (Jenna Ortega) have moved to New York to escape Woodsboro. Another pair of killers dress up as Ghostface and plan to kill the Carpenter sisters so they […]
M3GAN Review
M3GAN sees two giants of the horror genre, Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster team up for a high-tech version of Chucky. Gemma (Allison Williams) is a robotics expert who works at the toy company Funki. Gemma’s life is altered forever when her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident and she must take care […]
Christmas Bloody Christmas Review
Christmas Bloody Christmas is an original film for Shudder and sees the Santa slasher subgenre get a high-tech twist. Tori (Riley Dandy) is a record store owner and Robbie (Sam Delich) is her employee. They plan to spend their Christmas Eve drinking and partying. Their plans get horribly interrupted when the robotic Santa in the toy […]
X Review
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, […]
Scream (2022) Review
Wes Craven’s original Scream was a genre-defining masterpiece. Prior to its 1996 release, mainstream horror was pretty much dead. Audiences had grown tired of the increasingly ludicrous sequels popular franchises were churning out at that point. The only move left was to make a horror movie about horror movies. Through its meta deconstruction of slasher […]
Freaky Review
Freaky is a horror-comedy that mashes up the slasher film with a body swap comedy. What was created was a wonderfully self-aware film that pays tribute to both genres. Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is a quiet and bullied high school student. She lives in the small American town of Blissfield. But Blissfield has been plagued by […]